Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart by Judith Lucy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Judith Lucy was just Great! Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, she was menopausal, she suspected her career was in the shitter and it seemed like the world was going to hell in a handbasket – but she was about to move in with the love of her life! Everything would work out ...Show more
Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Helen Elliott’s Eleven Letters to You is a profoundly original memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, before feminism. This sparkling, wonderfully absorbing book is written in the form of eleven letters to those neighbours, relatives, friends, ...Show more
I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was by Ruby Wax
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An honest and refreshing new exploration of mental health from mindfulness expert Ruby Wax. Bestselling author and comedian, Ruby Wax, takes a candid, dark, and witty dive through her life and personal experiences with mental health, providing solace and advice for anyone out there who realises they ar ...Show more
Fat Girl Dancing by Kris Kneen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"How does a person come to know that they are different from the children around them? To measure themselves against a set normal and find themselves lacking? When did I know that I was plump, and then fat? Fat child, self-denying adolescent, hungry young woman; a body now burgeoning uncontrolled into m ...Show more
Still Standing by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
There are few more moving experiences than for the silenced to be heard. Chrissie Foster is the mother who brought the rich and powerful Catholic Church to its knees over its global abuse of children, including two of her daughters, Emma and Katie. Like the Boston Globe's Spotlight team, she built an un ...Show more
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more
Vegemite: The True Story of the Man Who Invented an Australian Icon by Jamie Callister
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Published to coincide with Vegemite's 100th anniversary, the fascinating true story of the man who invented Australia's most enduring cultural icon, fully revised and updated. 'An amazing yarn' Sydney Morning Herald Today Vegemite is recognised around the world, but when the salty black paste was first ...Show more
Heartbake: A bittersweet memoir by Charlotte Ree
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'The discovery of cooking for others again ignited something in me-it gave me meaning, and in some ways it brought me back to life.' In this heartfelt memoir of food, love and self-discovery, Charlotte Ree takes us along her journey of learning to cook in the wake of a divorce that left her feeling uns ...Show more
Reckless by Marele Day
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Jean Kay, my skipper, fellow adventurer, my friend. My brother. Jean Kay, soldier-of-fortune, opportunist, embezzler, hijacker. In her youth, amidst the throes of a reckless grief, aspiring Australian writer Marele Day is caught up in a shipwreck adventure and forges an unlikely bond with an internatio ...Show more
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"A pitch-perfect memoir: stylish, erudite, touchingly honest and darkly funny." Jacqueline Wilson"We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting ro ...Show more
Above All Else by Dan Brodsky-Chenfield
$28.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
World famous competitive skydiver and coach Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld presents proven tools and techniques for success and explains how they can be used in everyday life. Dan survived a plane crash from which sixteen of the twenty-two people on board were killed. He was left critically injured and woke up fr ...Show more
Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 by Deborah Levy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. Itis a work of ...Show more