Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...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
Model Minority Gone Rogue: How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script by Qin Qin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Lisa Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don't rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority. But doing everything right? It made her lost and miserable. So she decided to take a spectacular ri ...Show more
Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country by Ryan Cropp
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could changeIn the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity ...Show more
Still Standing by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
There are few more moving experiences than for the silenced to be heard. Chrissie Foster is the mother who brought the rich and powerful Catholic Church to its knees over its global abuse of children, including two of her daughters, Emma and Katie. Like the Boston Globe's Spotlight team, she built an un ...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
In Bad Faith: Inside a secret ultra-Orthodox sect and the brutal betrayal it tried to hide by Dassi Erlich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I am a sexual abuse survivor, but I am also more than a survivor. I will continue fighting for justice for all victims.' Dassi Erlich grew up in St Kilda East, the fourth of seven children born to parents who had joined one of the strictest ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the world. As a girl, he ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"GIRL, INTERRUPTED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 'Spellbinding' - JENNETTE MCCURDY 'It's extraordinary... make your way to this book.' - SARAH JESSICA PARKER Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartl ...Show more
Strap Yourself In: A memoir of motherhood, dancefloors and all the mayhem in between by Amy Gerard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A laugh-out-loud, deeply relatable memoir challenging our unrealistic expectations of motherhood and life, from the Instagram sensation and host of Beyond the Likespodcast In a world of highly curated Instagram pages and unrealistic expectations of motherhood, Amy Gerard is a gust of fresh air. She does ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
An Innocent Baby: Why Would Anyone Abandon Little Darcy-May? by Cathy Glass
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be brought to Cathy with a police escort as it's vital her ext ...Show more