Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia's first MasterChef by Julie Goodwin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary life story of Australia's beloved Julie Goodwin, first winner of MasterChef and bestselling cookbook author Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In many ways her win was unlikely. As a child Julie adored music and art, but her ...Show more
Love, Death & Other Scenes by Nova Weetman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How do we become more after losing? Beloved Australian author Nova Weetman shares her heartfelt experiences with grief and loss while also celebrating the profound beauty of love and life. Nova Weetman's unforgettable memoir reflects on experiences of love and loss from throughout her life, including- ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir by Sam Neill
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
The Forbidden Daughter by Zipora Klein Jakob
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging. Elida Friedman was never supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite th ...Show more
Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change by Helen Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo, a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped guide the way. It was 1966 and the times they were a-changing, even in the provincial New Zealand coastal town of New Plymo ...Show more
Not Without You: Some People are Just Destined to be Together by Alan Brogan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'That night I lay in my new bed and the pain came. I thought about Irene. I would find her again. I had to.' Alan and Irene first met in a cold, regimented children's home when he was seven and she was nine. Both had lost their mothers when they were very young. When a car drew up outside the Home, Alan ...Show more
Datsun Angel: A true-story adventure inside the savage heart of 1980s Australia by Anna Broinowski
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Datson Angel is a turbo-charged adventure into the dark heart of 1980s Australia: a place completely alien, yet frighteningly similar, to today. EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK HAPPENED . . . At seventeen, aching to begin her adult life, Anna Broinowski is precocious, naïve and in her first year of Arts/Law at ...Show more
Model Minority Gone Rogue: How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script by Qin Qin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Lisa Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don't rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority. But doing everything right? It made her lost and miserable. So she decided to take a spectacular ri ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A triumphant story of hope and survival. I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and fac ...Show more