Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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 i ...Show more
Helena Rubinstein: The Australian Years by Angus Trumble
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behind This meticulously researched and wryly entertaining portrait of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) focuses on the years she spent in Australia as a young woman, recoveri ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Published in book form for the first time, Annie Ernaux's Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm inDecember 2022, translated by Alison L. Strayer. WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diar ...Show more
Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend by Rose Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her spectacular acts of defiance. Bee Miles was famous for appearing in public in towns and cities across Australia, breaking their rules, and living, she said 'recklessly'. But she was no ordinary w ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared ...Show more
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer (translator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." -Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigor ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Quaint Deeds: Unlikely Adventures in Teaching and Treasure-hunting: A Memoir by A.J. Mackinnon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your own way in life. A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon is best known to readers as a much-loved travel writer. But between eccentric voyages, he has for almost forty ye ...Show more
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years ol ...Show more
Shame by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (translator)
$22.99 AUD
$24.99 (8% off)
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. Wi ...Show more