The Secret Heart: John le Carre: An Intimate Memoir by Suleika Dawson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life John le Carré led a life entirely constructed of secrets – not just in his first career, as a British spy and agent runner during the height of the Cold War or in his second, as a world-renow ...Show more
How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' Tara Westover, author of Educated 'To read it is to believe that words can save' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'One of the most gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying memoirs I've ever read' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun There ...Show more
A Scar is Also Skin (PB) by Ben Mckelvey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From bestselling author Ben Mckelvey comes the inspiring story of stroke, heart attack, survival and remaking a broken body and mind. A book for those who bought Sarah Wilson's First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Osher Gunsberg's Back, After the Break and Emma Carey's The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. ...Show more
Richie Benaud: Those Summers of Cricket (HB) by Various
$43.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Collected together in words and pictures Those Summers of Cricket pays homage to Richie Benaud's life. The many contributions bring his life into sharp focus for the many generations who only know him as the 'voice' of cricket. And through each piece, often written by an ex-Australian cricket team membe ...Show more
Notes from the Velvet Underground - The Life of Lou Reed by Howard Sounes
$36.99 AUD
$39.99 (7% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
Lou Reed, who died in 2013, was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang 'Walk on the Wild Side'. To his dedicated admirers, however, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent American song writers of modern times, a natural outsider who lived a tumultuous and ...Show more
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
$42.00 AUD
$49.99 (15% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
"Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." -Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's ...Show more
Dane Swan: My Story by Dane Swan
$39.99 AUD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
Dane Swan is a Brownlow medallist, three-time Copeland Trophy winner, premiership player and five-time All Australian. The road to success has been an impressive journey for this AFL player. A laid-back knockabout who loves a party. Swan is the son of VFA legend Billy Swan and grew up in Broadmeadows, ...Show more
Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut; Ben Mckelvey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Deng Adut's family were farmers in South Sudan when a brutal civil war altered his life forever. At six years old, his mother was told she had to give him up to fight. At the age most Australian children are starting school , Deng was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He began a harsh ...Show more
Eleanor Marx: A Life: A Life by Rachel Holmes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions. For ye ...Show more
Ben Cousins: My Life Story by Ben Cousins
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Ben Cousins has one of the most extraordinary stories in modern Australian sport. He's perhaps the most gifted player of his generation - a former captain of the West Coast eagles, a Brownlow medallist, a premiership winner, voted the AFL's Most Valuable Player - but he's best known for what he has done ...Show more
Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The critically acclaimed number 1 bestseller in paperback. A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was ...Show more