I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
56.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Brilliantly written, compulsively readable and insightful' Pat Barker, author of The Silence of the Girls 'A first-class life and a rollicking read ... Close to a masterpiece' Sunday Times An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An ...Show more
Somewhere We Are Human - Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings by Reyna Grande; Sonia Guiñansaca; Viet Thanh Nguyen (Foreword by)
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"[These contributions] touch on so many different facets of the immigrant experience that readers will find much to ponder... [and] experience how creative writing enriches our understanding of each other and our lives." -Booklist Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen A uniqu ...Show more
The Islander by Chris Blackwell with Paul Morley
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The definitive autobiography by renowned Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, looking back across his phenomenal life and career. As the founder of Island Records, fabled music producer Chris Blackwell has discovered and worked with some of the most important musicians of the second half of the twent ...Show more
Too Late to Turn Back: Barbara and Graham Greene in Liberia by Barbara Greene
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'It was stimulating and exciting, and I wrote down that hewas the best kind of companion one could have for a tripof this kind. I was learning far more than he realized.' It had been Graham Greene's idea to explore tropical West Africa. The map of Liberia was virtually blank, the interior marked 'cannib ...Show more
In My Grandfather's Shadow: A story of war, trauma and the legacy of silence by Angela Findlay
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fusing memoir, psychology and a historical detective story, a powerful exploration of how trauma can be handed down through the generations.Having wrestled for decades with an inexplicable sense of guilt, Angela Findlay eventually turned to her German roots in the hope of finding answers. There, she dis ...Show more
Provocateur: A Life of Ideas in Action by Clive Hamilton
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Austral ...Show more
A Boy and his Bear by Gregory Ladner
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this raw and hilarious memoir, a boy of humble beginnings in working-class Melbourne goes from dressing up his teddy to designing for Melbourne's high society. Gregory Ladner lifts the lid on a world of gorgeous women, glamourous gowns and salacious secrets. It's a rags-to-riches story - without the ...Show more
Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Any fool can confess. It's the rare writer who reveals, and Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation." - MARLON JAMES, author of Moon Witch, Spider King Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar b ...Show more
River of Fire - My Spiritual Journey by Helen Prejean
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"River of Fire is Sister Helen's story leading up to her acclaimed book Dead Man Walking--it is thought-provoking, informative, and inspiring. Read it and it will set your heart ablaze!"--Mark Shriver, author of Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis The nation's foremost leader in efforts to ...Show more
Esmond and Ilia - An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
47.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
By one of the finest English writers of our time, a luminous memoir that travels from southern Italy to the banks of the Nile, capturing a lost past both personal and historical. Marina Warner's father, Esmond, met her mother, Ilia, while serving as an officer in the British Army during the Second World ...Show more
Try Not to Think of a Pink Elephant: Stories about OCD by Martin Ingle, Dani Leever, Patrick Marlborough, Katharine Pollock, Sienna Rose Scully
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Try Not to Think of a Pink Elephant is a collection of real-life stories about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Contributors are Martin Ingle on OCD and sexual intimacy; Dani Leever on contamination-based OCD; Patrick Marlborough on living with OCD in NYC; Katharine Pollock on over-achievement ...Show more
Cells: Memories for my mother by Gavin McCrea
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, 'Jesus, Mum, not this again,' and she says, 'What again?' and I say, 'Town is shut down,' and while she can see I am upset and wants not to upset me li ...Show more