I Came All This Way to Meet You - Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity--and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg--des ...Show more
The Go-Between - A Portrait of Growing up Between Different Worlds by Osman Yousefzada
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An enlightening memoir of living between worlds and learning how to find one's own - from the artist and fashion designer.
AND THEN WHAT?: Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy by Catherine Ashton
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
What does a diplomat actually do? Ashton takes us behind the scenes of major crises in Ukraine, Iran and more to reveal how modern- day diplomacy really works.So much of modern-day diplomacy still takes place behind closed doors, away from cameras and prying eyes. So what does this vital role really loo ...Show more
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life by Mason Ball
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first biography of iconic cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the side-splitting ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the wor ...Show more
The Courage to Forgive by Danny and Leila Abdallah
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How a family came back from the unthinkable and forgave the driver who killed three of their children. Nothing forewarned Danny and Leila Abdallah of the tragedy they would face on 1 February 2020. In one of the most horrific road accidents in Australian memory, three of their children and their young ...Show more
Directions to Myself by Heidi Julavits
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this honest and provocative book Heidi Julavits examines gender, power and sexuality, engaging with a debate which has never been more relevant than it is today. How can a mother know her son will not grow up to be a rapist? How can a mother know her son will not be falsely accused of being a rapist ...Show more
The Times Lives Less Ordinary by Nigel Farndale (Editor); Times Books (Editor)
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 85 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. Be they dons, pop stars, vicars, MPs, rugby players or aristocrats, each has marched to the beat of their own drum and led a life far from ordina ...Show more
Ghostland: in Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 'A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature' Philip Hoare 'An exciting new voice' Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned ...Show more
Tiny Love Stories by Daniel Jones; Miya Lee
37.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Tiny Love Stories features a curated collection of 175 moving, inspirational, uplifting, heartwarming, and heartbreaking love stories, handpicked by the editors of the New York Times 'Modern Love' column from the thousands of submissions they receive. From the loss of a parent and the end of a marri ...Show more
The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with My Grandmother's Ashes by Krissy Kneen
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In her 2010 memoir, Affection, Krissy Kneen introduced readers to her unique family and the towering matriarchal figure of her grandmother. Stern, domineering, fiercely loving, Lotty Kneen-born Dragitsa-was always tight-lipped about her early life and family history. She rebuffed Krissy's curiosity and ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road - Galvin Family by Robert Kolker
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARPEOPLE'S #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNamed a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Slate, Smithsonian, The New ...Show more
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World War II In 1937, as the Nazi Party tightened its grip on the city of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), Justus Rosenberg's pa ...Show more