True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
Son of the Brush: A memoir by Tim Olsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
Between Me and Myself: A Memoir of Murder, Desire and the Struggle to Be Free by Sandra Willson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On 29 April 1959, Sandra Willson, a twenty-year-old trainee psychiatric nurse from Paddington, devastated by the break-up of her relationship with her female lover, left her home and hailed a taxi. Asking the driver to take her to a remote location on the coast near Cronulla, she waited until he had sto ...Show more
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening What makes them powerful The reason ...Show more
Hard Knocks by Fiona Scott-Norman (editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Hard Knocks is a collection of interviews by Fiona Scott-Norman with famous and successful Australians who had a toughtime at school - either being bullied, not fitting in, or facing other adversities.The concept for the book is simple: many of the most popular Australians today were outsiders when they ...Show more
Against All Odds: The inside account of the Thai cave rescue and the courageous Australians at the heart of it by Richard Harris, Craig Challen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
‘I just want to warn you. You’re going to dive to the end of the cave. You’re going to see these kids. They’re all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you’re going to swim away, and they’re probably all going to die.’ In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
My Sweet Guillotine by Jayne Tuttle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author of Paris or Die, returns to Paris with My Sweet Guillotine. In the wake of a bizarre, shocking accident in Paris, Jayne finds herself back in the city in a strange limbo. Ignoring the past, she tries to move forward. There is theatre. Love. New friendships. A new neighb ...Show more
Bush School by Peter O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond. There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang e ...Show more
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
Prehistoric Joy by Andrew Sneddon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Hailed as a real-life Boy Swallows Universe, a 'bold, brutal and unforgettable' memoir of growing up in the criminal underbelly of Queensland's Gold Coast in the 1980s.If being powerless makes you jumpy, then being poor makes you envious. You notice when other people are happy and you become keenly awar ...Show more
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis ...Show more
An Unlikely Prisoner: How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar’s Most Notorious Jail by Sean Turnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
How hope became one man's closest companion in his darkest hour. 'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar's terrifying Insei ...Show more