A Funny Life - The Autobiography by Michael McIntyre
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Michael McIntyre is a much-loved stand-up comedian, with sell-out international tours and the hugely popular television series Michael McIntyre’s Big Show and The Wheel. But the road to stardom was paved with near-disasters, as he hilariously recounts in his autobiography. Picking up where his first bo ...Show more
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Now a New York Times bestseller We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.Decades before the American Revoluti ...Show more
Pure Flame: On Mothers and Daughters by Michelle Orange
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Rich and moving' New York Times'A book that expands and breaks your heart' Adelle WaldmanA revelatory enquiry into selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling, and what it means to be a mother's daughterDuring one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors by Alison Weir
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: England's Medieval Queens Ser.
The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the subject of Alison's most successful book. The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens ...Show more
The Night of the Gun - A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. by David Carr
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The instant "New York Times" bestseller now in trade paperback: a "compelling tale of drug abuse, despair, and, finally, hope" ("Chicago Sun-Times"). - Critical and commercial phenomenon: "The" "Night of the Gun "hit bestseller lists thanks to" "a national tour and rave reviews from every major newspape ...Show more
The History of Bones - A Memoir by John Lurie
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie. In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly beca ...Show more
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her siste ...Show more
Living the Chateau Dream by Angel Strawbridge, Dick Strawbridge
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Category: Biography & Memoir
THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE MASSIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, A YEAR AT THE CHATEAU!In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom flat in East London for a derelict chateau in the Loire Valley.Where Sunday Times bestseller A Year at the ...Show more
Goddess - The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 50th anniversary of the iconic star's death She was born Norma Jeane but the world knew and loved her as Marilyn. Her life was one of unprecedented fame and private misery, her death a tragedy surrounded by mysteries. Dr ...Show more
Caught In The Act: A Memoir by Courtney Act by Courtney Act (Shane Jenek)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
As Courtney Act, Shane Jenek has built a career as a drag queen, spokesperson, advocate, singer and all around performer with a strong (and beautiful) voice and advocate for change. Courtney uses her dazzling commercial profile to open up positive conversations about gender, sexuality, body image and id ...Show more
Acting Up by Lynne McGranger
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
With humour, honesty and self-deprecating charm, one of Australia's best known TV actresses lifts the lid on life - both on-screen and off.
Baggage: Tales from a fully packed life by Alan Cumming
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
'No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritise it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something - an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person - you have merely deci ...Show more