Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell'I was entranced' Cathy ...Show more
Lady in Waiting - My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
**International Bestseller** **The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year** **One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020** An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The C ...Show more
Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
King of the Australian Coast by Marsden Hordern
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Phillip Parker King has been described as the greatest of Australia s early marine surveyors. But while the achievements of Cook and Flinders are widely known, this is the first telling of King s story.Unlike Cook and Flinders, King was Australian-born--the son of Philip Gidley King, governor of New So ...Show more
Michelle Obama - Becoming by Michelle Obama
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to the wonderful world of America's foremost humorist David Sedaris, where learning French, like life, is littered with idiosyncratic delight . . . 'The Italian was attempting to answer the teacher's latest question when the Moroccan student interrupted, shouting, "Excuse me, but what's an Easte ...Show more
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
Kathleen O'Connor of Paris by Amanda Curtin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1906, Kathleen O'Connor left conservative Perth, where her famous father's life had ended in tragedy. She had her sights set on a career in thrilling, bohemian Paris. More than a century later, novelist Amanda Curtin faces her own questions, of life and of art, as she embarks on a journey in Kate's f ...Show more
The Twat Files: A Hilarious Sort-Of Memoir of Mistakes, Mishaps and Mess-Ups by Dawn French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A hugely relatable, funny, honest and inspirational 'memoir of sorts' in which Dawn celebrates what it means to be gloriously, messily human. When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person. BUT. That kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual twa ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Young Hitler - The making of the fuhrer by Paul Ham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
WHEN ADOLF HITLER went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'. Twice decorated for bravery, the future dictator thrilled to battle, relished violence and was willing to give everything for his beloved Fatherland.He heard of Germany' ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more