Growing Up in Australia by BLACK INC.
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Growing Up
This special collection is the perfect introduction to Black Inc.'s definitive 'Growing Up' series. Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, it captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory w ...Show more
Mission: Essays, Speeches & Ideas by Noel Pearson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Mission traces a life of politics, ideas and inspiring words. Whether he is evoking his early life among the Guugu Yimithirr Aboriginal people at Hope Vale, Queensland, or making an eloquent case for Indigenous recognition, or outlining his vision of a reconciled, multicultural Australia, Noel Pearson c ...Show more
Lawson by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the hopes, dreams and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, of fierce independent ...Show more
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows - A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as 'the most important artist work ...Show more
Renegades - Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen; Barack Obama
$75.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus con ...Show more
Larrimah: A missing man, an eyeless croc and an outback town of 11 people who mostly hate each other by Caroline Graham, Kylie Stevenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A dying town, a missing man. One of Australia's greatest mysteries - two whodunnits, twisted together. Larrimah: hot, barren, a speck of dust in the centre of the nothingness of outback Australia. Where you might find a death adder in the bar and a spider or ten in the toaster. Maybe it's stupid to writ ...Show more
Whole Notes by Ed Ayres
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves? One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening or playing, we know ourselv ...Show more
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men who Tried to Make her Disappear by Kate Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was, until the first Woman's Rights Convention was held in 1 ...Show more
Home Truths: A Memoir (HB) by David Williamson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The definitive memoir of David Williamson, author of iconic dramas such as The Removalists, The Club, Don's Party, Emerald City and Travelling North , as well as more than fifty other plays, explores the life of the writer and the true stories and real lives that inspired his works. A powerful force in ...Show more
Seeking Asylum: Our Stories by Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The voices Australia should hear This beautifully illustrated hardback captures the stories of those who have lived the experience of seeking asylum. In their own voices, contributors share how they came to be in Australia, and explore diverse aspects of their lives- growing up in a refugee camp, study ...Show more
It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This by Lisa Wilkinson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The long-awaited autobiography from one of Australia's most popular, much-loved and enduring media stars, Lisa Wilkinson. Lisa Wilkinson has lived her life in the public eye. One of Australia's most admired and respected journalists and media personalities, her warm, intelligent and elegant presence has ...Show more
Taste - My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the kitchen Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent ev ...Show more