The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn n ...Show more
30-Second Leonardo Da Vinci: His Greatest ideas and Inventions, by Marina Wallace
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: 30 Second Ser.
The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and ...Show more
Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson; Boel Westin (Editor); Helen Svensson (Editor); Sarah Death (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson's works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels. Fortunately for her countless readers, her life was no different, unfolding a ...Show more
Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"My name is Andrew Cotter and once upon a time I was a sports broadcaster. In Olive, Mabel and Me I try to explain how it can be that after a career commentating on Olympic Games, World Cups and Wimbledon finals, I am now far better known for describing the daily lives of my Labradors, Olive and Mabel. ...Show more
The Hard Way - Adapt, Survive and Win by Mark 'Billy' Billingham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark 'Billy' Billingham. They are the backbone of the British military and I for one am thankful he is on our side!' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'Billy is inspirational and always humble. A giant of a man!' - Bear Grylls 'The most experienced Specia ...Show more
Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies "Golem Girl is luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young--and mature--woman; an unflinching social history of disability over ...Show more
A Doctor in Africa by Andrew Browning
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Australian doctor saving the lives and dignity of thousands of women in Africa, one surgery at a time. From Ethiopia to Sierra Leone, Tanzania to Togo, Dr Andrew Browning has been helping women affected by obstetric fistulas - a debilitating condition resulting from obstructed childbirth - for near ...Show more
The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki
$12.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Face Ser.
What did your face look like before your parents were born? In The Face: A Time Code, bestselling author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. Ozeki challenges herself to spend three hours gazing into her own reflection, ...Show more
Manderley Forever - A Biography of Daphne du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay; Sam Taylor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay pays homage to Daphne du Maurier, the writer who influenced her deeply, in this startling and immersive new biography. A portrait of one writer by another, Manderley Forever meticulously recounts a life as mysterious and dramatic as the work it produced, and highli ...Show more
The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles - A Memoir by Francoise Hardy by Françoise Hardy; Jon E. Graham (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"I was for a very long time passionately in love with her, as I'm sure she's guessed. Every male in the world, and a number of females also were, and we all still are." --David Bowie "Fran oise was the ultimate pin-up of most hip bedroom walls, and I know for a fact that Brian Jones and Mick Jagger, Jo ...Show more
Gloria's Voice: The Story of Gloria Steinem: Feminist, Activist, Leader by Aura Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Women Who Changed Our World
Gloria Steinem started a movement that changed our world - and this picture-book biography, which follows Steinem from childhood through her political awakening and beyond, introduces young readers to the pioneering feminist leader. Using gorgeous watercolour illustrations by debut author Aura Lewis, G ...Show more
Say Hello by Carly Findlay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A forthright, honest and rousingly brave memoir from a woman who has to live with a highly visible different appearancedue to a rare skin condition. What she has to live with, and what she confronts on a day to day basis will have you cheering for her and her courage. Say hello to Carly. 'In fairytal ...Show more