Love's Work by Gillian Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An extraordinary, uncompromising and consoling celebration of a life - through childhood, faith, family, love, friendship, pain and loss - written as its author was facing her own mortality Gillian Rose was a star academic, acclaimed as one of the most dazzling and original thinkers of her time. Told th ...Show more
Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk by Dominic Gordon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour. What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds ...Show more
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charit ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
H. V. Doc Evatt has long been obscured by Menzie's broad shadow, as the Labor Opposition Leader through the prosperous and complacent 1950s. In this book, one of our finest writers and sharpest minds shows Evatt in his true light: the most brilliant Australian of his day. Inspiring, cosmopolitan and hu ...Show more
Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life by Clem Bastow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Introducing a bold new voice in Australian nonfiction, Late Bloomer is a heartfelt coming-of-age memoir that will change the way you think about autism. Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she'd missed a key memo on human behaviour. She found the unspoken rules of social engagement confusing, arbitrary a ...Show more
More than Love by Natasha Gregson Wagner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
More Than Love is a memoir of loss, grief, and coming of age, set amid Hollywood glamour and royalty, by Natasha Gregson Wagner, the oldest daughter of Natalie Wood and her second husband Richard Gregson. Beginning with the night Natalie Wood went sailing on the family boat with her husband Robert Wagne ...Show more
Our Sunburnt Country by Anika Molesworth
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anika Molesworth fell in love with her family's farm, a sheep station near Broken Hill, at an early age. She formed a bond with the land as though it were a member of her family. When the Millennium Drought hit, though, bringing with it extreme heat and dust storms, the future she'd always imagined for ...Show more
My Accidental Career by Brenda Niall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Australia's leading biographer Brenda Niall, now in her nineties, turns the spotlight on her own story in this fascinating memoir of a remarkable life and career Brenda Niall, arguably Australia's foremost biographer, looks back on her own life and the circumstances, events and choices that shaped her ...Show more
The House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India's Most Glamorous Royal Family by John Zubrzycki
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Jaipurs were India's mid-century golden couple; its answer to the Kennedys, or Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Jai and Ayesha, as they were known to friends like Frank Sinatra, Truman Capote and 'Dickie' Mountbatten, entertained lavishly at their magnificent palaces and hunting lodges in Rajastha ...Show more
Bert: The Entertaining Life of Australia's Favourite TV Star by Graeme Blundell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
TV and radio star, interviewer and all - round media personality, Bert Newton's career spans the decades. He ruled the radio sets of Melbourne in the 1950s - when another young blade, Graham Kennedy, was also on the air - then made the transition to the box. Whether on television, radio or more recently ...Show more
Scrubbed: A heart surgeon's extraordinary memoir of life, death and everything in between by Nikki Stamp
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki Stamp.
Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg by Peter Scott-Morgan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary true story of the man who decided to live foreverPeter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband. His family. His friends. His ability to travel the world. All will be gone. But Peter will not give up. He vows that this will not be the end and i ...Show more