Frantz Fanon - A Political Biography by Leo Zeilig
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth-century's most influential theorists and activists, whose work fighting against colonialism and imperialism has been an inspiration to today's decolonization and anti-racism movements. As the author of essential texts such as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin ...Show more
The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The debut memoir from a brilliant new voice in non-fiction - gloriously funny, bitingly well-observed and emotionally raw. ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Indecently entertaining' Guardian 'Hilarious' The Times I had no idea how to commit to another human being. I could barely commit to reading a mag ...Show more
The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Vol. 1 - A Restless Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 2016 it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22 million (and $64 million in tax relief). As the boxes started to arrive, the Foundation asked Clinton Heylin - author of the acclaimed Dylan behind the Shades (199 ...Show more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: the Last Interview: And Other Conversations by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg served on the Supreme Court of the United States as associate justice from 1993 until her death in 2020. Before that, she served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from her appointment in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter until her appointment to the Supre ...Show more
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
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Category: Biography & Memoir
An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her bab ...Show more
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
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Category: Biography & Memoir
What does the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies and deception do to a black body, a black family and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse' In Heavy, Laymon writes about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his earl ...Show more
The Auschwitz Photographer by Luca Crippa; Maurizio Onnis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times...' Wilhelm Brasse When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A t ...Show more
Orwell by Pierre Christin
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Category: Biography & Memoir
George Orwell's most celebrated work, 1984, and the prescient vision it contains of a society governed by Big Brother predates the constant monitoring of people and data we are familiar with today by almost 70 years. But his life was every bit as fascinating and forward-looking as his books. Orwell stud ...Show more
Joe Biden - American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
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Category: Biography & Memoir
A concise, brilliant and incisive examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency This definitive history of Joe Biden tells the poignant story of the man – both his life in politics and the series of personal tragedies that have marked him – drawing on extensive co ...Show more
Honey Blood by Kirsty Everett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it does, laughed at the goal she’d set. Aged nine, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent the next two and a half years in treatment and attending the funerals of children she met in the cancer ward. At th ...Show more
Beat of Life: A Surgeon Reveals the Secrets of the Heart by Reinhard Friedl
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The heart is our most important - and perhaps most mysterious - organ. Every day it pumps 9000 litres of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sympathy, joy, courage, strength and wisdom. Why is this s ...Show more
Summertime: Reflections on a Fractured Future by Danielle Celermajer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Philosopher Danielle Celermajer's story of Jimmy the pig caught the world's attention during the Black Summer of 2019-20. Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies Cele ...Show more