Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
*As featured on BBC Breakfast, Radio 5Live and Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2*From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - what it's like out there and what it's like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and dare to thin ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Bryson Ser.
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everythingone of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about ...Show more
Memories of Low Tide by Chantal Thomas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gorgeous memoir of childhood, the mother-daughter bond and the transformative power of swimming, by multi-award-winning French author Chantal Thomas.
Young Rembrandt by Onno Blom
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An immersive exploration of the little-known story of Rembrandt's formative years. Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist in the world? With his formative years shrouded in mystery, the only remaining evidence of Rembra ...Show more
Widow Basquiat - A Memoir by Jennifer Clement
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons
Madonna. Andy Warhol. Keith Haring. Fab 5 Freddie. Debbie Harry. Julian Schnabel. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and aspiring stars. Unable to deal with the demands that his ...Show more
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilari ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Ira B. Nadel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives
Featuring new details about Virginia Woolf's homes and personal life, this engaging biography offers a fresh insight into her work, focusing on how place as much as imagination fashioned her writing. Drawing on her letters, journals, diaries, autobiographical essays and fiction, it reveals Woolf's respo ...Show more
Impossible: My Story - Stan Walker by Stan Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
No Spin: The autobiography of Shane Warne by Shane Warne, Mark Nicholas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1993 at Old Trafford, Manchester, a young blond leg-spinner bowled the ball that was heard around the world. In the years that followed, there were plenty of deliveries that all but matched it. Everyone knows the story, or thinks they do. The bowler who rewrote the record books. One of Wisden's five ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin, Li Cunxin
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Before you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his scho ...Show more
The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory: A Memoir by Corey White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Corey White was a golden child. He knew this because his father would hit his mother and his sisters but not him. And his mother adored him so much she let him drop out of primary school. After losing his father to jail and his mother to heroin, though, he became a target for cruelty and dysfunction in ...Show more