Before & After: The Incredible Story of the Real-life Mrs Wilson by Alison Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: BEFORE & AFTER
Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In 1940, whilst working as a secretary at MI6, Alison met Alexander Wilson. Thirty years her senior, Alexander was worldly and charismatic. An intense affair quickly led to ...Show more
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, ...Show more
Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions by Russell Brand
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
My qualification for writing this book is not that I am better than you; it's that I am worse. I am an addict-addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, money, love, and fame. This is the age of addiction, a condition so endemic, so all-encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you are fortunate enough to be an ext ...Show more
East West Street: On the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity by Philippe Sands
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: updated edition
Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for NonfictionWinner of the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize"A monumental achievement...a profoundly personal account of the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide, told with love, anger and precision." -John le Carré "A narrative, to my knowledge un ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free' The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert's fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Gu ...Show more
Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir by Kristina Olsson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An unforgettable story of the legacy of grief and guilt across generations, and the power of memory and faith.Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms as she boarded a train in the hot summer of 1950. Young and frightened and trying to escape a brutal marri ...Show more
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. ...Show more
How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' Tara Westover, author of Educated 'To read it is to believe that words can save' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'One of the most gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying memoirs I've ever read' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun There ...Show more
This One Wild and Precious Life - A hopeful path forward in a fractured world by Sarah Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
In This One Wild and Precious Life, Sarah Wilson explores the central disorder of modern existence: disconnection from ourselves, disconnection from community, disconnection from the preciousness of life on this planet . This One Wild and Precious Life is a journey of the soul, a case for why we need to ...Show more
Lady in Waiting - My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
**International Bestseller** **The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year** **One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020** An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The C ...Show more
Barefoot in the Bindis by Angela Wales
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Sheep Farming 1950's Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A circle of pine trees, a sagging wire fence, and a roof that was once painted red. 'There it is,' said Dad. In 1953, after doctors prescribed fresh country air for his health, Scottish-born Robert Wales uprooted his young family from the city life of Sydney and set out to establish a sheep farm i ...Show more
If You'd Just Let Me Finish by Jeremy Clarkson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In November 2016 we woke up to the news that the forthright presenter of a popular television programme had become the most powerful man on the planet. His name, sadly, was not Jeremy Clarkson, but we might not have been any more surprised if it had been. Because the world seems to have taken a decidedl ...Show more