Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything.' Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law ...Show more
Dignity in a Teacup by Christine Cummins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Chronicles the five years Christine Cummins spent working as a torture and trauma counsellor with asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island. It provides a firsthand account of Australian immigration detention, during a period of dramatic change and controversy. With exclusive access to the stories sha ...Show more
Abracadabra by Robert Dessaix
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The first time around these pieces were not widely heard or read. A roomful of festival-goers in Sydney or Penang or Ballarat could well have heard me hold forth on the subject of Enid Blyton, say, or kissing, it’s true, and a few of my newspaper articles – my feuilletons, as I’m calling them – may hav ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An intimate and magical memoir about embarking on a road trip with Borges through Scotland and the famed writer's thoughts on literature, love and poetry. In this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years ...Show more
Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend by Rose Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her spectacular acts of defiance. Bee Miles was famous for appearing in public in towns and cities across Australia, breaking their rules, and living, she said 'recklessly'. But she was no ordinary w ...Show more
Against All Odds: The inside account of the Thai cave rescue and the courageous Australians at the heart of it by Richard Harris, Craig Challen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
‘I just want to warn you. You’re going to dive to the end of the cave. You’re going to see these kids. They’re all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you’re going to swim away, and they’re probably all going to die.’ In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
Ciao Bella! Six Take Italy by Kate Langbroek
$24.99 AUD
$32.99 (24% off)
Category: Biography
Kate Langbroek’s deliciously funny, irreverent and inspiring memoir about moving to Bologna with her family to seek la dolce vita is a glorious reminder of what we can learn from the Italians about living life to the full – and what really matters when the world goes to hell in a handbasket. ‘I wasn’t ...Show more
Teacher, Teacher: Stories of inspirational educators by Megan Daley (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An anthology about the power of teachers and their capacity to shape lives, edited by award-winning teacher-librarian Megan Daley of Children's Book Daily and the Your Kid's Next Read podcast. Featuring contributions from Jessie Tu,Tony Birch,Rick Morton,Jacqueline Harvey + many more. The power of an ...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
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more