Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is Martha Wainwright’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more. Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-accla ...Show more
Redemption Road: A Thug's Journey Towards Enlightenment by Luke Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Struggling to stay alive with a gaping wound across my back, I desperately wondered how I got to this point. My knife-wielding opponent was not the attacker... He'd been defending himself against an ego-driven, menacing thug who was intent on hurting him. That thug was me. In a hole of anxiety and depre ...Show more
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper and wearing a mask - or not - was a decision mostly made on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy Go Lucky opens, h ...Show more
Mackie and Jack: They married in wartime and said goodbye by Jan William Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A true and moving story of love, war, courage and indomitable spirit… One day the tall, gaunt father came to the house with the new wife and called the puzzled seven-year-old to him. She had never seen him before… ‘I am your father and you will call me Father, and this is your new mother and you will ca ...Show more
The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The unforgettable memoir that redefines ‘she’ll be right’. What’s it like to grow up in an Aussie family that has a man of every flavour? A bank robber, an infamous sports umpire, several different breeds of drug addict (collect the whole set!), a roster of crafty swindlers, an attempted murderer and th ...Show more
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage classics
Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, this memoir is about the authors childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. It also depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distan ...Show more
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to each role co ...Show more
At War with My Father: Fred Howe: Prisoner of War by Lynette Ramsay Silver
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It is June 2008, and I am on a hillside overlooking the NSW country town of Boorowa. It is a long time since I felt any need to visit the cemetery, but today I have come to talk to my father. My research on the notorious Burma-Thai railway, where he was a POW, has brought me to this moment. For the past ...Show more
Hook, Line and Sinner by Tom Nash
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fuelled by Tom 'Hookie' Nash's dark humour and razor-sharp wit, Hook, Line & Sinner is an 'anti-inspirational' take on disability, a wild ride of survival and a case study in redefining life's limitations on your own terms. Tom 'Hookie' Nash has spent his adult life mesmerising audiences around the ...Show more
The Map of William by Michael Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Western Australia, 1909. William Watson's beloved father is set on an expedition to the north-west to map water sources in the Pilbara. Invited along, fifteen-year-old William embarks on the outback journey of a lifetime.At sea and on land, William will forge lasting friendships with his fellow travelle ...Show more
Weatherboard and Iron - Politics, the bush and me by Barnaby Joyce
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Barnaby Joyce is one of Australia's most recognisable and divisive politicians of the modern era. A former Leader of the Australian National Party,and the Deputy Prime Minister between 2016 and 2018, Joyce's world came crashing down around himin spectacular fashion this year when it was revealedthat he ...Show more
More Letters of Note : Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters. These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard Burton's fa ...Show more