Between Friends by Claudia Fitzherbert (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Hotlby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship that created a model for a new kind of independent woman, after the First World War. This is a literary relationship that began when the women met at Somerville ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Losing the Plot by Derek Owusu
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE - FICTION 2023'A highly enigmatic, affectionate and robustly writtenportrayal of a mother-son relationship . . . very relatable ...Show more
Love Me Tender by Constance Debré; Peter Straus (Editor); Hedi El Kholti (Editor); Holly James (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Constance told her ex-husband that she was dating women, he made a string of unfounded accusations that separated her from her young son, Paul. Laurent trained Paul to say he no longer wants to see his mother, and the judge believed him. She approaches this new life with passionate intensity and th ...Show more
Every Cripple a Superhero by Christoph Keller
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times'A defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page' Morning Star'A skilful act of literary witness, sharp, moving and funny' Joanne Limburg'Christoph Keller ... ranks among the great Swiss writers' Neue Zürche ...Show more
The Secret Heart - Le Carré and Me: Tales from a Secret Love Affair by Suleika Dawson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022 A Waterstones Best Book of 2022: Biography The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life John le Carré le ...Show more
The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Reissue of this sweeping, poignant account of generations of the author's Russian family: a story of revolution, exile and the search for roots'A vividly fascinating account by a gifted writer who sweeps back the curtain from the past, revealing it full of color and life.' New York Times Book Review'Thi ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, ad ...Show more
Happening by Annie Ernaux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. I ...Show more
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with ...Show more