Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large ...Show more
The Coffin Confessor by William Edgar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the man in the coffin had a few things to say.'Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
H. V. Doc Evatt has long been obscured by Menzie's broad shadow, as the Labor Opposition Leader through the prosperous and complacent 1950s. In this book, one of our finest writers and sharpest minds shows Evatt in his true light: the most brilliant Australian of his day. Inspiring, cosmopolitan and hu ...Show more
Muddy People: A Memoir by Sara El Sayed
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How do you find yourself without losing your family? A memoir about growing up, breaking the rules and negotiating culture, from a new Australian voice.A hilarious, heartwarming memoir of growing up and becoming oneself in an Egyptian Muslim family At the turn of the millennium, Soos is growing up in an ...Show more
Die Laughing: The Biography of Bill Leak by Fred Pawle
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
How does a young man who learns jazz and classical piano, scours Europe's great art galleries for artistic enlightenment and falls in love with women from all over the world go on to become reviled as a bigot? The answer has less to do with him than it does with his critics. As cartoonist Bill Leak disc ...Show more
My Accidental Career by Brenda Niall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Australia's leading biographer Brenda Niall, now in her nineties, turns the spotlight on her own story in this fascinating memoir of a remarkable life and career Brenda Niall, arguably Australia's foremost biographer, looks back on her own life and the circumstances, events and choices that shaped her ...Show more
Missing by Tom Patterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
He was brilliant and troubled and for thirty-five years he lived alone in the wild... then there was silence Beautifully written and affecting, this is the true story of a young man caught in a world he can't control and how he finds a way to survive. 'This compelling, moving tale of a singular indivi ...Show more
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Word Cloud Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
A collection of short stories about Sherlock Holmes, the world’s greatest detective. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle’s second collection of stories featuring the world’s greatest detective, includes eleven tales of intrigue that will puzzle all but the mo ...Show more
Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Helen Elliott’s Eleven Letters to You is a profoundly original memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, before feminism. This sparkling, wonderfully absorbing book is written in the form of eleven letters to those neighbours, relatives, friends, ...Show more
Beeswax and Tall Tales: Memories of an Aussie Antique Dealer by Jane Crowley, Athol Salter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As an antique dealer, Athol Salter has peddled in other people's stories for over sixty years. From humble beginnings in his Junque Shop in country New South Wales in the 1960s to Dirty Janes in the Southern Highlands, he has rummaged through ramshackle huts, dealt with dubious property from deceased es ...Show more
Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent; Jukuna Mona Chuguna; Pat Lowe; Eirlys Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stations. T ...Show more
Patrick Stewart - Making It So - A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, MAKING IT SO, ...Show more