Don't Be Too Polite, Girls: A memoir by Wendy McCarthy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Educator, activist, agent of change - the life and career of one of Australia's most influential women. 'McCarthy's advocacy and passion for women's rights has spurred a new generation. We wouldn't be where we are without her.' Sydney Morning Herald, 'Who Mattered in 2019' 'A woman of kindness and str ...Show more
Merlyn: The Life and Times of Merlyn Baillieu Myer by Michael Shmith
$80.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The illustrious life of Merlyn Baillieu Myer (1900-1982) spanned more than three-quarters of the twentieth century. Born in Queenscliff, on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, the third of four children of a prosperous family of hoteliers, Merlyn was propelled from being a shy and timid child into becoming ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer It's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in ...Show more
The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Ben Bravery
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally wh ...Show more
Ratbag, Soldier, Saint-Issy Smith VC by Lian Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Lian Knight has recreated the amazing life of her grandfather, a war hero. What has been published about him is extraordinary – 2000 newspaper articles, many printed more than a century ago. Yet almost nothing written about him is consistent. The press varied his name, his age, his place of birth, where ...Show more
Smart, Stupid and Sixty by Nigel Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the bestselling author of Fat, Forty and Fired comes this entertaining, thought-provoking and poignant account of turning sixty. Twenty years ago, Nigel Marsh was an overweight mortgage slave struggling to balance a career, marriage and four children under eight. Until he lost his job. In Fat, Fo ...Show more
The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year. Matthieu Aikins, a ...Show more
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On 21 November 1915, the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship, finally succumbed to the immense pressures of the surrounding ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, just like that, it was gone. Over a century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatc ...Show more
Bohemian Negligence by Bertie Blackman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The celebrated musician's evocative and intimate memoir of the magic and vulnerability of her bohemian childhood growing up as the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman. If you could touch your memories, how would they feel? My first memory of life is blurry. A blurry red dot. A strawberry in a thi ...Show more
Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the vein of Tara Westover's Educated, Daniella Mestyanek's memoir is a searing and powerful testament to a woman's ability to transform the circumstances of her life through inner strength and resilience. Told in a beautiful, propulsive voice and with clear-eyed honesty, Uncultured first takes us beh ...Show more
Jan Morris: life from both sides by Paul Clements
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The first full account of a truly remarkable life. When Jan Morris passed away in 2020, she was considered one of Britain's best-loved writers. The author of Venice, Pax Britannica, Conundrum, and more than fifty other books, her work was known for its observational genius, lyricism, and humour, and ha ...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