The World According To Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigourous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbre ...Show more
Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider by Mohammad Chowdhury
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Whether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury’s life travelling the world brings daily challenges.Border Crossings takes you on a thrilling ride from the city of minarets to the heights of picture-perfect skyscrapers. A jo ...Show more
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps When Jozsef Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five m ...Show more
The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir by Jami Nakamura Lin
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo - the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons - to shift the cultural narrative around mental illness, grief, and remembrance. ...Show more
My Father's Shadow: A Memoir by Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
My father, political activist Samuel Mark Goldbloom, was my hero and my nemesis all the days of his life. Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo grew up in thrall to her father, a prominent socialist and covert member of the Communist Party. From an early age, she adopted his political beliefs, becoming a supporter of ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
Mood. A memoir of love, identity & mental health by Roz Bellamy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Mood is a memoir that perfectly suits our times, and our collective journey to understand how we are shaped by our identities. It is a testament to hard-won growth through self-knowledge. Roz Bellamy is a first-generation Jewish Australian who identifies as non-binary. They met their wife, Rachel, as ...Show more
Life Keeps Me Dancing: 108 years well lived, grounded in creativity, adventure and love by Eileen Kramer
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I am not old. I have just been here for a long time.' Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; ...Show more
Nicky Winmar: My Story by Nicky Winmar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Thirty years after creating one of the most memorable moments in sporting history, Indigenous AFL legend Nicky Winmar tells his story in a moving and compelling memoir. FROM BUSH KID TO AFL LEGEND Sport is made up of moments that thrill us at the time and quickly disappear. Very few endure for deca ...Show more
The House With All The Lights On: Three generations, one roof, a language of light by Jessica Kirkness
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'If I were to tell you our story in sign language—the story of my grandparents and me—I'd begin with a single finger touching my chest.' Jessica Kirkness has traversed the boundary between deaf and hearing cultures all her life. Her memoir tells the story of her grandparents who grew up deaf in a he ...Show more
Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Tony Kelly, Rebecca Lister
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Rebecca Lister and Tony Kelly move from Melbourne to Mount Isa to care for Rebecca's elderly mother, Diana, they have no idea what they've signed up for. The isolation, sweltering heat and limited employment opportunities make settling into the mining town a challenge. While Rebecca deals with her ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more