Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir by Alan Cumming
21.99 AUD
Category: Biography
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.A beloved star of stage, television, and film--"one of the mo ...Show more
My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies from shame from a key intersectional feminist thinker of a new generation It occurred to me then that the thing that made me the sickest, the thing that made me suffer most, was the fact that I felt so compelled to hide what had bee ...Show more
The Space Between the Stars: On Love, Loss and the Magical Power of Nature To Heal by Indira Naidoo
32.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development
A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts. 'Life-changing' Kate Ceberano'Powerfully moving and insightful' David George Haskell For as long as I can remember, there has always been just the three of us. Three sisters. Only a year bet ...Show more
Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied. Berserkers: an elite Norse fighting corp who, apparently off their tits on hallucinogenic drugs, fought with a particular fury and senseless abandon still present in many Scandinavian heavy metal groups. Ade Edmondson smashed onto the ...Show more
Teacher: One woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching by Gabbie Stroud
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair. Getting Lost is the diary kept by ...Show more
Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire by Walter Marsh
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start? In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputati ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review.In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council wo ...Show more
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A memoir HB by Grace Tame
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertainty - by trauma and strength, sadness and hope, terrible lows and wondrous highs. As a teenager she found the courage to speak up after experiencing awful and ongoing child sexual abuse. This fight to find he ...Show more
The Last Daughter by Brenda Matthews
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An unmissable First Nations memoir that tells of the shattering experience of being stolen, The Last Daughter is a story of heartbreak and healing that offers a path forward for all AustraliansWhen Brenda Matthews was two years old, she and her siblings were taken from their parents. For the next five y ...Show more
Chasing Asylum by Eva Orner
14.99 AUD
29.99 (50% off)
Category: Biography
Filmmaker Eva Orner takes us on a personal, gripping and compelling journey to show us how she came to make her documentary about Australia's asylum seeker policies. 'My work as a filmmaker has taken me to some wild, dangerous places ...It's been a crazy, nomadic kind of life, taking me to conflict zone ...Show more
How We Love: Notes on a life by Clementine Ford
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mothe ...Show more