New Biographies & Memoirs
Life in Ten Houses: A Memoir
$9.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
The internationally celebrated writer Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the 'Last House' - that special corner of the world in which to settle and find... Buy or find out more→
Sane New World: Taming the Mind
$29.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Comedian, writer and mental health campaigner shows us why and how our minds can send us mad and how we can rewire our thinking, especially through mindfulness, to calm ourselves in a frenetic world. Buy or find out more→
Father Bob: The Larrikin Priest
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Father Bob Maguire is a man of passion, creativity and humour; he is part Billy Connolly, part angry Old Testament prophet and part compassionate Mother Theresa (he would hate this categorisation).But he has a unique combination... Buy or find out more→
Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
$29.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
A powerful family memoir from the award-winning author of The China Garden Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms as she boarded a train in the hot summer of 1950. Buy or find out more→
Boomer and Me: A Memoir of Motherhood, and Asperger's
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
‘Are you going to be a good boy this year?’ ‘Uh huh. I have no interest in toilet humour.’ ‘You don‘t?’ ‘No. No interest at all. I mean, I think it's funny when, in The Bad... Buy or find out more→
Welcome to Your New Life
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
When Anna Goldsworthy, pianist and perfectionist, falls pregnant with her first child, her excitement is tempered by the daunting journey ahead. In Welcome to Your New Life, she shares the dizzying wonder and crippling... Buy or find out more→
A Flower Between the Cracks: A Memoir of Love, Hope and Disability
$29.95 – Hardback / Affirm Press
One ordinary evening, Helen's 22-year-old daughter Jayne is involved in a catastrophic car accident. Lying in a coma, her young life in the balance, Helen composes tender letters to Jayne, trying to make sense of the... Buy or find out more→
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John
$32.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The compelling story of one of Australia's finest female novelists, Helen Trinca has captured the troubled life of Madeleine St John in this moving account of a remarkable writer. Buy or find out more→
Here and Now
$27.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
Offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other's friendship is apparent on every page. Buy or find out more→
The Book of My Lives
$32.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
This is the first nonfiction book - searing, revealing, unforgettable - from one of our most acclaimed writers. Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed by... Buy or find out more→
The Still Point of the Turning World: A Mother's Story
$27.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
A mother's experience raising a terminally ill child, and what it teachers her about family, grief and parenting. Buy or find out more→
Love with a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Love can make a person do crazy things... A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find adrift in the middle of the stormy Pacific aboard a leaky sailboat - total crew of two... Buy or find out more→
Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing
$29.95 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
The story of celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her beautiful and unconventional sisters writer Angela and artist Jeanne, now revealed in this riveting biography. Buy or find out more→
The Vogue Factor
$29.95 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Many girls dream of being editor of Vogue. Here, Kirstie Clements, a girl from the wrong side of Sydney tells of her audacious beginnings on the reception desk at the grand magazine and her rise to reigning editor for a decade. Buy or find out more→
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century
$45.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Benjamin Britten was Britain's greatest twentieth-century composer - and in the eyes of many, the greatest since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier. Britten broke decisively with the romantic,... Buy or find out more→
The Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami
$24.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief--that begins in Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously... Buy or find out more→
Cayley and Son: The Life and Art of Neville Henry Cayley and Neville William Cayley
$49.99 – Hardback / National Library of Australia
The classic field guide What Bird Is That? has been known to bird enthusiasts throughout Australia for decades, ever since it was first published in 1931. It was written and illustrated by Neville William Cayley (1886–1950),... Buy or find out more→
A Bite of the Big Apple: My Food Adventure in New York
$39.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
New York, New York. It's Ella and Louis. It's Seinfeld and Woody Allen. It's the bright lights of Broadway, it's hot dogs at 2 a.m., it's bagels and doughnuts and pastrami on rye. It's also Mexican, Jamaican, Filipino,... Buy or find out more→
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination
$35.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Explores the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust and a childhood spent in Auschwitz. Buy or find out more→
The Exotic Booze Club: True Adventures of Volcanoes, Cobras, and a...Beer Elephant
$27.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
It was a club created in flagrant violation of his employer's rules. A club for intrepid film-makers to share their hair-raising stories - of deadly snakes, acid lakes, enormous crocodiles and other examples of nature at its... Buy or find out more→
Waging Peace
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
In her lifetime Anne Deveson has seen massive resources deployed in waging war. Funds, strategies, materials and lives with reverberating effects not only on nations and peoples but on families and successive generations of them. Buy or find out more→
Open Mike: Conversations with Greats of the AFL Game
$34.95 – Paperback / The Slattery Media Group (AFL Publishing)
Since 2009 leading AFL journalist Mike Sheahan has interviewed some of Australian football's biggest names on his Fox Sports program Open Mike. With his compassionate interview style, Sheahan manages to open up even the most... Buy or find out more→
Madness: A Memoir
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Madness is a real world for the many thousands of people who are right now living within it. It never apologises. Sometimes it is a shadow, ever present, without regard for the sun. Sometimes it is a well of dark water with no... Buy or find out more→
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star
$35.00 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group
A frank and funny pop culture memoir in the vein of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman, this is "how to be a woman artist" This is the story of Tracey Thorn, one half of the internationally successful group... Buy or find out more→
How Literature Saved My Life
$35.95 – Hardback / Random House USA Inc
In his most wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, and painfully funny book, acclaimed writer Shields uses himself as a representative for all readers and writers who seek to find salvation in literature and blends... Buy or find out more→
A Lasting Record
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
A Lasting Record tells the unique true story of two separate but interconnected lives: New Yorker William Kapell, America′s greatest home-grown concert pianist, and Roy Preston, Melbourne-based Myer cosmetics salesman and... Buy or find out more→
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
$29.99 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
An intimate portrait of the brilliant and tragic literary enigma before her marriage to Ted Hughes, based on her early poems, letters and diaries Buy or find out more→
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
$45.00 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist. Buy or find out more→
Sinning Across Spain: A Walker's Journey from Granada to Galicia
$29.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
I WILL WALK OFF YOUR SINS. Pilgrim seeks sinners for mutually beneficial arrangement. Seven Deadlies a specialty. With these words Ailsa Piper’s journey begins. Less than a month later she finds herself hiking... Buy or find out more→
High Sobriety: My Year without Booze
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
In re-examining her habits, Jill also explores Australia's love affair with alcohol, meeting alcopop-swigging teens who drink to fit in, beer-swilling blokes in a sporting culture backed by booze, and marketing bigwigs blamed for... Buy or find out more→
Twists and Turns
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
People kept remarking on how they were surprised that a gold medal and fame hadn't changed me. I always responded, Why would I change? Being me is the easiest person to be. I was lying. It wasn't.' At the Beijing Olympic Games,... Buy or find out more→
The Heavy: A Mother's Battle Against Her Seven-year-old Daughter's Obesity
$29.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss's daughter, Bea, obese at the age of seven, the mother of two knew she had to take action. But how can a woman with her own food and body issues, not to mention poor eating habits,... Buy or find out more→
Honestly: Notes on Life
$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
′Gemmell certainly knows how to be controversial′ - DAILY TELEGRAPH Celebrating a year of thought-provoking and fascinating columns in THE AUSTRALIAN WEEKEND MAGAZINE, HONESTLY is a collection of writing on a diverse... Buy or find out more→
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
A story of how a sudden and mysterious illness put her on descent into a madness for which there seemed to be no cure. It is also the story of how one brilliant man, Syria-born Dr Najar, finally proved - using a simple pen and... Buy or find out more→
Drink, Smoke, Pass Out: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey takes us on Judith's path from being a child so Catholic that she wanted to be a nun, to a genuinely curious adult looking for meaning - via atheism, advanced yoga, astral travel and a whole lot... Buy or find out more→
This is Me: The Autobiography
$45.00 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
The complete autobiography of a swimming prodigy and Olympic champion who has become a sporting icon Buy or find out more→
The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster
$24.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
There are many awe-inspiring true stories of sport rescuing young people from desperate poverty -- this one has a surprising twist. Phiona Mutesi, who grew up in the Ugandan slum of Katwe, has a talent, perhaps even a genius for... Buy or find out more→
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
$35.00 – Paperback / Vintage
Leonard Cohen is the genius behind such songs as Suzanne , Bird on a Wire and Hallelujah . He is one of the important songwriters of our time, a man of spirituality, emotion, and intelligence whose work has explored the... Buy or find out more→
Joseph Anton
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, the author was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? This title tells... Buy or find out more→
Montebello
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Montebello continues where Robert Drewe's much-loved memoir The Shark Net left off, taking us into his mature years. Buy or find out more→
After Words: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
$35.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
A unique volume of speeches and occasional pieces written entirely by former Prime Minister Paul Keating. Buy or find out more→
John Keats: A New Life
$39.95 – Hardback / Yale University Press
This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man... Buy or find out more→
The Tour
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
'I'd always thought spiritual enlightenment would involve candles, meditative music and maybe even a happy faced person wearing an orange robe banging a gong occasionally. Never in my wildest imaginings did I expect it would... Buy or find out more→
Elyne Mitchell: A Daughter Remembers
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
In 1958, Elyne Mitchell's The Silver Brumby was published to acclaim and quickly became a much - loved classic of Australian children's literature. Now, for the centenary of Elyne's birth, her daughter Honor Auchinleck tells the... Buy or find out more→
Crimwife: An Insider's Account of Love Behind Bars
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
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Hope Street, Jerusalem: A Memoir
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
I had no idea how demanding this consuming, cruel, dangerous and fascinating place would be. I would fall in love here, I would do some of my best reporting, I would be injured, ending my run of good luck - my life would... Buy or find out more→
Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
$39.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Neil Young is an iconic figure in the history of rock and pop culture (inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). This title offers an overview of his personal life and musical career, spanning his time in... Buy or find out more→
Toyo: A Memoir
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Toyo learned to ask nothing, to wait and count the days. But they passed and passed and still the doorway remained empty of his deep voice, calling out her name. Toyo is the story of a remarkable woman, a vivid picture of Japan... Buy or find out more→
Get Well Soon!: My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse
$24.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
My quest for a career started early, when I was four years old and gave myself a haircut to see if I liked that sort of thing. I liked it plenty, but my mother did not. Buy or find out more→
Thoughts on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
$29.99 – Paperback / John Murray General Publishing Division
Award-winning writer and doctor Uzo Iweala travels a continent getting to know the people whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDs Buy or find out more→
The Two Frank Thrings
$49.95 – Hardback / Monash University Publishing
It's a kind of detective story, following the tracks of two men who did all they could to cover their tracks, and to conceal the self': Frank the father used secrecy and sleight-of-hand as strategies for self-protection; Frank... Buy or find out more→
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
$22.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Tomalin intimately explores the life of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), renowned in his lifetime as a bureaucrat, a key figure in the British navy, and friend and colleague of the powerful. Buy or find out more→
Gough Whitlam: His Time
$39.95 – Hardback / Melbourne University Press
Recreates the excitement of Whitlam's historic win in 1972, forces that never accepted his ascendency &the tragedy that followed. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, interviews with family, colleague sand with the man... Buy or find out more→
Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognise same-sex marriage. But as the child of migrants, he's also curious about how... Buy or find out more→
Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz
$32.95 – Paperback / Transit Lounge Publishing
Like the best true life adventures, the story of Werner Pelz is stranger than fiction. Forced to flee Nazi Germany for being Jewish, he was then interned in England for being German. Shipped to Australia on the notorious HMT... Buy or find out more→
Staunch: Ward of the State
$24.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press
During the 20th century, over 500,000 Australian children were raised in institutional or out-of-home care. Tragically, many were abused – physically, emotionally and sexually. Staunch is the story of one boy’s life as a... Buy or find out more→
Michael Kirby: Law, Love and Life
$45.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Drawing on interviews with Kirby, his family, friends, and Johan van Vloten, his partner of more than forty years, this intimate biography takes us behind the bench to explore the personal, moral and spiritual convictions of one... Buy or find out more→
Octopus Sam Israel The Secret Market And Wall Streets Wildest Con
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colourful cast of rogues and schemers, for a 'secret market' beneath the financial market we all know. Buy or find out more→
Winter Journal
$29.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
Presents the abandonment of the family by the author's father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived; her troubled later years and, finally, her... Buy or find out more→
Ox Is Slow But The Earth Is Patient
$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
At the end of 2000, David Buttifant joined Coach Mick Malthouse as Head of Conditioning at the Collingwood Football Club. A decade later the pair have shared many events together, some of which have been life-changing. Here this... Buy or find out more→
James Halliday: A Life in Wine
$45.00 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
A delightful collection of James Halliday's reminiscences of his remarkable wine career, from the master himself. Buy or find out more→
The Search for Anne Perry
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the film Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. This film launched Jackson's... Buy or find out more→
A Passionate Life
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Known and loved by Australians as the editor of The Australian Women's Weekly throughout the second half of the seventies, Ita Buttrose has also made lasting contributions to many other aspects of our lives and culture. In A... Buy or find out more→
The Boy Who Wouldn't Die
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged i country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village and his childhood. He would never return. For months David and... Buy or find out more→
The Wolf and the Watchman: A CIA Childhood
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
To be advised Buy or find out more→
Bert Hinkler The Most Daring Man In The World
$32.99 – Paperback / ABC Books
Grantlee Kieza tells the thrilling story of Bert′s life and with it the bigger story of how the world was changed forever by men like Hinkler. Fast paced and revealing, this is an overdue, full blooded biography about one of... Buy or find out more→
Charles Dickens: A Life
$22.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
The tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by an unparalleled literary biographer. Charles Dickens: A Life gives full measure to Dickens' heroic stature--his huge virtues both as a writer and as a... Buy or find out more→
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
$29.99 – Paperback / Atlantic Books
Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby Buy or find out more→
Amy, My Daughter
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
In this intimate account of Amy Winehouse's life, music, and untimely death, her father Mitch Winehouse gives readers full access to his daughter's private life in the midst of her immensely public triumphs and tragedies. Buy or find out more→
Barack Obama: The Making of a Man
$32.95 – Paperback / Atlantic Books
Tells the story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Texas. The author charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites in every way, which produced these two... Buy or find out more→
Facing The Torturer
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
In 1971, 30-year-old ethnographer François Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge and kept prisoner for three months in the Cambodian jungle, accused of being a CIA spy. His captor, Comrade Duch, eventually had him freed. It... Buy or find out more→
And Then Life Happens
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of the siblings' shared father. Buy or find out more→
All of it: A Memoir of Love, Fear and Art
$29.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Bestselling author Bev Aisbett′s no-nonsense text, combined with her insightful cartoon images, have reassured countless people seeking help for anxiety. Now, she reveals the deep spirit that lies behind these deceptively... Buy or find out more→
The Lost Woman
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
When Sydney Smith was nine, she thought about killing herself because of her mother's cruelty. When she reached puberty, her mother sexually assaulted her - a pattern repeated over the years. Buy or find out more→
The Grand Tour: Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922
$39.99 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie,s extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission... Buy or find out more→
More Lives Than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
'A major contribution to our understanding of literature and politics in the tumult of interwar Germany' Harold James Hans Fallada was a drug addict, womanizer, alcoholic, jailbird and thief. Yet he was also one of the... Buy or find out more→
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schindler of Asia'
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schlindler of Asia. At once a non-fiction thriller and a moral maze, this is one man's epic story of trying to find a safe place in the world. When Ali Al Jenabi flees Saddam... Buy or find out more→
A Cook's Life
$39.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
With her Cook's Companion front and centre in half a million kitchens, Stephanie Alexander is the very definition of a household name. Each day thousands turn to this 'food Bible' for definitive recipes, encouragement and... Buy or find out more→
The Doors
$32.99 – Hardback / Faber and Faber
The author saw the Doors band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. This title tells the story of the band. Buy or find out more→
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
'A stunning achievement — a monumental work of humane and painstaking observation.' Anna Funder, author of ALL THAT I AM 'Without question the best book yet written on contemporary India. Also, the best work of narrative... Buy or find out more→
Fishing the River of Time
$29.95 – Hardback / Text Publishing Co
Fishing the River of Time is an elegant meditation on nature, life and family, written with warmth and wisdom. At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old... Buy or find out more→
A Life with Books
$4.95 – Paperback / Vintage
In the essay, Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand bookshops around the country. He ends by praising the physical book and expressing the... Buy or find out more→
Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life
$49.95 – Hardback / Yale University Press
An intimate new portrait of one of history's most controversial figures: heroic revolutionary or the first terrorist? Buy or find out more→
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations... Buy or find out more→
Cairo: My City, Our Revolution
$27.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The story of the revolution and a personal journey into the city of Ahdaf Soueif's childhood Buy or find out more→
Am I Black Enough for You?
$34.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Anita Heiss, successful author... Buy or find out more→
Reaching One Thousand: A Story of Love, Motherhood and Autism
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
“This is the best kind of memoir – there is a beautiful calm clarity that drew me in, and held me until the end.” – Georgia Blain When Ben is a baby, Rachel puts his behavioural quirks down to eccentricity. He likes to... Buy or find out more→
When Gods Collide: An Unbeliever's Pilgrimage Along India's Coromandel Coast
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
‘For ten years I’d been picturing the mob marching across the field to Manoharpur with flaming torches, then standing, shouting, around the jeep, rocking it, and then as I focused on the back window and saw three indistinct... Buy or find out more→
Partners and Crime: The True Stories of Eight Women and Their Lives with Notorious Men
$30.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Why do women love 'bad boys'? For some it is true love. For others it's the excitement, wealth, glamour and moving with a fast crowd. Some become partners in crimes, hiding guns and cash and providing alibis. Others maintain the... Buy or find out more→
Worth Fighting For
$29.99 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
From the widow of Patrick Swayze, a remarkably moving account of grief and moving on, with never-before-revealed stories from Patrick's final months Buy or find out more→
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen - year - old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley,... Buy or find out more→
Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad and Life Was a Catch-22
$24.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A memoir of the author, from her colourful family members and her parents' passionate and tumultuous marriage, to her father's celebrity friends and the family's eccentric neighbours (Mel Brooks was a close confidante, Sidney... Buy or find out more→
Blue Nights
$27.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
From one of America's greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Buy or find out more→
Playground Duty
$34.99 – Paperback / NewSouth Publishing
In the baking heat of February 1973, wearing a purple nylon bodyshirt and an expression of confidence that belied his nerves, Ned Manning faced down a classroom full of kids in Tenterfield in remote NSW. It was the start of... Buy or find out more→
There Stands My House
$24.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
The first English-language translation of the memoirs of Hans Keilson, one of Europe’s most masterful and remarkable writers In this unique work, which was composed in the 1990s and only recently rediscovered, Keilson... Buy or find out more→
The Double Life of Herman Rockefeller
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
In January 2010 a law-abiding, church-going father of two from Melbourne's leafy eastern suburbs didn't come home after a business trip and his burnt remains were found in a northern suburb – the wrong side of town – a week... Buy or find out more→
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London
$40.00 – Hardback / Orion Publishing Co
A double biographical study of Nancy Mitford and her affair with Free French commander Gaston Palewski Buy or find out more→
Fierce Focus: Greg Chappell
$45.00 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
Greg Chappell was the outstanding Australian batsman of his generation. Though he had an appetite for big scores, it was his calm brow and courtly manner that bowlers found just as disheartening. When he followed his brother... Buy or find out more→
Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?
$29.95 – Hardback / Vintage
Includes stories about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a tyrant in place of a mother, who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the duster drawer, waiting for Armageddon; and, about... Buy or find out more→
A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends
$35.00 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
Michael Kirby is Australia's most admired judicial figure. He has written and lectured extensively about the law, but has rarely revealed the private man. In this series of recollections we learn about the real Michael Kirby. Buy or find out more→
Martin Amis: The Biography
$35.00 – Hardback / Constable and Robinson
A biography of Martin Amis, one of the most famous and controversial authors. Featuring many interviews with Amis, it gives a of this towering literary persona. Buy or find out more→
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess De Janze
$23.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
A beautifully written biography of Alice, Countess de Janze, the beguiling and volatile temptress of Kenya's 'White Mischief' set of the 1940s. Buy or find out more→
Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
'I'm so damn average that what I write resonates with people', Joe Bageant said in explaining how he gained a global following for his web-published essays. In 2004 at the age of 57, Joe sensed that the internet could give him... Buy or find out more→
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
$45.00 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group
* An extraordinary book which gives us a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed the world Buy or find out more→