The Smallest Lights in the Universe by Sara Seager
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected discovery of new love. Sara Seager has made it her life's work ...Show more
Uncanny Valley - a Memoir by Anna Wiener
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A January 2020 IndieNext Pick. One of Vogue's 22 Books to Read This Winter. "A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to Uncanny Valley for clarity and consolation for many years to come." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion The pres ...Show more
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - My family, the holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home office, and piles of children's books for when my ...Show more
Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Grace Katz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II. In Daughters of Yalta, Catherine Katz uncov ...Show more
The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anna Pasternak
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Wallis Simpson was one of the most vilified women of twentieth century. In a stunning biography, Anna Pasternak asks who the American Duchess really was - a social climber, a master manipulator, or simply the true love of King Edward's life? Life has always been made difficult for those marrying into E ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more
Ma'am Darling - 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
WINNER OF THE SOUTH BANK SKY ARTS LITERATURE AWARD 2018 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday 'I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich' Observer She made John Lenn ...Show more
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee; David John (As told to)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: North Korea
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of ...Show more
Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Marianne Faithfull
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her life, her friends, her triumphs and mistakes. A decade after the publication of Faithfull, one of the most ...Show more
Educated - A Memoir by Tara Westover
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Educated is a remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho who strives for education while still showing great understanding and love for the world she leaves behind.' - BARACK OBAMA ________________________ Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire - Indie Non-Fiction Winner 2019 by Chloe Hooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
Autumn in Venice - Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea Di Robilant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair now gives us the remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there--a vivacious eighteen-year-old who inspired the man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. In the fall of 1948 Hemingway ...Show more