In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die -- from starvation, or disease, or even execution.In Order to Live is the ...Show more
Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love by MURAKAMI HARUKI
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet. Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans ...Show more
The Jane Austen Remedy by Ruth Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen's novels.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the 2019 Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you l ...Show more
Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life by Anne Glenconner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Bracing honesty, rare insight, and hilarious revelations from the author of the smash-hit New York Times bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting as she shares everything she's learned from her extraordinary and unexpected life. Lady in Waiting brought us royal magic, beguiling insight, and jaw-dropping stori ...Show more
The Mirror and the Palette - Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
Hell On The Way To Heaven by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"An Australian mother's love, the power of the Catholic Church and the fight for justice over child sexual abuse. Chrissie and Anthony Foster were like any other young family, raising their three daughters in suburban Melbourne with what they hoped were the right values. Chrissie could not have known th ...Show more
The Price of Fortune: The untold story of being James packer by Damon Kitney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan ...Show more
Soar by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fifty years since he stepped into his first ballet class, McAllister reflects on his dance journey, his relationships, embracing his sexuality, and the combination of talent, timing and sheer perseverance that gave rise to his transformative career.