These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Following the acclaimed No Visible Bruises, a piercing account of the author's childhood in an Evangelic Christian community, her teenage escape, and her career as a reporter at the frontline of the global epidemic of violence against women.Award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder has spent her car ...Show more
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family. Lov ...Show more
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human exper ...Show more
My Mother and I by Ingrid Seward
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A vivid and revealing portrait of the real relationship between King Charles III and his mother, by the esteemed royal biographer, Ingrid Seward - perfect for fans of the popular Netflix TV series The Crown.The relationship between the late monarch and her son, the King, has long been a subject of fasci ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
Gather Together In My Name (#2) by Maya Angelou
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In Gather Together In My Name Maya Angelou continues her stunning autobiography. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate and mellow, she fills the pages with both wisdom and wonder as she brings us along in her struggle and dance through life. a heroic and beautiful book. -- Cleveland Plain Dea ...Show more
Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by John Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. ...Show more
Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys. by Viv Albertine
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARMOJO BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar. A year later, she was the guitarist ...Show more
All Creatures Great and Small: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet by James Herriot
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. This edition contains If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet. Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket ...Show more
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by William Boyd, Alistair Owen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life o ...Show more
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem ...Show more