The Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few have talked about. In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmani ...Show more
A Real Piece of Work: A Memoir in Essays by Erin Riley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for what my gender can be.' Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most- family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard g ...Show more
Broke: A story about love, when love is all you have by Sam Drummond
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A memoir about downward mobility, disability and hope. In Broke, lawyer and disability advocate Sam Drummond weaves a poignant, stirring and deeply humane tale of life on the fringes.
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
The Vitals by Tracy Sorensen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Deep inside Tracy's body live the organs of the peritoneal cavity. Ute, a wandering womb. Rage, an existential spleen. Gaster, a gleeful gorger. Liv, a workaholic liver. But there is also Baby, an ever-growing tumour. Together, the organs must fight for homeostasis ... and Tracy's survival. The Vitals ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder (H/B) by Kate Grenville
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man by Frances Peters-Little
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this first biography of the man and his music, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man tells the incredible story of one of Australia’s most acclaimed Aboriginal pop and country music legends and icons, Jimmy Little. At just 16 years of age, Jimmy Little travelled to Sydney to make his radio debut on Austral ...Show more
How We Love: Notes on a life by Clementine Ford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mothe ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge
$34.99 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent? As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her husband's a ...Show more