The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Stella Prize 2019 Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon. Telling the story of a splintered family, a mother who is unlike any other, and her daughters who have no choice but to come to the rescue, The Erratics has the tightly compressed energy of an explosive device. ...Show more
Accidental Tour Guide: Adventures in Life and Death by Mary Moody
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Eat, Pray, Love meets The Year of Magical Thinking in this powerful memoir of love, loss and taking risks from a true adventurer The irrepressible Mary Moody knows better than anyone the joy of breaking new ground and discovering new frontiers. She is the bestselling author of Au Revoir and Last Tango I ...Show more
Janis - Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Reading Level: very good
It's been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the 'creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation's mythology'. But how did a middle-class girl from Texas become a '60s countercultural icon? Janis' parents doted on her and promoted her early talent for art. But the arrival of a brother shat ...Show more
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself ...Show more
Buckley's Chance by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 3 Biography
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: near fine
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
In a book whose charm and erudition recalls 84 Charing Cross Road or Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead, one of our most prolific and respected authors, Debra Adelaide, shares a joyous and plaintive glimpse into a reading and writing life.This mercurial work is much more than memoir, much more ...Show more
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. No one has lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime ...Show more
Penny Wong: Passion And Principle - The Biography by Margaret Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from workplace relations to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide. In this first-ever biography of Penny Wong, a ...Show more
Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography (HB) by Helen Ennis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A landmark biography of a singular and important Australian photographer, Olive Cotton, by an award-winning writer - beautifully written and deeply moving. Olive Cotton was one of Australia's pioneering modernist photographers, whose significant talent was recognised as equal to her first husband, the f ...Show more
The Memory Pool: Stories from Australian Childhoods at the Pool by Therese Spruhan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Smell the chlorine, taste the hot chips and feel the burning concrete underfoot as you read these stories of Australian childhoods at the pool. Swimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool – whether it’s an ocean, tidal or a chl ...Show more
Bowie's Books - The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life (HB) by John O'Connell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Reading Level: 3 Biography
David Bowie once said that his idea of perfect happiness was reading. Three years before he died, he made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Lolita to Madame Bovary, the Beano to The Iliad, these were the books that ...Show more