Last Shot: A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption by Jock Zonfrillo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens.
When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'We spoke to each other in endearments. My darling, my love, mon amour, ma cherie, poussin, mouton, bebe ...People we knew, I think, made fun of us. What they didn't know was that we couldn't say each other's names.' After a lifetime spent living firmly in English, Lauren Collins finds herself adrift in ...Show more
My Family's Keeper by Brad Haddin
$34.99 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
A cricket autobiography unlike any other; a universal story about how love for your family trumps everything. Specialist Australian wicket-keepers to wear the baggy green are a rare and tough breed. Since 1877, only a select few Australian cricketers have held the sport's toughest on-field position. By ...Show more
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story by Xaviera Hollander
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In the 1960s, as the sexual revolution was mushrooming, a beautiful young Dutch woman named Xaviera de Vries became the most powerful madam in New York City. In 1972, under the name Xaviera Hollander, she published a candid -read racy -account of her life behind the brothel door. The Happy Hooker shot s ...Show more
Fidel and Che by Simon Reid-Henry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the remarkable friendship between two iconic figures. Not yet thirty, Fidel Castro and Ernesto (Che) Guevara met in 1955 while both in exile in Mexico City. Guevara, the Argentine doctor plagued by asthma, had reached the end of the travels he be ...Show more
Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea by Marie Munkara
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving, Of Ashes and Rivers That Run to the Sea is a fearless account of being a young woman caught between two worlds. An old baptismal card falling out of a book changed the course of 28-year-old Marie Munkara's life forever. Until that moment she had no idea of ...Show more
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year by Ranulph Fiennes
$25.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Always the leader and always the best' Bear Grylls 'Fiennes has so much to fit in, it's a wonder to grasp the full breadth of a lifetime of adventuring' - Compass Magazine 'Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped . . . compelling' - Time Out Sir Ranulph ...Show more
The Dancer: A Biography for Philippa Cullen by Evelyn Juers
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The new book by prize-winning biographer Evelyn Juers, author of The House of Exile and The Recluse, portrays the life and background of a pioneering Australian dancer who died at the age of twenty-five in a remote town in India.A uniquely talented dancer and choreographer, Philippa Cullen grew up in Au ...Show more
Only: A Singular Memoir by Caroline Baum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far between. Mostly, there was only me...Only is a painfully honest and entertaining story of an unconventional c ...Show more
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her siste ...Show more
Before & Laughter by Jimmy Carr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians - for anyone who feels stuck in a rut but doesn't have the tools or self-belief to shake things up*In his mid-twenties, Jimmy was bored, boring, unfulfilled and underachieving. He wasn't exactly depressed, but he was very sa ...Show more