Daring to Fly by Lisa Millar
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
There are significant moments in life that you only really appreciate long after they have passed ... And then there are moments that are so magnificent you understand in an instant that they need to be treasured because the universe is offering you something truly inspiring. Lisa Millar has spent her ...Show more
Childhood: Shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Awards 2023 by Shannon Burns
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Things may have been good for a while, but it didn't last: they argued fiercely and he left. Weeks later, she tracked him down and said she was pregnant. So he moved back in with her and they prepared themselves for parenthood. Eleven months later I was born. By the time my father discovered the decepti ...Show more
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
They called for a break, and Gambon magicked up a cigarette from out of his beard. He and I were often to be found outside the stage door, having 'a breath of fresh air', as we referred to it. There would be painters and plasterers and chippies and sparks, and among them all would be me and Dumbledore h ...Show more
Alone: The First Australian Woman to Row the Atlantic by Michelle Lee
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The inspiring true story of Michelle Lee, the first Australian woman to solo row the Atlantic Ocean. From the two-year preparation for launch to the 68-day, 5,000km journey across the Atlantic in 2018, Solo details the thrilling highs and challenging lows Michelle faced on the open waters. This is the s ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening by Ashleigh Wilson
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: srg22
A must-have for culture lovers, A Year with Wendy Whiteley sees the biographer and critic Ashleigh Wilson painting a portrait of the inimitable Wendy Whiteley-in her own words. We sit at the table, opposite each other, a tape recorder and a microphone between us, and I begin by saying that I don't want ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pr ...Show more
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two by David Sedaris
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between t ...Show more
The Wolf You Feed by Andrew Webster
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Celebrated sports journalist Andrew Webster has been on a mission to find the real Wayne Bennett. Over the course of two years, he has interviewed family, close friends, sworn enemies, colleagues, journalists, coaches and players, as well as Bennett himself, and trawled through acres of print and recor ...Show more
Finding My Bella Vita: A story of family, food, fame and working out who you are by Pia Miranda
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For years Pia Miranda has been stopped in the street by calls of, 'Found you!', forever linked to that character we all loved: Josie from Looking for Alibrandi. But playing Josie is only one small part of everything that has shaped the woman Pia has become. As a child, her Nonna would tell her stories ...Show more
Revolution: Ange Postecoglou: Close Up on Australia's Greatest Ever Football Manager by John Greechan
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Ange Postecoglou checked-in at Celtic Park he faced a momentous task as he sought to right the wrongs of a season to forget and restore the Hoops to the top of the Premier Division. Would a track record in Australian and Japanese football transfer to the unique landscape of the Scottish game? Woul ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more