Everest, Guns and Money by CHRIS DEWHIRST
$39.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In the autumn of 1973, Chris Dewhirst was living and working in Yosemite National Park, and part of a counterculture group of rock climbers tackling some of the most difficult climbs on the planet. One night, while four friends were perched high on the side of El Capitan, a plane crashed into a back-cou ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Galah: Stories of Life Outside the City by Annabelle Hickson
$69.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed chapters, journalist Annabelle Hickson shares a different perspective on life in regional Australia, featuring stories from the coast to the f ...Show more
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year la ...Show more
The World of Mab Grimwade by Thea Gardiner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An exquisitely packaged hardback revealing the untold story of an influential Australian philanthropist. Born into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly (1887-1973), or 'Mab' to those who knew her, would grow up to make an enormous contribution to the a ...Show more
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration from Elizabeth Gilbert's books for years. Now, this beloved author shares her wisdom and unique understanding of creativity, shattering the perceptions of mystery and suffering that surround the process - and showing us all just how easy it ca ...Show more
The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam Wasson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A visionary who was ahead of his time, the book presents Francis Ford Coppola's great adventure in film-making.Say 'Coppola' and The Godfather immediately comes to mind. But Coppola isn't Corleone -- he's more than that. He's a visionary who predicted that digital cameras - no larger than one's hand - ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism – Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has led a remarkable life. Power of Balance is a landmark memoir that explores the events and ideas that have inspired and provoked her in working to create change. One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as p ...Show more
Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change, from the bestselling author of CLEO and BONO by Helen Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo, a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped guide the way. It was 1966 and the times they were a-changing, even in the provincial New Zealand coastal town of New Plymo ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
Widow Basquiat - A Memoir by Jennifer Clement
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Canons | Reading Level: near fine
Madonna. Andy Warhol. Keith Haring. Fab 5 Freddie. Debbie Harry. Julian Schnabel. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and aspiring stars. Unable to deal with the demands that his ...Show more
In Bad Faith: Inside a secret ultra-Orthodox sect and the brutal betrayal it tried to hide by Dassi Erlich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'I am a sexual abuse survivor, but I am also more than a survivor. I will continue fighting for justice for all victims.' Dassi Erlich grew up in St Kilda East, the fourth of seven children born to parents who had joined one of the strictest ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the world. As a girl, he ...Show more