The Spark That Survived by Myra Lewis Williams
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Myra Lewis Williams is only five feet tall, yet she stands as a shining beacon of hope and inspiration to any woman who has has ever struggled through life's deepest depths of despair. In this memoir, with her own brand of unflinching, down-to-earth, humorous, Southern storytelling, she reveals how she ...Show more
George Harrison on George Harrison - Interviews and Encounters by Ashley Kahn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
Grammy-winning author Ashley Kahn has received widespread critical acclaim for A Love Supreme: The Making of John Coltrane's Signature Album and Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. Book jacket.
One Bright Moon by Andrew Kwong
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia Andrew Kwong was only seven when he witnessed his first execution. The grim scene left him sleepless, anxious and doubtful about his fervour as a revolutionary in Mao's New China. Yet he knew if he devoted hi ...Show more
Life and Death Decisions by Lachlan McIver
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine. After Lachlan McIver’s father suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack it sends him into a spiral of grief and outrage. This tragedy inspires him to become a doctor and he eventually finds his calling – providing care for commun ...Show more
Through Her Eyes: Australia's Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine by Melissa Roberts, Trevor Watson EDS
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In Through Her Eyes Australian women correspondents tell their own stories from the frontline – covering the breaking news, the issues and the events that are changing the world. They tell of Russian tanks and Ukrainian mothers fleeing with their children, vicious Afghan warlords, anti-government rebels ...Show more
My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies from shame from a key intersectional feminist thinker of a new generation It occurred to me then that the thing that made me the sickest, the thing that made me suffer most, was the fact that I felt so compelled to hide what had bee ...Show more
Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy by Shaun Micallef
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV’s news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself – an insightful and funny memoir about comedy and life that takes us through uncharted waters to unexpected places. Comedy has been Shaun’s escape, his guiding light, his refuge, his passport, his lifebuoy ...Show more
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty by Ash Barty
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, right? But for me and my team it's always been important to reflect on every part of ...Show more
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The raw, candid and long-awaited autobiography from one of the greatest icons of the 20th Century In 2008, Paul Newman tasked his best friend with interviewing the people who had shaped his life, in order to create an oral history of it. After hearing and reading what they had to say, Newman dictated h ...Show more
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
She was peaches-and-cream innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins. The marriage of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt Philip Mountbatten in November 1947 is remembered as the beginning of an extraordinary, lifelong union but success was not guaranteed. El ...Show more
Glorious Rock Bottom by Bryony Gordon
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
DARK, HONEST, UPLIFTING. THIS IS A SOBRIETY MEMOIR LIKE NO OTHER. 'This is a book that tears down walls.' Marian Keyes 'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer whose razor-sharp honesty slices through every sentence of this compelling memoir.' Liz Day 'Poetic, raw and very important.' Fearn ...Show more