Unsung: A Compendium of Creativity by Kate Ceberano
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A beautiful illustrated memoir from beloved Australian musician Kate Ceberano, featuring her inspirational song lyrics, stories, paintings and embroidery, and celebrating four decades of songwriting and recording on the release of her 30th album. Kate Ceberano is used to a hush descending as she draws ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
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
Home to Biloela: The Story of the Tamil Family that Captured Our Hearts by Priya Nadesalingam, Rebekah Holt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The dramatic inside story of the Tamil refugee family which became a cause clbre all around Australia, and the epic fight by a small rural community to set them free. It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumping on the front door signalled the start of a four-year odyssey that would ca ...Show more
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundsta ...Show more
Rambling Man - My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Father Anselm Novels Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
In my fantasy of the Rambling Man who is something of a hobo, walking - or maybe jumping into the car of a moving train - is what he does. He slings his guitar or banjo over his shoulder and strides out along the road to the next town. There he plays a few songs at a local gig and meets a beautiful woma ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty by Sarah Firth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A delicious mix of daily life, science, philosophy, pop culture, daydreams and irreverent humour, Eventually Everything Connects is a work of graphic non-fiction that is comforting, confronting and mind-expanding in equal measure. WTF is going on? How can I find joy in these precarious times? Is my s ...Show more
The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir by Jami Nakamura Lin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo - the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons - to shift the cultural narrative around mental illness, grief, and remembrance. ...Show more
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable by Nedd Brockmann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10 times' to prove that anything is possible when you break past your own barriers. When Nedd Brockmann set out to run the 3,953 kilometres from Cottesloe to Bondi Beach in the fastest k ...Show more
The Family Law: New Edition by Benjamin Law
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more