Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
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
Malachy: A father's story of love, laughter and loss by Dominic Frawley
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
A single moment has the power to change any life, forever. This is a story about what happens next.On 1st March 1999, Dom Frawley was a rural general practitioner, providing medical care to a few hundred families through a small cottage practice. He and his wife Maggie were due to deliver their fourth c ...Show more
Sophia Vega - M J Ryerson by Thomas A. Ryerson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
The Last Victim: A serial con man. The ultimate betrayal. An unbreakable woman. The full story behind the relationship made famous by the hit podcast Who the Hell is Hamish? by Tracy Hall, Summer Land
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
When Who the Hell is Hamish? hit podcast platforms in 2019, Tracy Hall quickly became known as the last victim of one of the world's most prolific con men, Hamish McLaren. At last, Tracy is sharing the full story of how she overcame financial and emotional betrayal in this fast-paced, witty and empoweri ...Show more
Growing up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: Growing Up
'No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.’ ‘I became acutely aware of ...Show more
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters by Brigitta Olubas (Editor); Susan Wyndham (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world. Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams and made occasi ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism – Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has led a remarkable life. Power of Balance is a landmark memoir that explores the events and ideas that have inspired and provoked her in working to create change. One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as p ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Imperfect by Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
By the time she was eleven and living in Russia, Lee Kofman had undergone several major operations on both a defective heart and injuries sustained in a bus accident. Her body harbours a constellation of disfiguring scars that have shaped her sense of self and her view of the world. But it wasn't until ...Show more
If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed by Margaret Tucker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a landmark publication. In that first edition, her tone and draft content were significantly al ...Show more
Out of Africa: Popular Penguins by Karen Blixen
$12.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life.'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.'From the moment Karen Blixen arriv ...Show more
Screw Loose by Peter Blazey; Tim Herbert (Epilogue by); Michael Kirby (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
First published twenty years ago by Picador, Peter Blazey's audacious, irresistible autobiography Screw Loose will be available in a revised edition with a foreword by the Honourable Michael Kirby. Candid and at times provocative, these self-styled "uncalled-for memoirs" encompass five decades in the li ...Show more