Harold Holt: Always One Step Further by Ross Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
A revelatory biography of Harold Holt, the prime minister who helped create modern Australia Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was H ...Show more
Landlines by Raynor Winn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCE Global bestselling author Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain. As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and t ...Show more
Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbe ...Show more
Putting on a Show by Rob Mills
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
What's going on behind the bravado of the 'average Aussie bloke'? Following the untimely deaths of two friends, Rob Mills began questioning who he is as a person and a man. Soon his self-reflection shifted outwards, and he got to wondering how he fits into the category of 'Aussie bloke'. Who is the aver ...Show more
Best Laid Plans: On finding magic in life's most challenging moments by Georgie Abay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The magic is still there - you just need to look for it.From journalist and author Georgie Abay, Best Laid Plans is an honest and frank look at how modern life never goes according to plan, and what you can do about it. It's about learning to accept what we have, finding the joy in Plan B, and embracing ...Show more
It’s a Shame About Ray: A Memoir by Jonathan Seidler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY is an extraordinary and powerful memoir about family, love and the power of music. What tracks combine to make a family album? What do we carry from one generation to a next? What is the difference between leaning on and letting go? Blackly funny and frequently devastating, this m ...Show more
Bohemian Negligence by Bertie Blackman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The celebrated musician's evocative and intimate memoir of the magic and vulnerability of her bohemian childhood growing up as the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman. If you could touch your memories, how would they feel? My first memory of life is blurry. A blurry red dot. A strawberry in a thi ...Show more
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (HB) by Shaun Bythell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown. The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty ...Show more
Big Things Grow: A Memoir of Teaching on Country in Wilcannia by Sarah Donnelley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An inspiring memoir about passion, music and community within a remote outback town, from the winner of the 2020 ARIA Award for Music Teacher of the Year. This red dirt, it takes a hold of you. The blue skies, the sunsets, the starry nights, the river... Country holds onto you. Then you meet the people ...Show more
Reaching One Thousand: A Story of Love, Motherhood and Autism by Rachel Robertson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Deeply touching but never sentimental, this remarkable book is more than a story of one boy and his mother. It's a thoughtful meditation on the intricate workings of the human mind and heart.' TONI JORDANWhen Ben is a baby, Rachel puts his quirks down to eccentricity. He likes to count letterboxes; he ...Show more
Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller (HB) by Christine Courtenay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The long-awaited memoir of the late Bryce Courtenay - Australia's bestselling author - as told by his wife, Christine Courtenay. When Christine Courtenay began penning her own life story in lockdown last year, she found herself increasingly drawn into the story of her late husband and bestselling author ...Show more
Good Morning, Mr Sarra by Chris Sarra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"When Chris Sarra arrived as the first Aboriginal principal of Cherbourg State School, it was a time of high hopes but low expectations in Indigenous education. Over six years, he transformed the school into a national success story. Along the way, he battled the media, the education system and a cultur ...Show more