Chanel: An Intimate Life by Lisa Chaney
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In "Chanel: An Intimate Life", acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era. Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She ...Show more
Round the Bend by Jeremy Clarkson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Jeremy Clarkson gets really riled in Round the Bend. What's it like to drive a car that's actively trying to kill you? This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions of power-crazed traffic wombles at ...Show more
Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Her ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: good
The true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, turned the situation to his advantage to become one of the world's greatest ballet stars. Li tells his story with charm and simplicity, wit ...Show more
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulti ...Show more
Judi: Behind the Scenes by Judi Dench
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An illustrated memoir of one of Britain's greatest and best-loved actors. 'National treasure? I hate that. Too dusty, too in a cupboard, too behind glass, too staid ... What I love is being part of a company. On stage I am not trying to be myself, I'm trying to be someone else, the more unlike me the b ...Show more
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter by Matthew Dennison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three "tales," M ...Show more
First Lady : The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill by Sonia Purnell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Without Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour and repelled the Nazi menace. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never have become Prime Minister. By his own admission, the Second World War would have been 'impossible without her'. Clementine was Win ...Show more
My First Memory by Ben Holden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
WHAT IS YOUR FIRST MEMORY? Or, rather, what do you imagine to be your earliest memory? Perhaps, alternatively, there was a moment during childhood when the world's axis shifted? A transformative realisation, epiphany or experience that changed the course of your life: your very own 'sense of a begin ...Show more
Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain by Sarah Vallance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The searing, wry memoir about a woman's fight for a new life after a devastating brain injury. When Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a jarring blow to the head, she believes she's walked away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she's led from work to the emergency ...Show more
Her Kind of Luck: Violin Prodigy, a Guinness-World Record Holder, a Suspected Spy, a Grandmother by Michelle Balogh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In her mid-twenties, rudderless and unsure, Michelle moved into her step- great-grandmother Shan-Yi's Sydney apartment just after her passing. Shan-Yi had been part of Michelle's family since long before she was born and staying at the glamourous art deco apartment was meant to help Michelle back on her ...Show more
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mum comics on stage but ...Show more