Black Friend: Essays by Ziwe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The debut collection of personal essays by comedy's most iconic voice Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In Black Friend, she turns her incisive perspective on both herself and the culture at large. Throughout the book, ...Show more
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Oprah's Book Club
#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club 2016 Selection "Riveting...a worthy investment...this book has real wisdom."--New York Times Book Review "A book with so much painful truth packed into its pages that every person who's ever married or plans to marry should really give it a read." -- Chica ...Show more
High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's social life ever since she had her first sip of beer, at 13. She thought nothing could curb her love of big nights. And then c ...Show more
Butterfly on a Pin: A Memoir of Love, Despair and Reinvention by Alannah Hill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Raw and real and funny and sad - I could not put this book down' - Jane Kennedy'You might expect fluff and fashion ... what you get is harrowing, full-strength, funny and deeply satisfying - Zoë Foster BlakeUnflinching, funny, shocking, inspiring and tender: this is a story like no other.Alannah Hill ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
Against All Odds: The inside account of the Thai cave rescue and the courageous Australians at the heart of it by Richard Harris, Craig Challen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
‘I just want to warn you. You’re going to dive to the end of the cave. You’re going to see these kids. They’re all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you’re going to swim away, and they’re probably all going to die.’ In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between t ...Show more
This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL by Miriam Margolyes
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRYBAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treas ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life. Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Sean O'Hagan, it is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave's own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of faith, art, music, fr ...Show more
Life Keeps Me Dancing: 108 years well lived, grounded in creativity, adventure and love by Eileen Kramer
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'I am not old. I have just been here for a long time.' Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; ...Show more
Escape from Manus: The untold true story by Jaivet Ealom
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape from Australia's notorious offshore detention centre on Manus Island. In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar's brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed, and boarded a boat of asylum seekers bound for Australia. ...Show more
Daughter of The River Country by Dianne O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From a victim of the 'stolen generations' comes a remarkable memoir of abuse, survival - and ultimately hope.Born in country NSW in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her Aboriginal mother. Raised in the era of the White Australia policy, Dianne grows up believing her adoptive Irish mother ...Show more