Little Bird Told Me, A: Family Secrets, Necessary Lies by Russell Lynette
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A spare and painful true story of 'passing' as white - a hidden branch in the family tree of many white Australians.
Newsroom Confidential - Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life by Margaret Sullivan
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Sullivan remains the critic American journalism requires, a veteran practitioner with street cred, still in touch with the 'unaccountable joy' of reporting and writing that continues to draw talented young people to the field." --Steve Coll, The New York Times Book ReviewMargaret Sullivan began her car ...Show more
A Completed Life by Rodney Syme
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This book presents Dr Syme's views on the plight of people with dementia, and his suggestion for further legislative change. The book's title reflects a life that has been long, and where all that was possible has been achieved - and so is in a sense 'complete'. There follows consideration of the proble ...Show more
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scien ...Show more
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2019 * ONE OF TIME'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2019 * AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2019 "Her highly personal ...Show more
Personal Writings - Albert Camus by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most personal and lyrical writing, as he reflects on his identity and childhood in Algeria and celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Camus's first book and most openly autobiographical work, describes his early years in a work ...Show more
The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus Moore
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
__________'Essential reading' Rolling Stone'A must read. The best bit of literature currently out there on Kendrick Lamar' VICE__________Kendrick Lamar is at the top of his game.He has been described as perceptive, philosophical, unapologetic, fearless, and an innovative storyteller whose body of work h ...Show more
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes
24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'[Karnazes'] spirited memoir . . . can help mere mortals who want to push past their perceived limits or simply jump-start their sedentary lives.' - Chicago Tribune WHY DO YOU DO IT? HOW DO YOU DO IT? ARE YOU INSANE? Dean Karnazes is an internationally recognised endurance athlete who has pushed his bod ...Show more
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The true story of the woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The thrilling and previously unknown story of the woman who led the largest anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany. Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding sec ...Show more
Endurance: The Toby Price Story by Toby Price
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Two-time Dakar Rally champion, seven-time Finke Desert Race winner, FIM World Rally Champion and one of Australia's most popular motorsports athletes shares his inspiring story of every bump in the road on his way from a small farm in the Australian bush to the top of the podium in the world's most grue ...Show more
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An extraordinary gift of a book, a tender, searching meditation on love and loss and what it means to be human. I wept at it, laughed with it, was entirely fascinated by it. I emerged feeling a little as if the world around me had been made anew.' – Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk and Vesper Fl ...Show more