This is Not a Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A moving memoir from the award-winning screenwriter and playwright Abi Morgan about what happens when the person you love most no longer recognizes youOne afternoon, Abi Morgan returned home to find her longtime partner and father to their two kids collapsed on the bathroom floor. Jacob, who had been un ...Show more
A Black Boy at Eton by Dillibe Onyeama
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The story [Onyeama] had to tell was so gripping and shocking, it wouldn't let me go . . . A remarkably well-written memoir' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionDillibe was the second black boy to study at Eton - joining in 1965 - and the first to complete his education there. Written at just 21, ...Show more
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. *A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED PRIZE 2021* Determined not ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training.Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workaholic ...Show more
The Diamond Queen by Andrew Marr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
<b><i>Sunday Times</i> Top 10 B</b><b>estseller</b><b>, fully revised and updated with a new chapter.</b> <b>'</b><b>Absorbing . . . particularly acute on the political aspects of constitutional monarchy, but he also writes perceptively a ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The official biography of the award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate. 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 201 ...Show more
Paris or Die: A Memoir by Jayne Tuttle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sharp, funny and unflinchingly honest, Jayne Tuttle's memoir lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards. This new edition of Paris or Die is a headlong plunge into not just life in Paris, but life itself. Aspiring actor Jayne lives in Melbourne, where she dreams of a creative life ...Show more
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life i ...Show more
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as ... a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering ...Show more
A Likely Lad by Peter Doherty, Simon Spence
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Peter Doherty is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - maybe even the best ever rock 'n' roll story. Since his band The Libertines rose to international fame, he has proved endlessly fascinating, the subject of numerous books, documentaries, magazine articles, front-page newspaper headlines and ...Show more
Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe's heart of darkness by Pieter van Os
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large orthodox Jewish family in ...Show more
A Family Torn Apart by Cathy Glass
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Angie, 6, and her sister, Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive at Cathy's house, having been taken from their home by social workers, after their older half-sister, Ashleigh, accuses their father of raping her.Cathy tries to comfort the girls, but they want their mummy and daddy, and are in ...Show more