A Real Piece of Work: A Memoir in Essays by Erin Riley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
'Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for what my gender can be.' Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most- family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard g ...Show more
A Scar is Also Skin (PB) by Ben Mckelvey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
From bestselling author Ben Mckelvey comes the inspiring story of stroke, heart attack, survival and remaking a broken body and mind. A book for those who bought Sarah Wilson's First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Osher Gunsberg's Back, After the Break and Emma Carey's The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. ...Show more
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s final days after she is hospitalized following a fall. Though a devout Catholic, her faith is subsumed by her terror of death, and as her body fails, she clings to ...Show more
An Autobiography (Angela Davis) by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: Memoir & Biography
A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. It is reissued now with a new introduction by Davis, for ...Show more
Ballet Confidential: A Personal Behind-the-Scenes Guide by David McAllister
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Beyond the formidable combination of tulle and lycra, how much can an audience ever truly understand about the demands of being a ballet dancer? What really is the pain and pleasure of pointe shoes and jockstraps? Can a wardrobe malfunction derail a scene? What happens when injury sidelines a principal ...Show more
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A. J. Liebling
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Category: Memoir & Biography
While on a year of study in Paris in 1927, Liebling acquired the friendship and tutelage of Yves Mirande, 'one of the last great gastronomes of France', beginning a joyous apprenticeship in the fine art of eating. Told with gluttonous joie de vivre, Between Meals expounds on the delights and pitfalls of ...Show more
Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider by Mohammad Chowdhury
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Whether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury’s life travelling the world brings daily challenges.Border Crossings takes you on a thrilling ride from the city of minarets to the heights of picture-perfect skyscrapers. A jo ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
Calypso by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you ...Show more
Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home by Sam Twyford-Moore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages.Australia has a long cinema history — starting with the world’s first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of Australia’s film talent goes to the United States, looking f ...Show more
Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more by Natasha Lunn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
*THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your heart in a much better place' StylistAfter years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships ...Show more
Dish: Spiels, Scoops, Emotional Outbursts and the Occasional Recipe by Rhys Nicholson
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Category: Memoir & Biography
This is a semi-stream-of-consciousness written tapestry, squeezed out by a profoundly apprehensive overthinker who’s doing their best to unapologetically stop apologising. (It’s funnier than it sounds.) Every now and then, when the planets align in just the right way, a book comes along that changes eve ...Show more