Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation by Hannah Gadsby
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Gadsby's unique stand-up special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability to create both tension and laughter in a single moment. But while her worldwide fame might have looked like an overnight sensation, her path from open mic to the global s ...Show more
Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"GIRL, INTERRUPTED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 'Spellbinding' - JENNETTE MCCURDY 'It's extraordinary... make your way to this book.' - SARAH JESSICA PARKER Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartl ...Show more
The Writing On The Wall by Juliet Rieden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1938, as Hitler's troops are marching on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but destroy their family. Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s wondering why she had so few relatives, why her family ...Show more
Mrs Kelly: the astonishing life of Ned Kelly's mother by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The astonishing life of Ned Kelly's mother While we know much about the iconic outlaw Ned Kelly, his mother Ellen Kelly has been largely overlooked by Australian writers and historians - until now, with this vivid and compelling portrait by Grantlee Kieza, one of Australia's most popular biographers.Whe ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell'I was entranced' Cathy ...Show more
The Girl Who Beat Isis: My Story by Farida Khalaf & Andrea C. Hoffman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and the boys of her village, including her father and bro ...Show more
You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. What matters most in life? How do you build a happy life when terrible things happen? What is left behind when you lose the person you love the most? One night last winter, Antoine Leiris was at home looking after his son while his wife, Helene, was at a concert with friend ...Show more
Rebellious Daughters by Maria Katsonis & Lee Kofman (edited by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite. In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia's most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories of rebellion and independence as they defy the ex ...Show more
Choosing Hope: The Inspiring True Story of the Teacher Who Saved the Lives of Her Children at Sandy Hook Elementary School by Kaitlin Roig-Debellis; Robin Gaby Fisher (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
. . . dramatically conveys how swiftly an 'ordinary' life can change, but also probes the depth of the struggle to rise from despair to hope.' - Publishers Weekly Kaitlin Roig - Debellis is the first - grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved her entire class of fifteen six - and - seven ...Show more
My Paris Dream by Kate Betts
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Kate Betts graduated from Princeton, she was desperate to stand on her own two feet and discover who she really was.Kate decided to take a leap of faith and move to Paris where she would throw herself into Parisian culture, master French and a find a job that would give her a reason to stay.After a ...Show more
Paul Keating by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Drawing on extensive interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior's rise to power, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the last days of the Whit ...Show more
Albanese Telling it Straight by Karen Middleton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The moving personal story behind the very public political face of Labor's Anthony Albanese, written with the cooperation of Albo. As much a window on the recent turbulent years of politics u from the man who was often in the middle of the room where everything was happening, and who became the Deputy P ...Show more