Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan ...Show more
Soar by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fifty years since he stepped into his first ballet class, McAllister reflects on his dance journey, his relationships, embracing his sexuality, and the combination of talent, timing and sheer perseverance that gave rise to his transformative career.
All About Yves: Notes from a transition by Yves Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A timely and thought-provoking memoir about the trans experience. Was I always trans, part boy beneath my skin, or was it that I landed in a place where 'girl' was a container so small it could break your bones? I learn that a ready smile and sympathetic ear are the only props required to impersonate a ...Show more
Prison Break: Shantaram to the Bangkok Hilton, The World's Most Wanted Australians by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The real stories behind Gregory Roberts, John Killick and Australia's most daring prison escapes. In his global bestselling novel Shantaram, Gregory Roberts based his fiction on fact. He was once Australia's most wanted man - a prison escapee who went on to live an extraordinary life in India and beyond ...Show more
My Friend Fox by Heidi Everett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The fox sits on the outer waiting for me to discover him because at the moment, I am on the outer too. He watches me. Can you see him? He's clever at hiding. Heidi Everett has long felt the weight of her mental health record, which she has carried along with her from GP clinics to psych wards, social w ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth (Illustrated Edition) by Eddie Jaku
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. During the Holocaust, Eddie Jaku faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He ...Show more
Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz by Gail Crowther
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A vividly rendered and empathetic biography of two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Introduced at a poetry workshop in Boston University, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton formed a friendship that would soon evolve into a fierce rivalry, colored by jealousy and respect ...Show more
On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
Scrubbed: A heart surgeon's extraordinary memoir of life, death and everything in between by Nikki Stamp
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki Stamp.
Poison for Teacher by Nancy Spain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Her detective novels are hilarious. They are high camp and less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a wonderful turn of phrase . . . Nancy Spain was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal' Sandi Toksvig A nasty attack of murder has broken out at Ra ...Show more
Happy As: Stories of summer, childhood and the magic of family by Larry Emdur
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Larry Emdur is one of Australia's most popular and enduring TV personalities. Happy As is a memoir of becoming Larry. Long before the game shows and morning TV, Larry Emdur was just Larry, a cheeky kid from Bondi who grew up paddling round the kiddies' pool on a foam surfboard, and rocking a safari suit ...Show more
Blessed: The Breakout Year of Rampaging Roy Slaven by John Doyle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Who is Rampaging Roy Slaven? An Australian icon, a raconteur, an athlete of unsurpassable - and some may say improbable - sporting feats. Whether training Rooting King to another Melbourne Cup victory, commentating the Olympics or hobnobbing with the country's upper crust, Rampaging Roy Slaven has lived ...Show more