Browse by category
Childhood, Youth, Dependency - The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, Guardian Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ...Show more
Consent - A Memoir by Vanessa Springora; Natasha Lehrer (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen 'A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife' Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Vanessa Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France's ...Show more
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, ...Show more
Growing up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'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
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne; Tamara Payne
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X--all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figure ...Show more
Eating with My Mouth Open by Sam van Zweden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'To eat is to build upon our collective story. We use food to say, again and again, who we are.' Eating with My Mouth Open is food writing like you've never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food writers, reve ...Show more
Insomniac City : New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me by Bill Hayes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous' Joyce Carol OatesBill Hayes came to New York in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Fr ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$49.99 AUD
$65.00 (23% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Greenlights (PB) by Matthew McConaughey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. 'I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clue ...Show more
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death and Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselve ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
In the Dream House - A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological ...Show more