Small Memories by J. O. S. SARAMAGO
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Nevertheless, he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adol ...Show more
The Face Pressed Against a Window - A Memoir by Tim Waterstone
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Tim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstones empire that started with one bookshop in 1982. In this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the childhood experiences that led him to become an entrepreneur and outlines the business philosophy that allowe ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Stefan Zweig; Eden Paul (Translator); Cedar Paul (Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Stefan Zweig's classic biography of one of British history's most fascinating figures, rereleased in a new edition to tie in with launch of the major new Hollywood film, Mary Queen of Scots. From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent her life embroiled in power stru ...Show more
Deviation by Luce D'ERAMO (tr. Anne Milano Appel)
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Sometimes when you go astray and touch bottom, you finally come out on the other side.' Lucie was brought up by bourgeois parents as a passionate young fascist. At the age of eighteen, the headstrong protagonist decides to volunteer in the Nazi labour camps in Germany. Wishing to disprove what she sees ...Show more
Old Days, Old Ways: Stories from My Radio Days in the Bush by Alex Nicol
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Former ABC radio presenter Alex Nicol brings back to life the voices and stories of regional Australia from bygone days.
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Faber Social Ser.
SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR. ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR. MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.A year later, she was the guitar ...Show more
The Smallest Things - On the Enduring Power of Family by Nick Duerden
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Nick Duerden's grandparents were always just ... there. A mysterious yet unchanging presence in his life, a source of dutiful visits, birthday cards and carefully preserved rituals: lunches, dinners and endless card games. But, as he enters midlife, and his 98-year-old grandmother enters a care home, he ...Show more
Getting Off - One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction by Erica Garza
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Erica Garza has written a riveting, can't-look-away memoir of a life lived hardcore...In an era when predatory male sexual behavior has finally become a topic of urgent national discourse...Getting Off makes for a wild, timely read" (Elle). A fixation on porn and orgasm, strings of failed relations ...Show more
Untitled: the Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anna Pasternak
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3
Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life? Amid the cacophony of condemnation her story has become obfuscated. Untitled is an intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in British royal history. His charisma a ...Show more
Unmasked by Andrew Lloyd Webber
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3
"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre." One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Web ...Show more
Piety and Power - Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House by Tom LoBianco
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A revealing, in-depth biography of Mike Pence, the most secretive and ingratiating vice president in modern history, from a reporter with remarkable access. No journalist has covered Mike Pence for as long or as closely as Tom LoBianco. The seasoned political reporter was at the first campaign rally gov ...Show more
Little Labours by Rivka Galchen
16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies. 'Beguiling ... A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios ... A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.' Boston Globe One August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka ...Show more