Memoir & Biography

I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

$16.99 AUD

Aged fifteen and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped in Sydney on a night out, sparking a series of events that left her devastatingly ill for more than ten years of her life. Her path to healing began a decade later, when she told someone about her rape for the ...Show more

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Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn

$32.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

Caro Llewellyn's family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her. Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysi ...Show more

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Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto

$24.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father Murtaza was murdered, along with six of his associates. In December 2007, Benaz ...Show more

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Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles

$34.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more

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Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch

$32.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

ARIA Award-winning singer and actress Clare Bowditch confronts her inner critic in this no-holds-barred memoir. This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write. Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her ...Show more

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Penny Wong: The Biography by Margaret Simons

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Category: Memoir & 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

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Just Kids Illustrated (HB) by Patti Smith

$59.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his ...Show more

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In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

$32.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Each ch ...Show more

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Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music (HB) by Archie Roach

$49.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

A 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 to find out who he real ...Show more

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Know My Name by Chanel Miller

$35.00 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

The riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose letter to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors.

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Yellow Notebook: Diaries, 1978-1986 (HB) by Helen Garner

$32.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

Leigh Sales: "An incredible insight into the thinking and writing processes of one of the greatest writers in Australian history." Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked awa ...Show more

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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

$32.99 AUD

Category: Memoir & Biography

All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?All Sloane wanted was to be admir ...Show more

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I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

$16.99 AUD

Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn

$32.99 AUD

Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto

$24.99 AUD

Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles

$34.99 AUD

Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch

$32.99 AUD

Penny Wong: The Biography by Margaret Simons

$34.99 AUD

Just Kids Illustrated (HB) by Patti Smith

$59.99 AUD

In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

$32.99 AUD

Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music (HB) by Archie Roach

$49.99 AUD

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

$35.00 AUD

Yellow Notebook: Diaries, 1978-1986 (HB) by Helen Garner

$32.99 AUD

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

$32.99 AUD

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