Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Garner is a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garner's work as 'intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.' PRAISE FOR EVERYWHERE I LOOK'A captivating collection...No matter the topic, Garner is a charming and courageous writer whose distinctive voice ...Show more
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani ; Omid Tofighian (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Writings from Manus Prison
Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and f ...Show more
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Barbara Leaming
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For almost six decades, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has fascinated people worldwide. The subject of numerous books and thousands of articles, her life has probably been documented in millions of words. And yet, there has always remained something mysterious, something private about this very public woman ...Show more
A House in the Sky : A Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything by Amanda Lindhout; Sara Corbett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The inspiring story of a woman who survived kidnap and being held captive for a year in war-torn Somalia . . . Amanda Lindhout loved to travel. She backpacked around the world, crossing borders, enthralled by what she encountered. This led her to becoming a reporter, working in war-ridden Afghanistan an ...Show more
Celeste: The Parisian Courtesan Who Became a Countess and Bestselling Writer by Roland Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Courtesan, countess, bestselling author - the tempestuous true story of a woman far ahead of her time ...The true story of the Countess Celeste de Chabrillan is a rich and tempestuous tale of an extraordinary woman. Born in the gutters of Paris in 1824, Celeste made her name as a dancer in the Parisian ...Show more
First they killed My Father by Loung Ung
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A daughter of Cambodia remembers. Soon to be a Netflix original movie directed by Angelina Jolie. Until age five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of an educated, high-ranking government official. When the Khmer Rouge stormed the city in 1975, the young girl and her family fled from ...Show more
A Tale of Love and Darkness (US PB) by Amos Oz
$29.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and ...Show more
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. Spectator Book of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. 'Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ...shrewd, thorough, revelatory.' William Boyd ' ...Show more
Becoming by Michelle Obama
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African American to ...Show more
Is it Just Me? by Miranda Hart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Well hello to you dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that adulthood offers no refuge from the unexpected horrors, peculiar lack of physical coordination and sometime ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more