A Brilliant Life : My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Rachelle Unreich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General)
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series by Dolly Alderton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting du ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
Stay True by Hua Hsu
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone 'One of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever, right up there with Patti Smith’s Just Kids’ – The Atlantic When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkele ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism – Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has led a remarkable life. Power of Balance is a landmark memoir that explores the events and ideas that have inspired and provoked her in working to create change. One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as p ...Show more
A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
With insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and inc ...Show more
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER, OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN HARDBACK TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR 'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' Red PSYCHIATRIST- So how can I help you?ME- I don't know, I'm ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
Meghan and Harry: The Real Story: Persecutors or Victims (Updated & expanded edition) by Lady Colin Campbell
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General)
Meghan and Harry The Real Story: Persecutors or Victims presents the reader with a strikingly forthright analysis of what happens when a vulnerable male, raised in the traditions of the Old World and protected by a lifetime of privilege, falls head over heels in love with a steely and ambitious doyenne ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more