Elizabeth: A Celebration in Photographs of Elizabeth II's Life & Reign by Jennie Bond
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General)
Fully revised and updated. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving monarch in British history, with a reign even longer than Queen Victoria. Her extraordinary life is expertly portrayed by Jennie Bond, former BBC royal correspondent, in this magnificent visually led biography. On February 6, 1952, Pr ...Show more
Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms by Margaret Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A fascinating portrait of one of Australia's most influential women Elected to federal parliament aged just twenty-eight, Tanya Plibersek has lived almost half her life in the public eye - and is the longest-serving woman in Australia's House of Representatives. But how much do we know about what drives ...Show more
Higher Sobriety: My Years Without Booze by Jill Stark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
What happened next? It's the question Jill Stark has been asked most often since the publication of her acclaimed memoir, High Sobriety.As one of the original pioneers in the 'quit lit' space, Jill started a national conversation about the role of alcohol in our lives, turning the lens on her own rocky ...Show more
Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for the first time by Pamela Anderson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"To live, And dream, Is a wicked dance. My dreams often come true- A curse, And a blessing." Pamela Anderson is an icon: an international superstar whose blonde bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered by Playboy during a football game in her native Canada, Pamela was quickly launched i ...Show more
This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL by Miriam Margolyes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRYBAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treas ...Show more
A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening by Ashleigh Wilson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
Big Mouth by Matt Preston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A rock n roll memoir of death, guns and the occasional scandal. For a man who has been in the public eye for a decade or more, Matt Preston has been very quiet about his past and private life. Now, in Big Mouth, he opens up for the first time in a story that, like Matt himself, is joyous, funny and lar ...Show more
Heartstrong by Ellidy Pullin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'If not with you, then for you.' It was a perfect Wednesday morning when Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin kissed his partner, Ellidy, goodbye to go spearfishing. Most days Ellidy would go to the beach too, but that day she didn't. Later, there was a knock at the door. A man had been found unconscious on the ocean ...Show more
The Guy Who Decides: Australia's funniest social media sensation by REES JIMMY
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Have you ever wondered who made the call on imperial measurements, collective nouns for animals, horoscopes and Olympic sports? What were they thinking? And why do parents insist on naming their children after cities, cars and smoothie ingredients (Paris, Mercedes and Kale, we're looking at you )? The G ...Show more
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of Peter the Great. A volatile feudal tsar with a taste ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
big beautiful female theory (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Eloise Grills
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
big beautiful female theory is an anarchic and vital memoir unlike anything you've read before. Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, it is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society's expectations. With breathtaking honesty an ...Show more