In My Defence, I Have No Defence by Sinead Stubbins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In My Defence, I Have No Defence raises the white flag on trying to live up to impossible standards. Wild and funny and wickedly relatable, it is one woman’s reckoning with her complete inability to self-improve and an hilarious reprieve for anyone who has ever struggled to be better. This is the comfor ...Show more
Goodbye to All That (Revised Edition) - Writers on Loving and Leaving New York by Sari Botton (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From Roxane Gay to Leslie Jamison, thirty brilliant writers share their timeless stories about the everlasting magic--and occasional misery--of living in the Big Apple, in a new edition of the classic anthology. In the revised edition of this classic collection, thirty writers share their own storie ...Show more
The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Face Ser.
What did your face look like before your parents were born? In The Face: A Time Code, bestselling author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. Ozeki challenges herself to spend three hours gazing into her own reflection, ...Show more
Upheaval: Disrupted Lives in Journalism by Andrew Dodd (Editor); Matthew Ricketson (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
‘Journalism was a trade you could go into and if you were any good at it you were a reasonably prosperous member of the community ... that’s just no longer the case.’ — David MarrJournalists make a living out of telling other people's stories. Rarely are we shown a glimpse of their doubts and vulnerabil ...Show more
The Ox - The Last of the Great Rock Stars: the Authorised Biography of the Who's John Entwistle by Paul Rees
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The definitive no-holds-barred biography of John Entwistle, The Who's legendary bass guitaristIt is an unequivocal fact that in terms of rock bands, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who represent Year Zero; the beginning of all things, ground-breakers all. To that end, John Entwistle - the Who's ...Show more
The Lost Cafe Schindler by Meriel Schindler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame? Or Hitler's Jewish doctor - Dr Bloch? What really ...Show more
Windsor Diaries: A Childhood with the Princesses by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
**SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****A DAILY MAIL CHRISTMAS BOOKS PICK** 'A must if you love The Crown' Good Housekeeping 'For a glimpse into the lives of the young princesses these diaries are riveting' Daily Mail, Christmas Bo ...Show more
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Alexander Lee
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' - Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors. 'A notorious fiend', 'generally odious', 'he seems hideous, and so he is.' Thanks ...Show more
The School: The Ups and Downs of One Year in the Classroom by Brendan James Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A portrait of one teacher and his class as they journey through the ups and downs of a school year. Brendan James Murray has been a secondary school teacher for more than ten years. In that time he has seen hundreds of kids move through his classes - troubled, brilliant, funny, passionate, struggling: e ...Show more
Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life by Clem Bastow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Introducing a bold new voice in Australian nonfiction, Late Bloomer is a heartfelt coming-of-age memoir that will change the way you think about autism. Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she'd missed a key memo on human behaviour. She found the unspoken rules of social engagement confusing, arbitrary a ...Show more
The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi's new China by Michael Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It was just after midnight when China’s notorious secret police came knocking. A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign correspondents in China. After fi ...Show more
Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As Ingrid Horrocks takes swims in rivers, oceans and pools around the world, she considers her relationship with water and with the world around her. The question didn't seem to be so much why we swim, as where and how we swim, and with whom. Also, where we fail to swim, water threatening to flood our ...Show more