My Tongue is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood: Winner of the 2023 National Biography Award by Ann-Marie Priest
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A masterful portrait of a major Australian writer, her incandescent poetry and her battles to be heard in a male-dominated literary establishment. The first biography of Gwen Harwood (1920-1995), one of Australia's most significant and distinctive poets. Harwood is renowned for her brilliance, but love ...Show more
Big Mouth by Matt Preston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A rock n roll memoir of death, guns and the occasional scandal. For a man who has been in the public eye for a decade or more, Matt Preston has been very quiet about his past and private life. Now, in Big Mouth, he opens up for the first time in a story that, like Matt himself, is joyous, funny and lar ...Show more
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond by Henry Winkler
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Henry Winkler, launched into prominence by his role as 'The Fonz' in the beloved TV series "Happy Days", has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny and widely regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the case, he's ju ...Show more
Thicker than Water by Kerry Washington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the deeply moving journey of her life so far, and the bravely intimate story of discovering her truth.While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message that would send ...Show more
Unheard Voices : Finding Language and Belonging in the Deaf and Hearing Worlds by Dawn Mauldon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A daughter's telling of finding language and belonging in the Deaf and hearing worlds.In this poignant and powerful memoir, the author tells the story of both her mother's childhood - growing up deaf in the 1920s in rural Victoria - and her own childhood with Deaf parents. Through intimate and evocative ...Show more
Lies My Mirror Told Me: A Frank, Funny, Fearless Memoir by Wendy Harmer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Entertainer and national treasure Wendy Harmer tells all in her frank, fearless and funny memoir, Lies My Mirror Told Me. 'I've always believed where there's a chance, you have to take it . . . or invent it.' Wendy Harmer has had an extraordinary life. From being born with a severe facial deformity, t ...Show more
Beeswax and Tall Tales: Memories of an Aussie Antique Dealer by Jane Crowley, Athol Salter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As an antique dealer, Athol Salter has peddled in other people's stories for over sixty years. From humble beginnings in his Junque Shop in country New South Wales in the 1960s to Dirty Janes in the Southern Highlands, he has rummaged through ramshackle huts, dealt with dubious property from deceased es ...Show more
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller o ...Show more
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier by Doug Gold
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The true story of an escaped soldier hiding out in the house of a Greek dressmaker who is secretly a resistance fighter. It's an epic love story against the odds, set during the Nazi occupation of Greece in WW2. Peter Blunden, a New Zealand soldier captured in Crete, jumps from a train and escapes from ...Show more
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl; Jeroen De Bruyn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Much has been written about Anne Frank's life, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold - until now.As the youngest of the five Dutch people who hid the Frank family, Bep Voskuijl was Anne's closest confidante during the 761 excruciating days she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. In those cramp ...Show more
Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From award-winning journalist Julia Baird, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Phosphorescence, comes Bright Shining, a luminously beautiful, deeply insightful and most timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace. Grace is both mysterious and hard to defin ...Show more