The Quiz Masters: Inside the World of Trivia, Obsession and Million Dollar Prizes by Brydon Coverdale
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'The Shark' reveals the hidden stories and winning strategies from the world of quiz shows. 'This romp through the world of TV quizzes is "F for Fourier Series" Fantastic!' ADAM SPENCER 'Australian quiz culture has found its Herodotus* in Brydon Coverdale. And if you say otherwise, par-bouw! [*Father of ...Show more
Merle Thornton: Bringing the Fight by Merle Thornton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An engaging, lively, provocative and, above all, inspiring memoir from one of our home-grown, unsung feminist heroes, Merle Thornton, who has lived a life full of daring, defiance and activism. Merle Thornton is one of Australia's most delightful, formidable and game-changing pioneering feminists - ...Show more
The Tap Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life -- Without the Boring Bits by Paul Hogan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The icon and legend at last tells his story his way - without the boring bits Paul Hogan first appeared on our screens in 1971 as a 'tap dancing knife thrower' on channel 9's New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a dare, but when the network's switc ...Show more
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its hone ...Show more
The Most Important Job In The World by Gina Rushton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Should we become parents? It's a question that forces us to reckon with what we love and fear most in ourselves, in our relationships, and in the world as it is now and as it will be. When Gina Rushton admitted she had little time left to make the decision for herself, the magnitude of the choice overwh ...Show more
Desire: A Reckoning by Jessie Cole
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
What to do with the intensity of longing that occasionally arises? Sometimes I hug my pup so hard he growls. When my pup growls, I realise I need to find some other way of letting off steam. It's easy to imagine I could just touch myself and be done with it, but no matter how many times I make myself co ...Show more
Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade, has to be Matthew Sturgis's Oscar' TLS Books of the Year A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARNOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'Simply the best modern biography of Wilde... A terrific achievement' Evening Standard 'Page-turning... Vivid and desperat ...Show more
Whisperings in the Blood by Shelley Davidow
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An exquisite, compelling story of courage, destiny and the search for home Lithuania, 1913. Haunted by memories of the pogroms, Jacob Frank leaves his village in the hope of a better life, and boards a ship bound for New York. Twenty - five years later, his daughter Bertha sets sail for South Africa to ...Show more
Shackleton's Epic by Tim Jarvis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A new edition to mark the centenary Ernest Shackleton's epic 1916 journey across 1300 kms of hostile ocean in a tiny, leaking boat and unmapped ice and snow to reach a rescue station by British-Australian explorer Tim Jarvis, who recreated 'Shackleton's Epic' in 2012 Sir Edmund Hilary called it the grea ...Show more
Understory by Inga Simpson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A memoir about staying in one place, told through trees, by the award-winning author of MR WIGG, NEST and WHERE THE TREES WERE. "The understorey is where I live, alongside these plants and creatures. I tend the forest, stand at the foot of trees and look up, gather what has fallen." Each chapter of this ...Show more
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. ...Show more
The Countess from Kirribilli by Joyce Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Elizabeth von Armin
She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and Europe. She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirl ...Show more