A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more
I Had a Father in Karratha by Annette Trevitt
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
I Had a Father in Karratha tracks a daughter's epic undertaking to honour her father while cleaning up his mess and, ultimately, laying him to rest. This is a fly-in fly-out marathon about commitment, responsibility, doggedness and love. What happens when your father dies and he's in the Pilbara, 4500 ...Show more
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, from the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award-winning author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your Service. Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find him ...Show more
Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband: A memoir of a whirlwind romance gone wrong by Kerstin Pilz
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A wise and witty memoir about having to care for the very person who has hurt you the most. Perfect for fans of Kathy Lette and Elizabeth Gilbert. Kerstin is childless by choice and married to her job when Gianni, a charming Italian, turns her life into a champagne-coloured fairy tale. Soon after their ...Show more
I'm Liz Hayes by Liz Hayes
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Liz Hayes has graced our television screens for more than four decades. Millions of Australians kicked off their weeks with Liz co-hosting Channel 9's Today show, and now for over 25 years have settled into their Sunday nights to watch her investigative journalism on 60 Minutes. From camping in grizzly ...Show more
The Promised Party - Kahlo, Basquiat and Me by Jennifer Clement
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Growing up in '60s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo's house. It was an unorthodox and bohemian childhood, living alongside artists, communists, revolutionaries and poets, and one that allowed an awakening of creative freedom and curiosity about the world. Leaving behind the ...Show more
Muster Dogs From Pups to Pros by Lisa Millar
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How ten dogs stole the hearts of millions and changed lives forever, for fans of the TV show now streaming on Netflix and ABC iView When Muster Dogs first hit screens in 2022, viewers were enchanted. Five lively kelpie pups adopted into farming homes across Australia and put on an intensive training pr ...Show more
Model Minority Gone Rogue: How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script by Qin Qin
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Lisa Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don't rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority. But doing everything right? It made her lost and miserable. So she decided to take a spectacular ri ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: 'Funny, fascinating and compelling' The Times by Matthew Perry
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundsta ...Show more
Private Equity by Carrie Sun
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduat ...Show more