A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work by Bernadette Brennan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Helen Garner is one of Australia's most important, and some would say, most admired living writers. That admiration is inspired by a sense that she is honest, authentic and fearless in the pursuit of her craft. But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the ru ...Show more
A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank by Nir Baram
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Award-winning journalist and author Nir Baram spent a year and a half travelling around the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In this fascinating recount of that journey, Baram navigates the conflict-ridden regions and hostile terrain to speak with a wide range of people, among them Palestinian-Israeli citi ...Show more
The Good Girl of Chinatown by Chang Jenevieve
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Serve it piping hot, And what have you got? A burlesque - A Shanghai burlesque show! From the claustrophobia of Sydney suburbia to the grim austerity of East London, Jenevieve Chang has been running away for as long as she can remember. Now - along with thousands of other Westerners trying to escape the ...Show more
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned.Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This is ...Show more
A Life Underwater by Charlie Veron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Hailed by David Attenborough, proclaimed a second Charles Darwin, John 'Charlie' Veron almost didn't become a scientist. Disheartened at school, by chance he won a scholarship to a university where he could indulge his passion for the natural world. It was scuba diving that returned him to his childhood ...Show more
AJ: How Alan Jones Climbed to the Top of Formula One by Alan Jones; Andrew Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Few names in international motorsport are treated with the same reverence as Alan Jones. When he speaks, they listen.He is one of only two Australians to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, and the first driver to do it for the now famous Williams team. His efforts brought Formula One to Au ...Show more
Under the Same Sky by Shamsalipoor, M; Jafari, M; James Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
At seventeen, all Mojgan Shamsalipoor wanted was to be safe from physical and sexual abuse, go to school, and to eventually marry for love. In Iran, she was denied all of this. Milad Jafari was a shy teenage boy who found his voice as a musician. But the rap music he loved was illegal in his country. Al ...Show more
The Dust of Uruzgan by Fred Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Fred Smith has been described as 'Australia's secret weapon' in international diplomacy. As a career diplomat, he served in Afghanistan during the time Australian Defence Forces were engaged in our 'longest war' against Taliban insurgents. It was Fred's second career as a musician that came to the fore ...Show more
Adult Fantasy: My Search for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Supposedly Adult Milestones by Briohny Doyle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
'I pictured myself a wine-dark streak in a TV desert, ears too full of the summer wind to hear that ominous ticking in the sky- the sound of a cultural clock counting me out of youth.'Briohny Doyle turned thirty without a clear idea of what her adult life should look like. The world she lived in, with i ...Show more
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story by Xaviera Hollander
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In the 1960s, as the sexual revolution was mushrooming, a beautiful young Dutch woman named Xaviera de Vries became the most powerful madam in New York City. In 1972, under the name Xaviera Hollander, she published a candid -read racy -account of her life behind the brothel door. The Happy Hooker shot s ...Show more
A Sea-Chase by Roger McDonald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Judy and Wes fall in love instantly and from the beginning are rarely apart. Yet they never really share their ambitions and passions with each other. Son of a preacher, Wes, is passionate about everything and a particular cause is the battle against the French nuclear testing in the Pacific. And boatbu ...Show more