A Very Private School by Charles Spencer
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an ant ...Show more
Paul Keating: the Big-Picture Leader by Troy Bramston
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Drawing on around 15 hours of new interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his extensive personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior's rise to power, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the ...Show more
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (updated edition) by David Marr
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
David Marr's explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.In March this year, the nation's most powerful Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was jailed for child sexual assault. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man, his career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power ...Show more
Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia's most beloved performers, tells her story.In this extraordinary memoir, Magda describes her journey of self-discovery from a suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father's ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick WhitePatrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogr ...Show more
Hello Beautiful - Scenes from a Life by Hannie Rayson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"I realise that, despite all the references to my longing to be a writer, two things are apparent. The first is that I don't actually do much writing; the second is that my teenage reflections display absolutely no talent for it. My Diary is prima facie evidence of self-delusion on a grand scale." A mem ...Show more
The Henson Case by David Marr
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The Australian Prime Minister called them 'absolutely revolting'. Their removal from a Sydney art gallery was hailed by the Daily Telegraphas a 'Victory for Decency'. Cate Blanchett and members of the arts community claimed charges laid over them would affect Australia's cultural reputation. Only now do ...Show more
Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"Every veteran has a story. Sometimes these stories become part of family folklore. Sometimes they are too terrible to speak of. In April 1943 Cyril Burcher bombed a German U-boat, killing its entire crew. Thirty years later, a letter arrived for him out of the blue from the daughter of the U-boat capta ...Show more
Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most powerful Catholic, has been found guilty of five sexual crimes against children.Updated edition. He is the most senior Catholic figure in the world to be charged by police and convicted of child sex offences. The abuse involved choirboys at Melbourne's St Patrick's ...Show more
Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic. At one point Cullen shot Jensen, in part to see how committed he was to the book. ...Show more
Ready for Absolutely Nothing by Susannah Constantine
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Rock stars to royalty, society to sobriety, get to know the real Susannah Constantine in the hottest memoir of the year'Sensational, juicy, gossipy, filthy and bravely honest in equal measure, Susannah Constantine's memoir is a rollicking romp through the upper middle classes' SUNDAY TIMES, 'BEST BIOGRA ...Show more
Turning the Tide by Michelle Ford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Against the backdrop of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, the 1980 Moscow Olympics was always going to be political. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser wanted Australia’s Olympic athletes to boycott the Games, in line with the USA, but many of the athletes had a different view and compe ...Show more