Firestorm by Greg Mullins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Combines thrilling stories of what it's like to be on the front line of Australia's first giga-fire with the hard truths of human-caused climate change, and what we do about it. Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Bl ...Show more
Rose: The Extraordinary Story of Rose de Freycinet: Wife, Stowaway and the First Woman to Record her Voyage Around the World by Suzanne Falkiner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dre ...Show more
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An extraordinary gift of a book, a tender, searching meditation on love and loss and what it means to be human. I wept at it, laughed with it, was entirely fascinated by it. I emerged feeling a little as if the world around me had been made anew.' – Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk and Vesper Fl ...Show more
Midnight Express by Billy Hayes, William Hoffer
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A true story of capture and incarceration; danger and degradation; hope and survival.
Mafioso: The bloody and compelling history of the Mafia - from its birth in Italy to its invasion of America and present-day global infiltration - told by an Australian undercover insider by Colin McLaren
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Mafia remains a subject of fascination around the world, depicted in books, films and TV series. But in his role as an undercover drug squad cop, Colin McLaren (bestselling author of JFK: The Smoking Gun) actually became a mafioso. After McLaren's extraordinary three years undercover in the Mafia, g ...Show more
Judith Wright: Selected Writings by Judith Wright; Georgina Arnott (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This first-ever collection of Australian poet Judith Wright's nonfiction is a compelling portrait of a prescient voice on modern Australia. Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of the best-known Australian poets of her generation. Born into a pioneering bush family, her commitments to environmental protect ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer It's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in ...Show more
Real Estate by Deborah Levy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'Following the international critical and commercial success of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and bo ...Show more
27 Letters to My Daughter by Ella Ward
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly charmin ...Show more
Everything Is True - A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic by Roopa Farooki
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES'The most powerful and evocative account of working through the pandemic that I have read' ADAM KAY'A laser guided insight into what's been happening in hospitals during the pandemic laying bare what we were all clapping for ... Beautiful ...Show more
Orphan Rock by Dominique Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney’s slums to the wide avenues of the City of Lights.The late 1800s was a time when women were meant to know their place. But when Bessie starts to work for Louisa Lawson at The D ...Show more
Childless: A Story of Freedom and Longing by Sian Prior
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A compelling, personal and fearless examination of a life lived without children of one's own, from Melbourne writer, broadcaster and journalist Sian Prior.I always wanted to have children. The earth might be in trouble-overpopulated, descending into ecological crisis-but I was always sure my kids would ...Show more