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
Life of Brine: A Surfer's Journey by Phil Jarratt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"In the not-so-small world of surfing, Phil Jarratt has seen it all. Luckily for us, he's a fearless, funny storyteller, with a reporter's unsentimental eye and an endearing modesty. But his memoir is, above all, a haunting self-portrait: the boy practising drop-knee cutbacks in his mother's full-length ...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
Alice to Prague by Tanya Heaslip
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Outback finds adventure & love
In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic.Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching ...Show more
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
Hawkwind - Days of the Underground - Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia by Joe Banks
$72.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Strange Attractor Press Ser.
An account of the English rock band Hawkwind shows them to be one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s. Fifty years on from when it first formed, the English rock band Hawkwind continues to inspire devotion from fans around the world. Its influence reaches across the spec ...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
Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more unique because of the remarkably gifted musical family she was born into' EMMYLOU HARRIS Born into music royalty, daughter of Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwrig ...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
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