Smash Cut by Brad Gooch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City-a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passions-with cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and a host of others legendary ar ...Show more
The Great Agnostic - Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought by Susan Jacoby
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A biography that restores /robert Ingersoll--America's foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism--to our still-contested twenty-first-century public square "Jacoby makes the case that Americans are dearly indebted to Ingersoll, and would be well-served to revisit his life and writing ...Show more
At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew Greig
$21.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I should like you to fish for me at the Loch of the Green Corrie,' MacCaig commanded months before his death. 'Go to Lochinver and ask for a man named Norman MacAskill - if he likes you he may tell you where it is. If you catch a fish, I shall be delighted. If you fail, then looking down from a place i ...Show more
Aftershocks - Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
*** ONE OF BARAK OBAMA'S 'BEST BOOKS OF 2021' *** 'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST 'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES 'Brilliant and devastating...tender and lacerating' PANDORA SYKES 'One of the literary world's most promising new voices' RED I have lived in disaster and d ...Show more
Franklin and Eleanor - An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinised partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer, to Eleanor's purported lesbi ...Show more
The Elm Grove Story - A Mystical Journey by Edwin and Laurel Lloyd-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Diana Mosley by Anne De Courcy
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom ...Show more
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest - A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding by Eoghan Daltun
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
On the Beara peninsula in West Cork, a temperate rainforest flourishes. It is the life work of Eoghan Daltun, who had a vision to rewild a 73-acre farm he bought, moving there from Dublin with his family in 2009. An Irish Atlantic Rainforest charts that remarkable journey. Part memoir, part environment ...Show more
Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean by Brett Archibald
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
If you were terrified watching Open Water or The Shallows, or suffered along with Aron Ralston through his ordeal in 127 Hours, you will find this true story of Brett Archibald's ordeal, lost overboard in the Indian Ocean, absolutely extraordinary. 'When I heard Brett had fallen overboard, after twelve ...Show more
Nile Wilson - My Story by Nile Wilson
$44.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The down-to-earth Olympic medalist tells the story of the pressures and mental health struggles behind his successful gymnastic career. Nile Wilson is known to many as the gymnast who won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and England's most successful gymnast ever at a Commo ...Show more
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - My family, the holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home office, and piles of children's books for when my ...Show more
The Tiger Man of Vietnam by Frank Walker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser.
'This book drips with adventure and intrigue' THE AGE In 1963, Australian Army Captain Barry Petersen was sent to Vietnam. It was one of the most tightly held secrets of the Vietnam War. Petersen was ordered to train and lead guerrilla squads of Montagnard tribesmen against the Viet Cong in the remote C ...Show more