Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia's most beloved performers, tells her story.In this extraordinary memoir, Magda describes her journey of self-discovery from a suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father's ...Show more
Blood, Sweat and Steel by Curtis McGrath
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From Afghanistan to gold - an extraordinary tale of tragedy, resilience and triumph In 2012, combat engineer Curtis McGrath was serving in the Australian army in Afghanistan when, in the line of duty, he stepped on a mine. Seriously injured but still conscious and aware he'd bleed out and die within min ...Show more
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz - The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas c ...Show more
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her siste ...Show more
More Rules for Life: A special volume for enthusiasts by Kitty Flanagan
$12.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The world has changed and new rules are required. More Rules for Life is the perfect companion to Kitty Flanagan's bestselling 488 Rules for Life. More Rules for Life is the latest collection from comedian and rule-maker Kitty Flanagan. Following the success of her bestseller, 488 Rules for Life, Kitty ...Show more
Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea by Marie Munkara
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving, Of Ashes and Rivers That Run to the Sea is a fearless account of being a young woman caught between two worlds. An old baptismal card falling out of a book changed the course of 28-year-old Marie Munkara's life forever. Until that moment she had no idea of ...Show more
Before & Laughter by Jimmy Carr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians - for anyone who feels stuck in a rut but doesn't have the tools or self-belief to shake things up*In his mid-twenties, Jimmy was bored, boring, unfulfilled and underachieving. He wasn't exactly depressed, but he was very sa ...Show more
The Dancer: A Biography for Philippa Cullen by Evelyn Juers
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The new book by prize-winning biographer Evelyn Juers, author of The House of Exile and The Recluse, portrays the life and background of a pioneering Australian dancer who died at the age of twenty-five in a remote town in India.A uniquely talented dancer and choreographer, Philippa Cullen grew up in Au ...Show more
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. 'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.' NICK CAVE On T ...Show more
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son -- by the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes'Consistently illuminating... considered, compassionate and appreciative... Thi ...Show more
All Mixed Up by Jason Om
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Some secrets should never be kept -- a candid and heartfelt memoir about authenticity, difference, resilience, hope and love by an exciting new Australian voice.My family may have been all mixed up, but I discovered a love and a resilience that ran deeper than any of us could have imagined.When Jason Om ...Show more
The Girl Explorers - The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Jayne Zanglein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Never tell a woman where she doesn't belong. In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that women are not adapted to exploration, and that women and exploration do not mix. He obviously didn't know a thing abo ...Show more