Sex, Lies and Question Time: Why the successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament matter to us all by Kate Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
Places I've Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This metaphysical, intimate and visceral essay collection is stunning in its insight and suffused with optimism - Molly McCully Brown is the Rebecca Solnit of the body.
How Stella Learned to Talk by Christina Hunger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The groundbreaking story of the world's first talking dog, the indispensable dog book for the new decade. An incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your dog to talk from speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger, who taught her dog, Stella, to communicate usi ...Show more
Fury by Kathryn Heyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A raw, painfully honest, heartbreaking account of a young woman raising herself out of abuse and poverty to become her own hero. A roadmap of recovery and transformation, this is the story of becoming heroic in a culture which doesn't see heroism in the shape of a girl. At the age of twenty, after a t ...Show more
The Women's Doc: True Stories from My Five Decades Delivering Babies and Making History by Caroline de Costa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Funny and poignant stories from the labour ward and from the frontline of campaigns for women's reproductive rights, from Australia's best known obstetrician. 'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology ...Show more
Life on a Knife's Edge: A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival by Rahul Jandial
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Rahul has spent the last 20 years treating patients whose lives hang in the balance, from keeping a gun victim's heart pumping with his own hand, to saving a woman from paralysis and performing brain surgery while time is running out on a haemorrhaging patient. Rules for Survival distils the resilience, ...Show more
Everything Harder Than Everyone Else: Why Some of Us Push Our Bodies to the Extreme by Jenny Valentish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It's human nature to test our limits. But what happens when this comes to define you?When Jenny Valentish wrote a memoir about addiction in 2017, she noticed the people who treated drug-taking like an Olympic sport would often hurl themselves into a pursuit such as marathon running upon giving up. What ...Show more
Rewilding the Urban Soul: searching for the wild in the city by Claire Dunn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
We're a famously nature-loving nation, yet 86 per cent of Australians call the city home. Amid the concrete and the busyness, how can we also answer the call of the wild?Once upon a time, a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Yet love and the possibil ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her rati ...Show more
Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives by Karin Wieland, Shelley Frisch
$31.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrich's Berlin flat. Coming of age in the Weimar Republic, both sought fame in Germany's silent film industry. While Dietrich's depiction of Lola Lola in The Blue Angel cat ...Show more
The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with My Grandmother's Ashes by Krissy Kneen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In her 2010 memoir, Affection, Krissy Kneen introduced readers to her unique family and the towering matriarchal figure of her grandmother. Stern, domineering, fiercely loving, Lotty Kneen-born Dragitsa-was always tight-lipped about her early life and family history. She rebuffed Krissy's curiosity and ...Show more
Full Circle: A Search for the World That Comes Next by Scott Ludlam
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It's getting late. We have to get moving. A scorched eucalyptus leaf twirls out of a clear sky, a premonition that begins a journey into a world on the edge. In Full Circle, Scott Ludlam draws on his unique experience as senator and activist. Travelling the world, he discovers an emerging post-capitalis ...Show more