Tchaikovsky: the Man Revealed by John Suchet
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's life - and premature death - has long been mythologised and misunderstood. John Suchet draws back the curtain to show us the real man behind the music.A shy, emotional child, Tchaikovsky came late to composing as a career. Doubting himself at every turn and keenly wounded by c ...Show more
Seeking Justice in Cambodia by Sue Coffey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Seeking Justice in Cambodiatells the powerful stories of the original founders of Cambodian human rights organisations and the younger generation of leaders, all of whom have fought tirelessly and with great conviction to achieve justice and human rights for all Cambodians. Sue Coffey decided to compile ...Show more
Brilliant Ideas from Wonderful Women by Aitziber Lopez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Discover the stories behind 14 of the twentieth century's key inventions in this fun and informative treasury of trailblazing women, who each made a unique contribution to the history of science and technology. Car heaters...Monopoly...Disposable diapers...The dishwasher...Kevlar...Maritime flares... A ...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
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A magical memoir from the New York Times bestselling writer about coming back from the brink of cancer and finding love second time around. If you pitched a movie about a woman in her seventies, recently widowed, who reconnects with a man she dated in college, leading to a month's long exchange of emai ...Show more
Runaways by Shaimaa Khalil, Shelley Davidow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both. ‘We don’t choose where we’re born. Geography ends up being everything.’ Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years ago in the Middle East when Shaimaa was Shelley’s student at the University of Qatar. Strangers in a strange land ...Show more
Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk by Tim Entwisle
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this wildly rich memoir, a director at some of the world's finest botanic gardens - Sydney, Kew and Melbourne - suggests such places are a cure for the world's ills.Tim Entwisle believes these sanctuaries can address the key threats of our time, such as climate change and plant extinction, while simu ...Show more
Stalking Claremont: Inside the hunt for a serial killer by Bret Christian
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
One young woman missing, two found murdered -- the gripping true story of Australia's longest-running homicide investigation ** Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True Crime 2021**In the early hours of January 27, 1996, after an evening spent celebrating at Club Bayview in the Perth suburb of Claremont, ...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
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