My Unapologetic Diaries by Joan Collins
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'These diaries are like their author - fabulously entertaining, impossibly glamorous, and utterly irresistible' Piers MorganThese are Dame Joan Collins' 'uncensored diaries'. Often outrageous, the entries were almost written entirely in real time. Most were done within ten hours of the events Joan descr ...Show more
Skywriting - Making Radio Waves by Robyn Ravlich
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Skywriting - making radio waves is at once the captivating story of contemporary Australian cultural life and a personal biography of an acclaimed 'radio poet', whose signature radio features and documentaries on ABC RN have creatively conveyed ideas, personalities, and places. Timely and revelatory, it ...Show more
Everesting: The Challenge for Cyclists: Conquer Everest Anywhere in the World by Matt de Neef
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Everesting is your introduction to the extreme cycling challenge that is taking the world by storm. To complete an 'Everesting' is to cycle the height of Mt. Everest (8,848 meters) by ascending and descending a single hill or mountain continuously without breaking to sleep. It's phenomenally challenging ...Show more
On All Fronts by Clarissa Ward
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"On All Fronts takes the reader on a riveting journey of storytelling. . . From Russia to China to Syria, [she] navigate[s] the most intense of human experiences while finding the tools to stay emotional."--Lynsey Addario, author of It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War The recipient of ...Show more
Caught In The Act: A Memoir by Courtney Act by Courtney Act (Shane Jenek)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
As Courtney Act, Shane Jenek has built a career as a drag queen, spokesperson, advocate, singer and all around performer with a strong (and beautiful) voice and advocate for change. Courtney uses her dazzling commercial profile to open up positive conversations about gender, sexuality, body image and id ...Show more
The Fairytale: A real and imagined history of Australian sport by H.G. Nelson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A sporting nation is only limited by its imagination. Every time this story is told it changes; something is always added, embellished or dropped from the run-on side. For more than thirty years, H.G. Nelson has been finding the poetry in the punt and humour during half-time. Now, he turns his keen eye ...Show more
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The untold story of race and power in Australia's Jazz AgeThe 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster-and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful ...Show more
From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in po ...Show more
A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind by Ann Wolbert Burgess
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and development of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers. Directly beneath the progressive activism and sex positivity of the 1970s, a dark undercu ...Show more
Bush School by Peter O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond. There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang e ...Show more
My Accidental Career by Brenda Niall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Diagnosis Normal: Living with abuse, undiagnosed autism, and COVID-grade crazy by Emma A. Jane
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Combining brilliant storytelling with rigorous research, Diagnosis Normal is an incisive and darkly funny memoir from journalist turned academic Emma Jane.'I have three gears- glum melancholy, inappropriate outbursts, and extreme slapstick. On a good day, I can pass as normal but not for too many minute ...Show more