Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
My Father's Shadow: A Memoir by Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
My father, political activist Samuel Mark Goldbloom, was my hero and my nemesis all the days of his life. Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo grew up in thrall to her father, a prominent socialist and covert member of the Communist Party. From an early age, she adopted his political beliefs, becoming a supporter of ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism – Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has led a remarkable life. Power of Balance is a landmark memoir that explores the events and ideas that have inspired and provoked her in working to create change. One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as p ...Show more
Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars by Abbas El-Zein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In Abbas El-Zein's new memoir, conflicts abound - either tragic or amusing, sometimes both - between teachers and students, left- and right-wing factions, civilians and militiamen and, not least, French and Arabic, two languages vying for primacy in the post-colonial worlds of Beirut and the Levant, wit ...Show more
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023"Brave and nuanced...an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph." --The New York Times"Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting." --Wall Street JournalOne of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of NonfictionAcclaimed author Jonathan Rosen's haunt ...Show more
There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's passing, her father's life, and her sister's suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. Three essays, three deaths. ...Show more
The History of My Sexuality by Tobi Lakmaker; Kristen Gehrman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Meet Sofie. The history of her sexuality begins when she loses her virginity to Walter the recruitment consultant. So, naturally, she thought that things could only improve from there. But she was wrong. It seems Sofie's been wrong about a lot of things. First, she thought she was into men: wrong. Then ...Show more
Look! We Have Come Through! - Living with D. H. Lawrence by Lara Feigel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A lovely, urgent, serious book' Tessa Hadley'Refreshing and unexpected' Daisy Hay, Financial TimesLara Feigel listens to birds outside her window - their circling, strident calls - and thinks of D. H. Lawrence. It is the spring of 2020 and, as the pandemic takes hold, she locks down in rural Oxfordshir ...Show more
The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?' Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London ...Show more
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by William Boyd, Alistair Owen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life o ...Show more
The Hero of this Book: 'A sublime gift' Meg Mason by Elizabeth McCracken
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A Book of the Year in the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Washington Post, People Magazine and Oprah DailyA taut, groundbreaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writingTen months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Boo ...Show more
Eat Your Mind - The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker by Jason McBride
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"It's shocking to learn that this is McBride's first book...Eat Your Mind does everything a good biography should and more" --Los Angeles Times. The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-cent ...Show more