The Rock - Through the Lens: His Life, His Movies, His World by Hiram Garcia
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Dynamic, funny, and inspiring photos of global entertainment icon, entrepreneur, and trailblazer, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, featuring twenty years' worth of candids, family moments, and snapshots from film and television sets, many never-before-seen. Hiram Garcia, who has known Dwayne Johnson since col ...Show more
Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
$54.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The long-awaited, enormously entertaining memoir by one of the great artists of our time. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a ...Show more
Eat A Peach - A Memoir by David Chang; Gabe Ulla
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'David Chang writes about a chef's life in a way that feels completely fresh. The recipes, including those from the ginger-scallion noodles and roasted pork belly served at Noodle Bar, are almost perks; this would be a great read even without them.' The New York Times In 2004, David Chang opened a noodl ...Show more
The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto by Victoria Schofield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A memoir of Victoria Schofield's thirty-year friendship with her Oxford contemporary, Benazir Bhutto. who rose to be one of the most powerful politicians in Asia, set against a backdrop of seismic political events. A memoir of Victoria Schofield's thirty-year friendship with her Oxford contemporary, Ben ...Show more
My Invented Country - A Memoir by Isabel Allende
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language."--Entertainment Weekly The revered New York Times bestselling author of House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea ponders the elements that led to her becoming a writer, ...Show more
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to ...Show more
The Vagabonds - The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip by Jeff Guinn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A "fascinating slice of rarely considered American history" (Booklist)--the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thom ...Show more
Eating With My Mouth Open by Sam van Zweden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'To eat is to build upon our collective story. We use food to say, again and again, who we are.' Eating with My Mouth Open is food writing like you've never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food writers, reve ...Show more
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
$13.00 AUD
$19.99 (34% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reig ...Show more
Enough - How One Woman Moved from Silence to Rage to Finding Her Voice by Shauna M. Ahern
$38.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Like so many American women, Shauna M. Ahern spent decades feeling not good enough about her body, about money, and about her worth in this culture. For a decade, with the help of her husband, she ran a successful food blog, wrote award-winning cookbooks, and raised two children. In the midst of this, a ...Show more
Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays - Separating Art from Autobiography by Doris Alexander
$101.50 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This study draws on new and unprecedented research concerning the lives of Eugene O'Neill, his family, and his circle. It corrects and expands the biographical record on O'Neill, sharpens our understanding of his art, and distinguishes the man and his life more clearly than ever from the creations that ...Show more
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs by Sandra Hogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s. Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told' - Susan Johnson'It reads like the very best of spy thrillers.' - Matthew Condon'An intimate and compelling look at an ordinary family who happen to be ASIO agen ...Show more