Ma'am Darling - 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
WINNER OF THE SOUTH BANK SKY ARTS LITERATURE AWARD 2018 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday 'I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich' Observer She made John Lenn ...Show more
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee; David John (As told to)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: North Korea
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of ...Show more
Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Marianne Faithfull
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her life, her friends, her triumphs and mistakes. A decade after the publication of Faithfull, one of the most ...Show more
Educated - A Memoir by Tara Westover
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Educated is a remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho who strives for education while still showing great understanding and love for the world she leaves behind.' - BARACK OBAMA ________________________ Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire - Indie Non-Fiction Winner 2019 by Chloe Hooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
Autumn in Venice - Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea Di Robilant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair now gives us the remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there--a vivacious eighteen-year-old who inspired the man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. In the fall of 1948 Hemingway ...Show more
Room to Dream by David Lynch; Kristine McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: Film
The extraordinary, highly anticipated memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch. In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaksand writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvetand Mulholland Drive, opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativit ...Show more
The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Ben Bravery
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally wh ...Show more
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield by Brian Deer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer reveals the shocking truth behind the rise of Andrew Wakefield the so-called father of the anti-vaccine movement. In February 1998, a then-unknown British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, published an explosive scientific paper in a top medical journal, The Lan ...Show more
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir by Irvin D. Yalom
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoirIrvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve, ...Show more
John Ruskin - An Idiosyncratic Dictionary Encompassing His Passions, His Delusions and His Prophecies by Michael Glover
$46.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From Aesthete to Ziffern, Baby-Language to Verbosity, Badgers to Railway Stations: this gloriously serendipitous dictionary presents the life, times, and strong opinions of John Ruskin (1819-1900)--art critic, patron, draftsman, watercolor painter, social thinker, and philanthropist. Michael Glover's de ...Show more
Fourteen: My Year of Darkness, and the Light that Followed by Shannon Molloy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fourteen is this generation's Holding the Man - a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man's search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regio ...Show more