Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschlager
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism. In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his career, he risked everything to pursue his ...Show more
An Unlikely Prisoner: How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar’s Most Notorious Jail by Sean Turnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
How hope became one man's closest companion in his darkest hour. 'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar's terrifying Insei ...Show more
Karma: The definitive autobiography by Boy George
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The definitive autobiography from Culture Club frontman and LGBTQ+ icon, Boy George. Karma is the definitive autobiography from music icon, Boy George - the Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning lead singer of 80s pop/reggae band, Culture Club, since its inception in 1981.Boy George has led a colo ...Show more
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester
$55.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
'Hester is a fizzingly brilliant writer' Robert MacFarlane 'Diarmuid Hester's beautifully written psycho-biography explores obscure corners of places as sites of hidden queer histories ... haunted and haunting - totally riveting' Chris Kraus At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloi ...Show more
The Nature of Honour by David McBride
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Son, father, soldier, lawyer, adventurer, crusader - tells the colourful and fascinating life story of David McBride. Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsi ...Show more
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
$75.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) an ...Show more
Naomi Osaka by Ben Rothenberg
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
This deeply revealing biography of tennis phenomenon Naomi Osaka tells the story behind her grand slam-winning career and her advocacy for racial justice and mental health. Most tennis fans met the Haitian-American-Japanese player Naomi Osaka for the first time as they watched her win the 2018 US Open i ...Show more
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." --Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigo ...Show more
Alan Joyce and Qantas: The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon by Peter Harbison; Derek Sadubin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Alan Joyce & Qantas - The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon is the fascinating, unauthorised story of Alan Joyce's meteoric rise and turbulent 15-year tenure as the CEO of Qantas. The twists and turns of the last 15 years of the Qantas story contains all the ingredients of a corporate ...Show more
Big Mouth by Matt Preston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
A rock n roll memoir of death, guns and the occasional scandal. For a man who has been in the public eye for a decade or more, Matt Preston has been very quiet about his past and private life. Now, in Big Mouth, he opens up for the first time in a story that, like Matt himself, is joyous, funny and lar ...Show more
By My Hands by Florian Gadsby
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The internet's favorite potter opens up about his life and craft in this inspiring, stunningly photographed ode to the beauty of small things that brighten life's daily rituals.Florian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection--and as his skill has gr ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir by Sam Neill
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more