The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'The Hungover Games deftly explores expectations of modern womanhood through a beautiful, wild, painfully honest, hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking story. Full of adventure and awe, Sophie Heawood has written a soulful, truthful homage to a life lived with appetite, intensity and wonder.' Dolly Alde ...Show more
Sagan : My World by Peter Sagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From 2015 to 2017, Peter Sagan achieved the seemingly impossible- he won three road race World Championships in a row, ensuring his entry into the history books as one of the greatest riders of all time. But to look at Peter?s record in isolation is to tell only a fraction of his story, because Peter do ...Show more
Flash Count Diary: A New Story About the Menopause by Darcey Steinke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flushes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to understand what was happening to her, she slammed up against a culture of silence and sexism. Some promoted hormone replacement therapy, others encouraged acceptance, but there was little that ...Show more
Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the debris of her troubled early life, Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing tale of survival. A kind of memoir that is also a paean to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, desire - for men and women - and the exhilaration of swimming, The Chronology of Water lays a life bare.It is a life that ...Show more
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the debris of her troubled early life, Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing tale of survival. It is a life that navigates, and transcends, abuse, addiction, self-destruction and the crushing loss of a stillborn child.A kind of memoir that is also a paean to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, ...Show more
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Dina Nayeri's powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees In her first work of nonfiction, Dina Nayeri raises surprising and provocative questions, recalibrating the conversation aroun ...Show more
How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) ...Show more
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
The savage, beautiful, and unforgettable memoirs of an extraordinary artist, activist, and iconoclast who lit up the New York art scene in the late twentieth centuryDavid Wojnarowicz's brief but eventful life was not easy. From a suburban adolescence marked by neglect, drugs, prostitution, and abuse to ...Show more
A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Writings of John Berger by Joshua Sperling
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at ...Show more
Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning autho ...Show more
Fosse: The Biography by Sam Wasson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Don't dance for the audience. Dance for yourself.The basis for a lavish new drama series from Hamiltoncreator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Fosseis the definitive book on one of Broadway's and Hollywood's most complex and dynamic icons.The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards in the same year, Bob ...Show more