Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
‘A wake-up call … These women’s stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.’ Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has worke ...Show more
Riding with Giants by Peter Holmes à Court
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 2011, international businessman Peter Holmes Court left the executive world and found himself living deep in rural France with only his seven-year-old twin girls for company. Peter was struggling as a single father in a foreign country - unsettled by the sudden move away from a traditional job, and c ...Show more
Jackie As Editor: The Literary Life Of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Greg Lawrence
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the tycoon's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over just as equally an important stage in her life: her almost two-decade-long career as a b ...Show more
Joy of Money, The by Kate McCallum; Julia Newbould
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Money isn’t just about money. It’s about security. It’s about choices - to live our lives the way we want. It’s about everything money enables you to do and just as importantly what it allows you not to do. Money is complex. Women know that they need to be smart about money, but are often stopped short: ...Show more
Unfinished Business - Life As a Senator by Derryn Hinch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Derryn Hinch made headlines in 2016 when he went from media personality to Victorian Senator at the head of a new political party and made a lasting impact on the political landscape. This is an unflinchingly honest account of his last two years as a senator, before he lost his seat in the 2019 election ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me; an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
Inferno: A Memoir by Catherine Cho
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"My psychosis, for all its destruction and wrath, was a love story. When Catherine left London for the US with her husband James, to introduce her family to their newborn son Cato, she could not have envisaged how that trip would end. Catherine would find herself in an involuntary psych ward in New Jers ...Show more
Ellis Rowan: A Life in Pictures by Christine Morton-Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ellis described the fungi:Growing, they look like dolls dressed up in fluted lace petticoats … Some are apple green, others mauve; one is black, and another has a scarlet cap. They stand high on long white stems, and the fungus closely resembles exquisite lace. In her 70s, artist and naturalist Ellis Ro ...Show more
Craft For A Dry Lake by Kim Mahood
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
Kim Mahood takes us back to the Australian Outback of her youth. In this award-winning memoir, she explores her relationship with her father, her art and the places where she grew up, examining how a settler population relates to history and to land.
The Snowy: A History by Siobhán McHugh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Snowy - A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels. This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was ...Show more
Perfect Sound Whatever: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by James Acaster
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The brand new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author of Classic Scrapes, undercover cop, receiver of cabbages. PERFECT SOUND WHATEVER is a love letter to the healing power of music, and how one man's obsessive quest saw him defeat the bullshit of one year with the beauty of anothe ...Show more
Notes From An Apocalypse - A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready. They are environment ...Show more