Untwisted: The Story of My Life by Paul Jennings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Honest, insightful, funny - a brilliant memoir about writing and teaching and life from one of Australia's most loved children's authors. In the telling of his own tale, children's author and screenwriter Paul Jennings demonstrates how seemingly small events can combine into a compelling drama. As if as ...Show more
When Life Gives You Lemurs: How Saving Animals Saved Me by Deborah Kane, Tim Husband
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A compelling story, beautifully told, about how animals can show you a way forward.' - Richard Glover A story of the tender power of animals to heal broken humans. Tim Husband was born into a Jehovah's Witness family who spent their weekends delivering God's Word. Struggling to fit into this orthod ...Show more
Sassafras: A memoir of love, loss and MDMA therapy by Rebecca Huntley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When you know that you need help but conventional means have failed you, what is left is the unexpected. MDMA is a drug made from the oil of the root of the sassafras tree. It is known as a party drug, taken by people who want to have a good time, to dance, to shed their inhibitions. It has also, si ...Show more
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system
Radio Birdman: Retaliate First by Murray Engleheart
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first-ever in-depth biography of iconoclastic Sydney punk band Radio Birdman. Sydney's legendary Radio Birdman were a stake through the satin and scarfed hearts of the early seventies' music scene, revolutionising the conservative Australian industry in the process. Regarded as one of the earliest ...Show more
Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community by Alyssa Huynh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A collection of essays and advice about navigating racism in modern Australia, and creating your own safe space, for those who have faced racial discrimination and their allies. I’ve played the role of the quiet and embarrassed Asian girl who shyly laughs along more than I should have in my lifetime. ...Show more
Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia: A Groundbreaking Collection of Torres Strait Islander Voices, Past and Present by Samantha Faulkner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"My people are expert navigators, adventurers, innovators, ambassadors, teachers, storytellers, performers, strategists, chefs and advocates for change. The blood runs deep when I reflect on the past and the present and imagine what our future might look like." -Leilani Bin-Juda What makes Zenadth Kes/ ...Show more
Ask Jules: Love yourself and live your dream by Jules Robinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Get ready to transform your life with honest, first-hand advice from the beloved TV personality, entrepreneur, wife and mother. Since finding love on Married at First Sight, Jules Robinson has had a whirlwind five years – she got married (for real), had a baby, and became a purpose-driven entrepreneur ...Show more
Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"GIRL, INTERRUPTED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 'Spellbinding' - JENNETTE MCCURDY 'It's extraordinary... make your way to this book.' - SARAH JESSICA PARKER Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartl ...Show more
Your Time Starts Now: Food and Fame, Failure and Freedom: The Life Story of Australia’s First MasterChef by Julie Goodwin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The extraordinary life story of Australia's beloved Julie Goodwin, first winner of MasterChef and bestselling cookbook author Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In many ways her win was unlikely. As a child Julie adored music and art, but her ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more