The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard by Nathan Hobby
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Novelist, journalist and activist Katharine Susannah Prichard won fame for vivid novels that broke new ground depicting distinctly Australian ways of life and work - from Gippsland pioneers and West Australian prospectors to Pilbara station hands and outback opal miners. Her prize-winning debut The Pion ...Show more
Apollo and Thelma by Jon Faine
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In Apollo and Thelma, broadcaster and lawyer Jon Faine shares a yarn that has enthralled him for forty years, taking him from Melbourne’s depression-era slums to the isolation of the outback. Apollo and Thelma have been a constant in Jon Faine’s life for decades. As a young lawyer, he was captivated b ...Show more
Beyond Possible: '14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible' Now On Netflix by Nimsdai Purja
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'An inspirational study in leadership and a powerful testament to the human spirit at its very best.' - Mail on Sunday'If you're going to get one book this year get Beyond Possible.' - Ant Middleton'The energy of the book gives it pace and you whip through, rather as Purja nips up verticals... Whether o ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
Renegades - Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen; Barack Obama
$75.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus con ...Show more
Home Truths: A Memoir (HB) by David Williamson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The definitive memoir of David Williamson, author of iconic dramas such as The Removalists, The Club, Don's Party, Emerald City and Travelling North , as well as more than fifty other plays, explores the life of the writer and the true stories and real lives that inspired his works. A powerful force in ...Show more
My Place by Sally Morgan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
My Place begins with Sally Morgan tracing the experiences of her own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - a ...Show more
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
How do you build up a sense of robust pride when your body has taught itself to be fearful? Fiona Murphy's memoir about being deaf is a revelation. Secrets are heavy, burdensome things. Imagine carrying a secret that if exposed could jeopardise your chances of securing a job and make you a social outca ...Show more
Happy (and Other Ridiculous Aspirations) by Turia Pitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
What's the greatest quest of humanity? No, it's not the Knights Templar, or life on Mars, or the perfect pair of jeans. I suspect that the number one thing you're searching for in your life is ... happiness. Why do I suspect that? Because thousands of people have told me. So, I set out on a dragon-free ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: good
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Growing Up
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more