House of Gucci - A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed by Sara Gay Forden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword. On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, was slain by an unknown gunman as he approached his Milan office. In 1998, his ex-wife Patrizia ...Show more
House of Kwa by Mimi Kwa
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Wild Swans meets Flesh Wounds in this riveting family saga spanning four generations The dreamer boy travelling on dragon hide ... a tiger running alone in the night ... Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her hair turned grey. Why would a father ...Show more
How Do You Want Me? by Ruby Wax
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
With a brand new introduction for 2020. How Do You Want Me?is critically acclaimed as brutally honest, vivid and gripping. Ruby Wax's unflinching revelation of a childhood poisoned, and a youth spoiled, culminates in a moving account of her breakdown and recovery. But How Do You Want Me?is also funny, r ...Show more
How I Clawed My Way to the Middle by John Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
'Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you!' I was flabbergasted. This I understood. A language that I spoke - had spoken most of my life. It was the best acting note I ever got. John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of hig ...Show more
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKThe moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness.This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that ...Show more
How Magicians Think by Jay, Joshua
$42.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
There's a saying: the door to magic is closed, but it's not locked. In How Magicians Think, professional magician and bestselling author Joshua Jay not only opens that door, he brings us inside and turns on the light, revealing the artistry, inside history, and fascinating traditions of a subject long s ...Show more
How Not To Be a Boy by Robert Webb
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERRobert Webb tried to follow the rules for being a man: Don't cryDrink beerPlay rough Don't talk about feelings Looking back over his life he asks whether these rules are actually any use. To anyone.
How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...Show more
How We Live Now - Scenes from the Pandemic by Bill Hayes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic. A bookstore where readers shout their orders from the street. A neighborhood restaurant turned to-go place where one has a shared drink--on either end of a bar--with the owner. ...Show more
How the West was One by Sue O'Brien (Editorial Coordinator); Karyn Howie (Editorial Coordinator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
How the West was One is a superb collection of memoirs, written by Australians, some very well known, who grew up in Melbourne's western suburbs.Ever wondered where Rob Sitch and Michael Leunig started out? Actor Kevin Harrington and musicians Mark Ferrie, Wendy Stapleton and Pat Wilson? You might be su ...Show more
How to Be Australian by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
When Ashley persuades her new husband Steve to leave snowy Canada and join her for a year Down Under, she looks forward to an easy transition. After all,Australia’s just Canada with more sunshine and strange animals, right? But they soon discover things aren’t so simple. Steve struggles to settle and A ...Show more
How to Be Between by Bastian Fox Phelan
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Young women’s bodies are relentlessly scrutinised and judged, so for most, the appearance of facial hair is a traumatic experience – unnatural, unfeminine, unwanted. But what happens when a female-assigned person decides to embrace their facial hair? In How to Be Between, Bastian Fox Phelan explores how ...Show more