Living in Hope by Frank Byrne; Frances Coughlan; Gerard Waterford
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Book one in the Inland Writers-short reads from the Centre of Australia. The killing times were barely over in the Kimberley. What I knew, even as a small boy, was that no-one argued with a whitefella. People talked in whispers. I was still so small. This is the story of the early years of my life. The ...Show more
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
$27.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the C te d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world and life they found there, they soon decided to uproot their lives in England and settle in Provence. They h ...Show more
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 4
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting h ...Show more
Diary of A Crap Housewife by Jessica Rowe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Why not cut the crap, take the pressure off and admit to the moments, days, weeks and months when the wheels of the household do fall off?
Breaking Badly by Georgie Dent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At 24, life was good for Georgie Dent. After graduating with top marks she landed her dream job at a prestigious Sydney law firm and moved in with a boyfriend she adored. She had the world at her feet and no right to break. But she did. Badly. Within a year Georgie was unemployed, back living with her p ...Show more
Every Day In Tuscany: Seasons of a Italian Life by Frances Mayes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this new memoir Frances Mayes offers her readers another deeply personal account of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since her previous memoirs appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless, unchanging beauty and simple pleasures of It ...Show more
Shine it Up by Jackie Gillies
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The inspirational story of Jackie Gillies - star of The Real Housewives of Melbourne and I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! - and one of Australia's most-sought after psychic mediums Sassy and adventurous, Jackie Gillies devours life with style and a smile - and lives it to the shiny brim. Well know ...Show more
Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of colour. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation's urban c ...Show more
Mrs Escobar - My Life with Pablo by Victoria Eugenia Henao
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
The closest you'll ever get to the most infamous drug kingpin in modern history, told by the person who stood by his side The story of Pablo Escobar, one of the wealthiest, powerful and violent criminals of all time has fascinated the world. Yet the one person closest to him has never spoken out - until ...Show more
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Portrait of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile him for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings but the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknow ...Show more
Dead Man Walking: The Murky World of Michael Mcgurk and Ron Medich by Kate McClymont
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
We all know Sydney is full of corruption and crime, but none of us expected to read about a Sydney businessman being shot in the back of his head, in his driveway, in front of his nine-year-old son, in Cremorne. Nor that the order would come from a Point Piper millionaire. Kate McClymont is Australia?s ...Show more
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981 1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lo ...Show more