The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Raynor Winn's magical and life-affirming new book, The Wild Silence - the follow-up to the uplifting, Sunday Times, internationally bestselling, Wainwright prize shortlisted, and Costa shortlisted, The Salt Path. In The Salt Path, Raynor and Moth go out to find the sea, the windswept and wild coastline, ...Show more
Personal Writings - Albert Camus by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most personal and lyrical writing, as he reflects on his identity and childhood in Algeria and celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Camus's first book and most openly autobiographical work, describes his early years in a work ...Show more
The Undying A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. A week after her forty-first birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic ...Show more
Stand by Me by Wendell Berry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As in thought he passes backward into time, the country becomes quieter, and it seems to grow larger. The sounds of engines become less frequent and farther apart until they cease altogether.This is the country of his own life and history, fragmentary as they necessarily have been.On a clear Kentucky ni ...Show more
The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Johnson by Devika Jina
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Extraordinary Lives
In 1969 history was made when the first humans stepped on the moon. Back on earth, one woman was running the numbers that ensured they got there and back in one piece. As a child, Katherine Johnson loved maths. She went on to be one of the most important people in the history of space travel. Discover ...Show more
The Pianist of Yarmouk by Aeham Ahmad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One morning on the outskirts of Damascus, two starving friends are walking through their desolate city and come across a familiar street that has been turned to rubble, concrete bridges towering above them like tombs and houses turned inside out. Aeham turns to the only comfort he has left and sits at h ...Show more
The Glossy Years: Selective Memoirs by Nicholas Coleridge; Anon
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Diana touched your elbow, your arm, covered your hand with hers. It was alluring. And she was disarmingly confiding. "Can I ask you something? Nicholas, please be frank..." Over his thirty-year career at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to ...Show more
Becoming by Michelle Obama
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African American to ...Show more
A Radical Romance - A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation by Alison Light
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Twenty years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic socialist from a very different background to Alison's working-class family. Within a year they were married. Within ten, Raphael would be dead. In this chronicle of a pa ...Show more
Sontag - Her Life by Benjamin Moser
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. "Susan Sontag lived a life of singular contradictions: an intellectual featured on Vanity Fair; gay but married to a man at 17; an independent thinker whose first book was published under her husband’s n ...Show more
Warhol: A Life As Art by Blake Gopnik
$69.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Andy Warhol presented himself as being as shallow as critics accused his famous Campbell's Soup can paintings of being. His public persona was droll; he claimed that he silkscreened because it was easier than painting, and that everyone would have fifteen minutes of fame in the future. But who was Andy ...Show more
The Fossil Hunter : Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling
$31.50 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: MacSci Ser.
Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor family, Mary b ...Show more