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
BETWEEN BREATHS by VARGAS ELIZABETH
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, I am an alcoholic, to interview George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in Between Breaths, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which began suddenly at the age of ...Show more
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, A National Book Award Finalist A profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a black father for his son, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Challenge Accepted! by Celeste Barber
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted! is a hilarious and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas and how to rock a sexy scar. It's real, like totally, really real. Actor, writer and comedian, Celeste Barber is one very funny woman - not to men ...Show more
The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir by John Cook; Jon Bauer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In Tasmania, John Cook is known as: 'The Keeper of the Flame'. John's renowned as one of the last of the "kerosene keepers": he spent a good part of his 26-year career in Tasmanian lighthouses tending kerosene, not electrical, lamps. He joined the lighthouse service in 1969, after a spell in the merchan ...Show more
Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write.Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the ...Show more
Waypoints by Sam Heughan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Journey deep into the Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of Outlander Sam Heughan - exploring his life and reflecting on the waypoints that define himIn this intimate journey of self-discovery, Sam Heughan sets out along Scotland's rugged West Highland Way to ...Show more
H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick by Helen Macdonald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to ...Show more