One of Us: The Story of a Massacre and its Aftermath by Asne Seierstad
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. One of Us is the definitive account of the massacres and the subsequent trial. But more than that, it is the compelling story of Anders Breivik and a select group of his victims. As ...Show more
Letter To My Daughter by Maya Angelou
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.Here in ...Show more
Journeys in the Wild: The Secret Life of the Cameraman by Gavin Thurston
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From Gavin Thurston, the award-winning Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II cameraman with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough comes extraordinary and adventurous true stories of what it takes to track down and film our planet's most captivating creatures. Gavin has been a wildlife photographer for over ...Show more
Life in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford - the Biography by Laura Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, 'very, very complex'. Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from thes ...Show more
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter--who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagab ...Show more
The Mountbattens by Andrew Lownie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A new biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, from award-winning author Andrew Lownie.
The Crown: The Inside Story 1956-1977 by Robert Lacey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this incredible companion to the second and third seasons of Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Elizabeth II, Lacey ...Show more
Clothes ... and other things that matter by Alexandra Shulman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Chosen by Evening Standard as one of the best books to look forward to in 2020. 'a must-read memoir for even those beyond the fashion set.' - Evening Standard Chosen by Stylist as one of 2020's best non-fiction books. 'In the funny and opinionated Clothes... and other things that matter, former Vogue UK ...Show more
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Each ch ...Show more
Victory in the Kitchen - The Life of Churchill's Cook by Annie Gray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous, simply someone who worked hard and enjoyed her life. Beginning in 1882, she ranged through life in the country, life in the town, life in her own house, and in that of others. She travelled, married, had children and a highly succes ...Show more
Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to have to flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a ...Show more
Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
LOUIS THEROUX: 'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text'PANDORA SYKES: 'Such a moving, redemptive, clear-eyed account of religious indoctrination'NICK HORNBY: 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption'DOLLY ALDERTON: 'A mode ...Show more