Mothering Heights: A year of joy and survival in the trenches of early parenthood by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A comedy, tragedy and farcical romp all rolled into one, Mothering Heights is a year-in-the-life love story about becoming a mother from the hilarious author of Pardon My French, Rachael Mogan McIntosh. For fans of ABC TV's The Letdown, Nina Stibbe's Love, Nina and Alison Pearson's I Don't Know How She ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty w ...Show more
Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself. For decades, Rebel Wilson had single-mindedly focused on her career, making a name for herself through her ic ...Show more
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor by Roger Lewis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsom ...Show more
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
‘Don’t think, dear’ said Balanchine. ‘Just do.’ For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient and feminine. It is the crucible of womanhood, together with the harassment, physical abuse and eating disorders endemic at top schools. Can we abide this in a post # ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Conundrum by Jan Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and discoveries. On first publication in 1974, the book ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Breath: A Triumphant Story of Hope and Survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A triumphant story of hope and survival I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and faced a ...Show more
Some People Want to Shoot Me by Madelaine Dickie, Wayne Bergmann
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has dedicated his life to his community, in this moving memoir of living between two cultures. As a Nyikina man who straddles both traditional and modern cultures, Wayne Bergmann has faced criticism and condemnation ...Show more
Hana: The audacity to be free by Hana Assafiri
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'I am every woman and every woman's quest to be free.' Hana Assafiri is a much loved and revered social activist and radical entrepreneur. Through the medium of food and dining in her now-renowned Moroccan Soup Bar, Hana has worked tirelessly to rectify the systemic and social barriers to women's empow ...Show more
Inside Out: A Story of Sport, Family and Self by Erin Phillips
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Inside Out is the inspiring memoir from one of Australia’s all-time sporting champions: AFLW icon and basketball legend Erin Phillips. ‘When I was born, people felt sorry for my dad because he didn’t have a son to play footy someday.’ The AFLW changed the face of Australian sport forever, and Erin ...Show more