Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life by Clem Bastow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Introducing a bold new voice in Australian nonfiction, Late Bloomer is a heartfelt coming-of-age memoir that will change the way you think about autism. Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she'd missed a key memo on human behaviour. She found the unspoken rules of social engagement confusing, arbitrary a ...Show more
Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age by Daisy Hay
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A portrait of a radical age via the writers who gather around a publisher's dining table - from William Wordsworth to Mary Wollstonecraft.Joseph Johnson became a bookseller and a maker of books in an age when books appeared to have the potential to change the world. Between 1760 and 1809, the years of J ...Show more
All the Worst Humans - How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons and Politicians by Phil Elwood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down.' - Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking 'Might be a career-destroying book... highly enjoyable' Daily Telegraph 'A spin doctor to the rich and corrupt spills his secrets . . . In All the Worst Humans, Phil Elwood recounts a career spent ...Show more
The Dominatrix Next Door by Mistress Jane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When a cash-strapped single mother of two in suburban Melbourne has a fun idea to start a side hustle running workshops for hens' parties, she has no idea it will lead her on a surreal adventure (or twenty) through the debaucherous underground world of kink clubs and swingers' parties. Nor does she know ...Show more
The Queen by Andrew Morton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world.
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist.William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cele ...Show more
Weatherman Goes Bush by Graham Creed
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A memoir about the unexpected joys and challenges of a tree-change from a television studio to a farm, from a beloved former ABC weather presenter. The expectations of a tree-change rarely meet the reality, but for TV weatherman-cum-farmer Graham Creed, being immersed in the weather every day, rather th ...Show more
Heartbake: A bittersweet memoir by Charlotte Ree
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The discovery of cooking for others again ignited something in me-it gave me meaning, and in some ways it brought me back to life.' In this heartfelt memoir of food, love and self-discovery, Charlotte Ree takes us along her journey of learning to cook in the wake of a divorce that left her feeling uns ...Show more
Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen by Erin French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen is Erin French's rollercoaster memoir about her struggle to follow her dream and bring joy to people through food. Erin French grew up barefoot on a 25-acre farm in Maine, fell in love with food as a teenager working the line at her dad's diner and found her calling ...Show more
The Last Paradise by Tom Cole
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Tom Cole hunted crocodiles and buffalo, was a horse-breaker, brumby runner and drover, owned and managed cattle stations and a coffee plantation. The Last Paradise is the sequel to Tom Cole's bestselling autobiography Hell West and Crooked and recounts his story of thirty years in New Guinea amongst "cr ...Show more
A Very Private School by Charles Spencer
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an ant ...Show more
Empire, War, Tennis and Me by Peter Doherty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this personal yet unsentimental memoir, Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty unearths the revealing and unique history of tennis and its ties to culture and nationalism. For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge. Peter Doherty, one of the world's foremost authorities on immunology, recipi ...Show more