Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A wild ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her ...Show more
Line in the Sand by Dean Yates
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter ...Show more
Father of the Lost Boys by Yuot A. Alaak
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
During the Second Sudanese Civil war, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced from their villages or orphaned in attacks from northern government troops. Many became refugees in Ethiopia. There, in 1989, teacher and community leader Mecak Ajang Alaak assumed care of the Lost Boys in a bid to pro ...Show more
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman’s right and saving gr ...Show more
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka by Karolina Watroba
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An original, inventive new biography of Franz Kafka - and his readers 'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure to read.' Marina Warner In 2024, ...Show more
The Afterlife Confessional by Bill Edgar
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Heartbreaking and hilarious, outrageous and wise, The Afterlife Confessional is Bill Edgar's fascinating account of the things he's witnessed and learned as the Coffin Confessor - the bizarre and beautiful ways we live and love, the finality of death and the power of legacy, and how letting go can somet ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pri ...Show more
Shades of Me: My many lives through many Dreamings by Mel Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Melinda Brown (Ngunnawal woman) shares the story of discovering her heritage and how the journey to understand her culture gave her the strength to find her place in the world. Mel Brown is an Australian Aboriginal Ngunnawal woman. This is her story. Growing up white, Mel always felt that there ...Show more
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A memoir by Grace Tame
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"NOW IN PAPERBACK The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner is Grace's story, in Grace's words, on Grace's terms. Here she returns, again and again, to the things that have driven and saved her: love, connection and radical, unwavering honesty. Like Grace, this book is sharply intelligent, deeply felt, wildly u ...Show more
For Life: A memoir of living and dying - and flying by Ailsa Piper
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Category: Biography
An unforgettable and moving insight into loss, hope and starting again, aided by the incredible healing power of nature and a community of unexpected angels, for fans of Phosphoresence by Julia Baird. After I swim, I watch an osprey hanging in mid-air. It looks like pure pleasure, suspended, its wings ...Show more
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clie ...Show more
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2019 * ONE OF TIME'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2019 * AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2019 "Her highly personal ...Show more