Invention: A Life by James Dyson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Dyson has become a byword for high performing products, technology, design and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life. Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of th ...Show more
The Nazis Knew My Name by Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity. In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other y ...Show more
Taste - My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the kitchen Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent ev ...Show more
Every Deep-Drawn Breath: an intensive-care doctor's notes on healing by Wes Ely
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A world-renowned critical-care doctor offers hope for patients, their families, and the future of medicine in this timely, urgent, and compassionate work about the devastating and little-known physical and emotional effects of ICU stays. As COVID-19 survivors are discharged from hospitals, grateful to ...Show more
The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Australia wanted Scott Morrison. In a time of uncertainty, the country chose in 2019 to turn to a man with no obvious beliefs, no clear purpose and no famous talents. That we wanted Scott Morrison was the secret we did not know about ou ...Show more
Home Truths: A Memoir (HB) by David Williamson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & 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
Whole Notes by Ed Ayres
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves? One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening or playing, we know ourselv ...Show more
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe by Michael Bird, Orlando Bird
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Writers' Letters is a collection of fascinating letters written by great writers, from Dickens to De Beauvoir. Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is much to discover in this illustrated compendium of letters written ...Show more
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of theWorld by Liang Hong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village ...Show more
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A strange and mesmerising piece of work' Sunday Times 'An absolute masterpiece' Laura Cumming 'An uncommon delight' Observer Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she turns her curator's ...Show more
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An intimate and magical memoir about embarking on a road trip with Borges through Scotland and the famed writer's thoughts on literature, love and poetry. In this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years ...Show more
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The explosive new book by the bestselling author of The Mountbattens. Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and ...Show more