Mountain to Mountain by Shannon Galpin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Being inspired to act can take many forms. For some it's taking a weekend to volunteer, but for Shannon Galpin, it meant leaving her career, selling her house, launching a nonprofit and committing her life to advancing education and opportunity for women and girls. Focusing on the war-torn country of Af ...Show more
In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs by Grace Bonney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body and Spirit
Over 100 exceptional and influential women describe how they embraced their creative spirit, overcame adversity, and sparked a global movement of entrepreneurship. Media titans and ceramicists, hoteliers and tattoo artists, comedians and architects--taken together, these profiles paint a beautiful pictu ...Show more
The New Confessions by William Boyd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"The New Confessions" is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ...Jo ...Show more
Bukowski in a Sundress Confessions from a Writing Life by Kim Addonizio
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Through a collection of personal essays, poet provocateur Kim Addonizio chronicles the joys and indignities in the life of a writer coasting through middle age. She vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the road - from sparsely attended readings at small ...Show more
Lapsed by Monica Dux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Losing your religion is harder than it looks ... From devout ten-year-old performing the part of Jesus in a primary school play to blaspheming, undergraduate atheist, Monica Dux and her attitude to the Catholic Church changed profoundly over a decade. Another ten years and she'd calmed right down. Now s ...Show more
Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The bestselling, award-winning and critically acclaimed biography of the young Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is a portrait ...Show more
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life i ...Show more
Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl: A memoir by Sonia Henry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying Sydney medical intern to dust-covered rural GP. Solo GP needed for medical clinic, mining town in Pilbara region, Western Australia. Car and accommodation provided. On call paid extra. Close proximity to absolutely n ...Show more
The World According To Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigourous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbre ...Show more
Patting the Shark by Tim Baker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A surfer's journey learning to live well with cancer Tim Baker was living the dream. A best-selling and award-winning surf writer with a beautiful family, a lifetime of exotic travel and a home walking distance to quality waves. That all changed on July 7, 2015, when he was diagnosed, out of the blue, ...Show more
The Beautiful Fall : Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris - Lagerfeld & Yves Saint Laurent by Alicia Drake
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good
In 1950s Paris, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were friends, the rising stars of the fashion world. But by the late sixties the city was invaded by a new mood of liberation and hedonism, and dominated by intrigue, infidelities, addiction and parties. Each designer created his own mesmerising worl ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Diaries of a Junior Doctor | Reading Level: very good
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more tha ...Show more