Readings Recommends: Biographies & Memoirs
Teach Us To Sit Still
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
‘Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out: sit still, they said, and breathe...’TEACH US T... Buy or find out more →
Blue Nights
$27.99 – Trade paperback /
Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. BLUE NIGHTS is a shatteringly honest examination of Joa... Buy or find out more →
The Horror Of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski
$39.99 – Hard back / Orion
The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary times.
THE HORROR OF LOVE is a story about two people - Nancy Mitford and the... Buy or find out more →
Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad And Life Was A Catch 22
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A fascinating, moving and witty memoir by Joseph Heller's daughter, about life with her famous father
‘You’re Joseph Heller’s daughter? How terrific!’
But was there a catch?
Like his most famous work, Joseph Hell... Buy or find out more →
Tim Burton
$49.95 – Hardcover book /
Tim Burton is one of the most popular and innovative creative forces working in Hollywood today. From his first films as a cinema obsessed adolescent to his most recent Hollywood blockbusters like Sweeney Todd and Alice ... Buy or find out more →
A Private Life
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A collection of reminiscences that reaveal the private Michael Kirby. Speaking in his own voice, he opens up as never before in a beautifully written, reflective and generous memoir - one that Michael Kirby's many admire... Buy or find out more →
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life Of Alice Countess De Janze
$22.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was s... Buy or find out more →
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
$21.95 – Paperback book / Random House
More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling, a... Buy or find out more →
Old Timers: Magnificient Stories From Mighty Australians
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Meet Ron Canlin, who one day began sculpting the sandstone walls of his opal mine. Ten years later, every drive and tunnel in Ron's claim is full of wonderful sculptures - the eighth wonder of the world. Or Peter Venable... Buy or find out more →
Hockney: The Authorised Biography
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Century
In this astounding authorised biography Christopher Sykes explores the fascinating world of the most popular living artist in the world today.
David Hockney’s career has spanned and epitomised the art movements of the la... Buy or find out more →
Horses Never Lie About Love
$24.95 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
The heartwarming story of a remarkable horse who changed the world around her
When Jana Harris first laid eyes on a beautiful mare named True Colors, something about her and the way she guarded her foal spoke to Harris. Buy or find out more →
I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words
$17.95 – Paperback book /
Fortune magazine proclaimed Jobs 'the CEO of the decade'. Harvard Business Review called him 'the world's best-performing CEO'. And the Wall Street Journal praised him as a 'Person of the Decade'. The longtime CEO of App... Buy or find out more →
Then Again
$29.99 – Paperback book /
Autobiography of the world-famous, and much-loved, actress. Best known for her role as Annie Hall in Woody Allen's film of the same name, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, Keaton has had a fascinating ... Buy or find out more →
Waltzing At The Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
'Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a very large portion of Americans are crazier than shithouse rats and are being led by a gang of pathological misfits, most of whom are preachers and politicians.'
In 2004, at... Buy or find out more →
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Hachette
An extraordinary book which gives a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed the world.
Written from hours of interviews with Steve Jobs himself, family, friends, colleague... Buy or find out more →
Letters Of Samuel Beckett: Vol 2
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres
This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the war years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the out... Buy or find out more →
Lady Gaga x Terry Richardson
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Hodder Headline
The first official book by international superstar Lady Gaga.
In this book of original, behind-the-scenes photographs, acclaimed photographer Terry Richardson follows superstar Lady Gaga during one year of her life, from... Buy or find out more →
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she... Buy or find out more →
100 Things
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Ebury Press
At the ripe-old age of 26, Sebastian realised that like most people, he has not achieved anything on his long-forgotten list. The death of a close friend combined with a naturally abstract view on life sparks a moment of... Buy or find out more →
The Man In The Gray Flannel Skirt: A Memoir Of Androgyny
$34.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
If you have ever felt like a misfit in school or been paralyzed by your family's imposing expectations, if you have ever obsessed about your appearance or panicked about choosing a career path, if you have ever wondered ... Buy or find out more →
Shockaholic
$26.99 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty, and uproarious wisdom that placed Wishful Drinking on the New York Times bestseller list for months, Untitled is the juicy account of Carrie Fisher's life, focusing most... Buy or find out more →
Instead Of A Book: Letters to a Friend
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Granta
Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the... Buy or find out more →
Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Heinemann
Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's bestselling authors. Despite her enormous popularity she never gave an interview or appe... Buy or find out more →
Black Ties, Red Carpets And Green Rooms
$32.95 – Hardcover book / New Holland Pub
As the Nine Network's Entertainment Editor and more than 17 years on the Today show, Richard Wilkins has interviewed the cream of the international entertainment industry - from Madonna to the Rolling Stones, and from An... Buy or find out more →
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut A Life
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company
The first authoritative and authorized biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature
In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his endors... Buy or find out more →
Gabby: A Story Of Courage And Hope
$29.99 – Paperback book /
From one of the most admired and beloved couples in recent American history, an extraordinarily moving story of public service, risk-taking, romance--and the journey toward recovery. This book delivers hope and redemptio... Buy or find out more →
Back To Work
$29.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Hutchinson
President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving t... Buy or find out more →
Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel Nazi Agent
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Chatto & Windus
Coco Chanel, high priestess of couture, created the look of the chic modern woman: her simple and elegant designs freed women from their corsets and inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s, Chanel employed more th... Buy or find out more →
The Happiest Refugee (Gift Edition)
$32.99 – Hard back / Allen & Unwin
The bestselling, laugh-out-loud, reach for your hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians - now in hard cover gift edition.
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing t... Buy or find out more →
Love And Capital: Karl Marx And Jenny Marx And The Birth Of A Revolution
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Hachette
Gabriel (Notorious Victoria) offers a magisterial account of the lives of Karl Marx and his wife, Jenny von Westphalen, remarkable for the ease with which it moves between the domestic and the political spheres, offering... Buy or find out more →
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish - now known simply as 'the Gaza doctor' captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: on January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, kill... Buy or find out more →
Charles Dickens: A Life
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Uk
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon. Perhaps the greatest novelist in the English language, the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination, Sam Weller, Mr Pickwick, the Artful Dodger, David Copperf... Buy or find out more →
Rivered Earth
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
The Rivered Earth contains four effervescent libretti written by Vikram Seth - the international bestselling author of A Suitable Boy - to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pain... Buy or find out more →
After Romulus
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
‘People have often asked me how I survived my childhood reasonably sane. They think it was because my father and Hora loved me deeply and that I never doubted it. But as much as, perhaps more than that, it was the fact t... Buy or find out more →
The Hare With Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition)
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
This is the definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller with gorgeous new photography of the celebrated netsuke collection, and sumptuous full-colour images hand-picked by Edmund de Waal from his famil... Buy or find out more →
Cleopatra: A Life
$15.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.
Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in p... Buy or find out more →
The Promise Of Iceland
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
In 1990, at the age of seventeen, Kári Gíslason travelled to Iceland, the land of his birth, and arranged to meet his father. What he found was not what he expected.
Born from a secret liaison between a British mother ... Buy or find out more →
Good Living Street: The Fortunes Of My Viennese Family
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
From high society in Vienna to a small flat in Sydney; from patrons of the arts to refugees from the Holocaust; this is the enthralling story of three generations of women spanning a century of upheaval.
In 1900 Vienna w... Buy or find out more →
This Is A Call: The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl
$35.00 – Trade paperback /
From a bandmate′s suicide to drug abuse, from Washington DC to California, Paul Brannigan gives an unparalleled, intimate and extraordinary account of the life and times of Dave Grohl.
In 1990, little-known punk-metal ... Buy or find out more →
The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Random House
No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie. Through his multi-faceted and inventive work, he encapsulated many of the social, political and cultural th... Buy or find out more →
The Flower Hunter: The Remarkable Life Of Ellis Rowan
$34.95$16.95 – Paperback book / National Lib Of Aust
Ellis Rowan was one of Australias most accomplished artists and an incredibleif somewhat unexpectedadventurer. During World War I Ellis ventured alone into the tropical jungles of New Guinea in search of all 72 known spe... Buy or find out more →
Her Father's Daughter
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Read our Q&A with Alice Pung about Her Father's Daughter.
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Unpolished Gem.
At twenty-something, Alice is hungry for the milestones of young womanhood: leaving home, choosi... Buy or find out more →
Insatiable: My Life In The Kitchen
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
‘Tony Bilson’s memoir is a looking-glass into a time of unparalleled development in food in Australia and his part in it.’ - Neil Perry
‘Perfection is an intimidating and inspiring experience … A craft doesn’t prog... Buy or find out more →
And What Do You Do, Mr Gable?
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The collected short pieces of nonfiction from one of Australia’s pre-eminent novelists.
'And what do you do, Mr Faulkner?' asked Clark Gable after being introduced to William Faulkner at a party.
'I write,' replied Fau... Buy or find out more →
Last Pre Raphaelite
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Faber & Faber
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Life Without The Boring Bits
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
World-famous writer and national treasure Colleen McCullough has always resisted the idea of writing an autobiography - books on the subject of the self tend to be "stuffed to pussy′s bow with boring bits". But her mind ... Buy or find out more →
Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up In The Mad House
$32.95 – Paperback book / Mainstream
Martha is now in her thirties. She has long shaken off the shackles of Jackser and her mother. Following a shotgun wedding at 18, she was separated and a single mother by 22. Now her daughter has left home to continue he... Buy or find out more →
Footprints
$45.00 – Paperback book / Headline
The inside story of Australia's best loved band! For the first time, Bernard, Darren, Ian, John and Jonathan look back and tell their whole story from childhood to their final farewell.
Few could debate Powderfinger's pl... Buy or find out more →
George Harrison: Living In The Material World
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams
Introduction by Paul Theroux, Foreword by Martin Scorsese
Drawing on George Harrison’s personal archive of photographs, letters, diaries, and memorabilia, Olivia Harrison reveals the arc of his life, from his guitar-obse... Buy or find out more →
Cadel Evans: The Long Road to Paris
$39.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
My mind took control of my body. I had nothing left in the legs but as a cyclist, you just keep going until the finish. I kept reminding myself that I had to get to the finish...
Filled with sensational photographs and r... Buy or find out more →
Absolutely
$45.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Hachette
The absolutely fabulous Joanna Lumley opens her private albums for this illustrated memoir.
Joanna Lumley is one of Britain's undisputed national treasures, an English actress, voiceover artist and author, best known for... Buy or find out more →
The Hall Of Uselessness: Collected Essays
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Black Inc
An essential collection of essays from an eminent critic.
Simon Leys’ cultural and political commentary has spanned four decades, with no corner of the arts escaping his sharp eye and acerbic wit. The Hall of Uselessness... Buy or find out more →
Sins Of The Father: The Untold Story Behind Schapelle Corby's Ill-Fated Drug Run
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
The story behind Australia's most famous drug case
A reckless father, his dark past, an Adelaide drug trafficker and the Gold Coast beauty school dropout who kept her mouth shut. This is the explosive untold story of Sch... Buy or find out more →
Housewife Superstar: The Very Best Of Marjorie Bligh
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Housewife Superstar is the life story of eccentric Tasmanian domestic goddess, Marjorie Bligh. Now 94 years old, Marjorie is the author of a library of advice books covering topics including food, household management, h... Buy or find out more →
Mawson
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Random Century
The story of Australia’s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration: Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton.
Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's gr... Buy or find out more →
Ray Martin's Favourites: The Stories Behind The Legends
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Ray Martin’s Favourites brings together the most remarkable of these interviews, offering insight into some extraordinary people. About this Title
Award-winning journalist Ray Martin is one Australia’s most loved perso... Buy or find out more →
Shatner Rules
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
A look at the man, the myth, and the magic that is William Shatner. William Shatner has had a million lives, it seems, since he played James Tiberius Kirk on Star Trek. In fact, he's become an icon adored as much for bei... Buy or find out more →
Jack Of All Trades: Mistress Of One
$32.95 – Trade paperback / New South Books
Things were never quite the same once Aunty Jack roared onto our television screens in the 1970s, threatening to rip our bloody arms off. In this funny and moving memoir, Grahame Bond celebrates — and at times curses — h... Buy or find out more →
May Gibbs More Than A Fairy Tale: An Artistic Life
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
May Gibbs became one of Australia's most well-known and loved illustrators. Her gum-nut babies have been adored by generations of children. For the first time her early life and artistic career are explored in detail. Sh... Buy or find out more →
Hazel: My Mother's Story
$49.99 – Hard back / Pan Macmillan
Hazel Hawke is one of our most loved and respected Australians. As the wife of a prime minister she brought a down-to-earth warmth to Canberra that influenced everyone she came into contact with. Whether it was working t... Buy or find out more →
Not The Last Goodbye
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
#1 Bestseller in France
'A book without pathos. Serene and arresting. Dense and upsetting. Each word rings true, each memory lingers, each detail of his life, now in limbo, brings us closer to the human condition. This b... Buy or find out more →
Our Queen
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hutchinson
Throughout history, there has been no Monarch like her.
She is not merely the oldest Sovereign this country has ever known. She is the most worldly. She has travelled further than all her predecessors put together. She h... Buy or find out more →
The Lady And The Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
$29.95 – Paperback book / Rider
Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe. ... Buy or find out more →
Modigliani: A Life
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Scribe Publications
Amedeo ('Beloved of God') Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In Modigliani's time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cubis... Buy or find out more →
Michael Kirby: Paradoxes, Principles
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Federation Press
Michael Kirby Paradoxes and Principles is the first biography of The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG; written by one of Australia’s leading public law and political science scholars, AJ Brown.
When he retired from the ... Buy or find out more →
Round The Bend
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
What's it like to drive a car that's actively trying to kill you?
This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions of ... Buy or find out more →
Brett Lee: My Life
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Ebury Press
Brett Lee is known throughout the cricketing world as one of the fastest and most exciting pace bowlers to play the game. Intimidating while charming, decent yet ferocious, he is known for his quick-one liners as much as... Buy or find out more →
The Genius In My Basement
$27.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
As Aristotle understood it, ′there is no great genius without a mixture of madness′ and he may well have had a point: Einstein routinely forgot his way home when out walking the streets of Vienna, Nietzsche wound up in a... Buy or find out more →
Guantanamo: My Journey
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Heinemann
Guantanamo: My Journey is the first published account by David Hicks of the years leading up to his incarceration in the infamous US military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, his time as a detainee, and his search for a... Buy or find out more →
Mawson's Forgotten Men
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Tasmanian-born Charles Turnbull Harrisson (1867-1914) was one of the members of Douglas Mawson's legendary Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14. Harrisson joined the expedition as a biologist and artist, a part o... Buy or find out more →
Women Of Letters
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.
In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created th... Buy or find out more →
Sybil Exposed:The Extraordinary Story Behind The Famous Multiple Person Ality Case
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
The compelling true story of the three women — a Manhattan psychiatrist, a glamorous magazine writer, and a troubled young woman — behind the psychology case that shook the world.
In the 1950s, Sybil Dorsett, a woman... Buy or find out more →
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions Of Goggle Employee Number 59
$29.95 – Paperback book / Allen Lane
Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a rocket to a wheelbarrow. No academic analysis or bystander's account can capture it. Now Douglas Edwards, Employee Number 59, takes readers inside the Googlepl... Buy or find out more →
In Other Worlds: Science Fiction And The Human Imagination
$40.00 – Hardcover book / Virago
IN OTHER WORLDS: SF AND THE HUMAN IMAGINATION is Margaret Atwood's account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as 'science fiction'. This relationship has been lifelong, stretching from her da... Buy or find out more →
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
I hope this book will become one of the unifying documents of our generation. In this highly personal work, I explain our global struggle to force a new relationship between the people and their governments. – Julian Ass... Buy or find out more →
Joseph Lyons: The People's Prime Minister
$49.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
This landmark book re-establishes Lyons as one of Australias most capable and popular leaders and reminds us of why he was the first Australian prime minister to win and survive three consecutive elections. A Tasmanian L... Buy or find out more →
The Ox Is Slow But The Earth Is Patient
$29.99 – Hardcover book / 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.
H... Buy or find out more →
Here Comes Trouble
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
This is not a 'memoir' or an 'autobiography'. It does not begin with 'I was born eleven days after Bill Haley and the Comets recorded the first rock-n-roll song, and two hours before Hank Aaron hit his first major league... Buy or find out more →
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred And Profane
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilli... Buy or find out more →
Happy Accidents
$29.99 – Trade paperback /
This is no typical Hollywood memoir of torment, grief, regret and plastic surgery. It′s a simple but candid story of how a girl from Chicago came to Hollywood, overcame her demons, and finally hit the big time. Taking a ... Buy or find out more →
Tony Abbott: A Man's Man
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
'If he's elected as our PM in the future I would be very scared for women everywhere.' — Mia Freedman
When Julia Gillard — who was unmarried and childless, and an atheist — became prime minister in 2010, Tony Abbott wa... Buy or find out more →
Worse Things Happen At Sea
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Hachette
WORSE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA is about families, suburbs and homes, friends, love and day to day life written by bestselling author William McInnes and award winning filmmaker, photographer and animator Sarah Watt.
In Willi... Buy or find out more →
The Lies Of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest For Power
$35.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
This is the first full-scale, in-depth political biography of America’s most polarising figure.
Based on more than two hundred interviews — many of them with Republican colleagues and one-time political allies of Palin... Buy or find out more →
How To Make Gravy (Audio CD)
$59.95 – Compact disc /
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller, and here, using his lyrics as starting points, he reads stories of his life and his songs, including 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talk... Buy or find out more →
How To Make Gravy
$35.00 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bo... Buy or find out more →
That Woman: The Life Of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
$35.00 – Paperback book / Hachette
This will be the first serious yet sympathetic book by a female biographer to explain the story of how an American divorcee became a hate figure for allegedly ensnaring a British King from his throne. It focuses on the c... Buy or find out more →
Seriously ... I'm Kidding
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Oh, hi. I′m so glad you decided to turn the book over. Inside you will find an assortment of wonderful things - words, pictures, advice, tidbits, morsels, shenanigans, and, in some copies, four hundred dollars cash. So y... Buy or find out more →
Einstein On The Road
$38.95 – Hardcover book / Prometheus Books
At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein traveled throughout the world, from Japan to South America and many places in between. During these voyages, between 1922 and 1933, he was in the habit of keeping travel diaries... Buy or find out more →
Tea With Arwa
$29.95 – Paperback book / Hachette
A memoir about finding home ... and yourself
Born of Palestinian migrants, Arwa did not have a country that she could call home. Just before her ninth birthday her parents came to Australia to give their daughters the gr... Buy or find out more →
One Way Road: The Autobiography Of Robbie McEwen
$34.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Robbie McEwen is one of the most successful road cyclists of the last 20 years, having achieved the rare distinction of winning over 100 professional races, including multiple stages in the prestigious Tour de France and... Buy or find out more →
My Life In Shorts
$34.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
H.G. Nelson – Australia's foremost sports commentator, cultural critic, social observer and loud-mouthed heckler–is a legend of the tinny transistor and the small screen. But who exactly is the man behind the mike? Where... Buy or find out more →
Sweet As
$32.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
After 20 years away, Garth Cartwright returns to home and roadtrips from one end of the country to the other to see what's changed - and what hasn't.
'I come from Mt Roskill. Somebody has to.' So says Garth Cartwright of... Buy or find out more →
Men Are Stupid, Women Are Crazy
$29.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Peter Ruehl s humorous columns on life, family and politics have been one of the Australian Financial Review s most beloved and prominent features for more than two decades. His irreverent wit and ability to puncture pre... Buy or find out more →
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred And Profane
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'Action-packed, magisterial . . . Caravaggio's life was every bit as bloody, sexy and attention-grabbing as the paintings themselves and Graham-Dixon is a man who knows the paintings better than almost any. Here is a lif... Buy or find out more →
An Eye For Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark
$54.99 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Manning Clark (1915–1991) was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna’s compelling biography of this giant of Australia’s cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark’s extensive private letters, j... Buy or find out more →
You Are Not Alone: Michael, Through A Brother's Eyes
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
You Are Not Alone is an intimate, loving portrait of Michael Jackson, illuminating the private man like never before. It is an invitation into Michael′s real character, private insights and hidden feelings: the innermost... Buy or find out more →
Black Dog Daze: Public Life, Private Demons
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Andrew Robb lived with an unspoken fear that what he passed off as 'not being good in the mornings' was something darker: a black dog whose daily visit lasted longer as the years passed. Worried about stigmas and letting... Buy or find out more →
Lazarus Rising
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
He has been one of Australia’s most controversial prime ministers, leading the Liberal Party to victory over four elections and becoming the second-longest-serving PM in the nation’s history. John Winston Howard is the f... Buy or find out more →
Adventures In Correspondentland
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
As a foreign correspondent for the BBC, Nick Bryant has reported from the wilds of Afghanistan, Pakistan, London, Washington and, for the past five years, Australia. Adventures in Correspondentland - his account of these... Buy or find out more →
Me Of The Never Never
$29.95 – Paperback book / Orion
Fiona O'Loughlin is certainly the funniest (and possibly one of the busiest) working mothers in Australia today: a stand-up comedian based in Alice Springs and Adelaide, she is on the road for most of the year, doing liv... Buy or find out more →
Hands Across The Water
$34.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
Peter Baines started out as a police officer in the mean streets of Cabramatta in the early nineties. Becoming a specialist in crime scene forensic investigations he was called upon to bring his skills to the Bali bombin... Buy or find out more →
Waiting For A Wide Horse Sky
$29.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
One woman’s unexpected story from South Korea. An exhilarating true tale of friendship, danger, and the possibility of new beginnings.
The plight of migrant factory workers in South Korea leads Katoomba-based author El... Buy or find out more →
You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
From childhood dreams of prostitution to her unabashed passion for heavy drinking, from growing up wide-eyed on the set of Australian soaps to her infatuation with Bob Ellis, these are the outrageously entertaining and d... Buy or find out more →
Singing For All He's Worth
$24.99 – Paperback book / Picador
In the early 1990s, after writing for most of his life in Yiddish, his mother tongue, Jacob Rosenberg decided to switch to English. The period of extraordinary creativity that followed was cut short only by his death in ... Buy or find out more →
The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Alison Thompson, a filmmaker living in New York City, was enjoying Christmas with her boyfriend in 2004 when she saw the news online: a 9.3-magnitude earthquake had struck near Indonesia, triggering a massive tsunami tha... Buy or find out more →
Cleopatra: A Life
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Virgin Publishing
"Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections of history: that of women and power," writes Schiff in this excellent, myth-busting biography. It is that intersection that interests Schiff rather than romance... Buy or find out more →
Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart (10th Anniversary Edition)
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Anniversary edition of Don Watson's brilliant, award-winning and best-selling biography of Paul Keating with new content.
Introduced by Carmen Lawrence, former Premier of WA and senior minister in the Keating government.... Buy or find out more →
Four Seasons With A Grumpy Goat
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A tree change is about finding a simpler life, right? And that's what Carol Altmann and her partner were seeking when they moved to a hobby farm in Tasmania. But things go wrong in a surprising number of ways as they try... Buy or find out more →
Bligh: Master Mariner
$35.00 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
There's a lot more to Captain Bligh than mutiny, rum and convicts ...
The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these ex... Buy or find out more →
Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgetfulness
$29.99 – Paperback book / Simon And Schuster
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller.
Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise o... Buy or find out more →
Bligh: William Bligh In The South Seas
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin
In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West.
Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recoun... Buy or find out more →
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
$29.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional... Buy or find out more →
Wrecking Crew
$34.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
From the bestselling author of Enforcer
Wrecking Crew takes you into the heart of the Bandidos, and the outlaw biker world, through the eyes, fists and boots of Caesar Campbell, founding member of the Bandidos in Austral... Buy or find out more →
A Little Bird Told Me
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
I think the only way to genuinely relate to people is to be
true to yourself and about yourself. This means revealing the good and the bad. I hope that someone reading this might think ′I know what that feels like′. Buy or find out more →
Compassionate Bastard
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Politicians outdo each other with tough measures to deal with asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. But someone has to look people in the eye and do the questioning, the arresting, the detaining and the deporting. For a... Buy or find out more →
Hubert Who?
$32.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer, naturalist, meteorologist, author, student of the paranormal, and secret agent; loyal lieutenant to Shackleton, Bean and Hearst; the last man from the West to meet with Lenin ... Buy or find out more →
Arguably: Essays
$35.00 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A collection of the most important and controversial writings from the unapologetically provocative yet universally admired Christopher Hitchens.
He raises hackles or receives resounding cheers, he's loved or hated but n... Buy or find out more →
Prime Time
$32.95 – Paperback book / Vermilion
Jane Fonda, the number one bestselling author, actress and workout pioneer, explores how to make all of your life prime time by reflecting on her own experiences. From health and fitness to sex, love and self-understandi... Buy or find out more →
A Tragedy In Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld And Teresa Brennan
$34.99 – Paperback book / Victory Books
This was not the ending either of them expected. Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court judge and human rights champion, and his old friend Teresa Brennan, an exuberant, sometimes controversial US-based academic, had each ... Buy or find out more →
The Triple Agent: The Al Qaeda Mole Who Inflitrated The CIA
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror.
In December 2009, a group of t... Buy or find out more →
Notorious Australian Women
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Abc Books
The sensational lives and exploits of some of Australia′s most audacious women
Notorious Australian Women celebrates the lives of some of Australia′s most fearless, brash and scandalous women. There′s Tilly Devine, who... Buy or find out more →
The Mightiest Magpies: The Story Of Every Collingwood Premiership Season
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Michael Joseph
it's 1902 and Collingwood introduces short-passing tactics that revolutionise the game. It's 1917 and the Magpies rally to keep the VFL competition alive, providing welcome distraction from the war. It's 1930 and the Pie... Buy or find out more →
Air Force: Inside The New Era Of Australian Air Power
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The inside story of the modern Royal Australian Air Force and its people in an action-packed period of air power from East Timor and the Bali bombings to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Award-winning journalist and bes... Buy or find out more →
Pulling No Punches
$34.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
Loved by some, loathed by others, throughout his sixteen seasons in the game Barry Hall has always polarised punters. Not only is he a superstar forward and one of the biggest crowd-pullers of the modern era, he’s also o... Buy or find out more →
Malcolm Blight: Player, Coach, Legend
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Malcolm Blight is as famous for his mercurial nature as he is for his footy and his coaching. He's been a fixture on the Aussie Rules scene since he began playing for the Woodville FC in the SANFL in the late 1960s. In t... Buy or find out more →
Violin Lessons
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
From the songs of Arab diva Umm Khultum on the banks of the Tigris to the strains of a young boy playing the violin for his mother in Melbourne, to the swing jazz of the nightclubs and cabarets of 1940s Baghdad, a fisher... Buy or find out more →
Fair Cop: Christine Nixon
$36.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Christine Nixon became the first female Chief Commissioner of Police in Australia, appointed to head Victoria Police, at a most crucial time—the underworld was in the midst of a bloody war, the spectre of terrorism was e... Buy or find out more →
Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside and Outside of AC/DC
$32.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An honest, revealing and sometimes laugh-out-loud memoir of one of Oz music's noisiest quiet achievers - Mark Evans, the original bass player from AC/DC. A must for any AC/DC fan.
A few days after his 19th birthday, rock... Buy or find out more →
The Casuals
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
′Three things happened at the dawn of the 1990s that would change everything about how we had lived before. We graduated high school, Microsoft shipped Windows 3.0 and America started the Gulf War. We became adults in th... Buy or find out more →
Ghosts By Daylight
$29.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
From award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni a scorching memoir of love and loss.
Before I reached the stairwell, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. A strange and beautiful man had dropped to his knees in f... Buy or find out more →
Constance: The Tragic And Scandalous Life Of Mrs. Oscar Wilde
$47.95 – Hardcover book / John Murray
In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was... Buy or find out more →
Outlaws Inc
$32.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
An extraordinary journey into the biggest, most impenetrable trafficking network the world has ever seen.
In the world's most dangerous and war-torn trouble spots, you will find a small band of men risking their lives to... Buy or find out more →
Brave
$34.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Would you squeeze your way into a shoulder-width, pitch-dark stormwater drain to rescue a kid as it flooded? Would you knowingly cop a 20,000 volt electric shock to save a friend and his child? Would you swim out from th... Buy or find out more →
Say It With Feeling
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Pan Macmillan
Since his arrival in Australia from the US in the early 1960s, Gerald Stone has been at the forefront of Australian news media - initially as a newspaper reporter, but then finding his place at the cutting edge of Austra... Buy or find out more →
Sex On The Moon
$29.95 – Paperback book / William Heinemann
Ocean’s Eleven meets A Beautiful Mind…Sex on The Moon is the amazing true story of the 25-year-old genius who pulled off one of the most unique and significant heists in US history
Thad Roberts lead a pretty good lif... Buy or find out more →
Diagnosis: Male
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
A series of laugh-out-loud funny tales about Troy Harvey′s visits to various doctors for a variety of ailments.
From hypnotherapists to psychologists and GPs, men will relate, and women will enjoy getting a man′s persp... Buy or find out more →
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life In Science
$32.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics. In this gripping new scientific biography of the revered Nobel Prize-winning physicist (and curious character), Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical ... Buy or find out more →
Four Kitchens
$32.99 – Paperback book / Hachette Livre
Out of uni, Lauren Shockey took an entry level job for a PR company that did a lot of work in the food industry. For a food-obsessed young woman it was a way she could combine her love of food with a career her parents a... Buy or find out more →
A Spectacle Of Dust
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hachette Livre
Vibrant and candid memoirs of the great British character actor, Pete Postlethwaite.
Pete Postlethwaite is one of the best-loved and widely admired performers on stage, TV (Sharpe, The Sins) and in cinema.
In THE ART OF ... Buy or find out more →
Letters To My Daughter
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
As Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and the founder of the Liberal Party, Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in our political and cultural history. Letters to My Daughter is a collection of letters written... Buy or find out more →
Straight Shooter
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
A brutally honest account of an astonishing career from a man who is a straight shooter in more ways than one.
Matthew Lloyd at his peak was a goal kicking machine in an era where the power forward was fading from the ga... Buy or find out more →
Clarence Darrow: Attorney For The Damned
$39.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defence attorney and progressive hero.
Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law student dreams of being... Buy or find out more →
The Interrogator: A CIA Agent’s True Story
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
This is the never-before-told story of the ‘dark side’ of the Bush administration’s war on terror, and of one of the CIA’s biggest failures — the kidnapping, rendition, and torture of the wrong man — as told by a person ... Buy or find out more →
Mud, Sweat And Tears
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Corgi Books
The extraordinary life story of the world's most intrepid young explorer
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Bear is a man who has always loved adventure. After leaving school, he spent months hiking in the Himalayas as he considered jo... Buy or find out more →
Stieg And Me
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The poignant, personal story of their life together by Steig Larsson's partner, Eva Gabrielsson.
There is only one person who can tell the real Steig Larsson story, and that is his lifelong companion Eva Gabrielsson. Thi... Buy or find out more →
A Stolen Life
$24.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
On June 10 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over 18 years. On 26 August 2009, Du... Buy or find out more →
Marooned On Mogmog: A Remote Island, a Shipwrecked Aussie Family, a Clash of Cultures
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
′It all ended with a shipwreck. Ten years of planning, dreaming, plotting and scheming - gone in one night. Who even heard of shipwrecks these days? This is the 21st century, not the 1800s. But, happen it did, to a moder... Buy or find out more →
The Changing Form Of Clouds: A Memoir Of Life, Love And Longing
$29.95 – Paperback book / Hybrid
In 1940, a young student watched silently as the German army marched through the streets of Brussels. Her beloved father was an emigré Russian Jew, her restless, difficult mother a Belgian Catholic. Possibly watching wit... Buy or find out more →
Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse
$32.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
The true story of a truly courageous Afghan woman who returned to Afghanistan to deliver humanitarian aid to her people. Hailed by Oprah Winfrey for her bravery.
Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse is an inspirationa... Buy or find out more →
Brothers: Justice, Corruption and the Mickelbergs
$32.95 – Paperback book / Fremantle Arts Ct Pr
When somebody swindled the Perth Mint out of gold worth more than half a million dollars - local police thought they had the culprits. The Mickelberg brothers, Ray, Peter and Brian, were their prime suspects. Already acc... Buy or find out more →
Prodigal Father, Pagan Son
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A shocking true story of one man's escape from a biker gang - by the son of a notorious gang leader.
To the reader: I am 31 years old. I was born the son of the Philadelphia Pagans' most notorious leader. I've been aroun... Buy or find out more →
Black Swan: A Koorie Woman's Life
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years on the Lake Tyers mission to discovery of her talent as a painter.
'It's bad luck to catch a black swan.'
Eileen Harrison grew up at th... Buy or find out more →
Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing
$32.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midni... Buy or find out more →
The Price Of Life
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
In August 2008 Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia, along with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. What happens next could happen to anyone.
You have a brother with a taste for adventure, who you ha... Buy or find out more →
The Chimps Of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
On a small farm in the Canadian countryside, thirteen elderly chimpanzees are living out what’s left of their troubled lives. Retired from the infamous laboratories where they were abused for decades, their home is now a... Buy or find out more →
Lives And Letters
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro
The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, "Lives and Letters "spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writ... Buy or find out more →
Lost In Transit: The Strange Story of the Philip K Dick Android
$29.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
In 2004, a group of men built the Philip K Dick Android. Then, en route to a presentation at Google, the android head was left on a plane. It has never been found.
Meet the Philip K Dick Android. It wears the famous scie... Buy or find out more →
The Honoured Dead: A Story Of Friendship, Murder And The Underbelly Of The Arab World
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Here is a remarkable story of how the Arab Islamic world is being transformed, one life at a time.
Joseph Braude, the first Western journalist ever to be embedded within an Arab security force, is assigned to a hardened ... Buy or find out more →
Roseannearchy
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Pocket Books
Roseanne Barr is a force of nature. Whether taking the sitcom world by storm, challenging accepted social norms, or battling the wild pigs inhabiting her nut farm in Hawaii, she is not to be trifled with. In this return ... Buy or find out more →
Jackaroo
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
From choirboy to cowboy . . .
In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jacka... Buy or find out more →
Tamil Tigress: My Story As A Child Soldier In Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War
$32.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Read Niromi de Soyza's guest blog post about the story that became her book Tamil Tigress.
In 1987, 17-year old Niromi de Soyza shocked her middle-class Sri Lankan family by joining the Tamil Tigers. Equipped with a rif... Buy or find out more →
Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came In From The Desert
$35.00 – Trade paperback /
In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and ... Buy or find out more →
Marlene Dietrich: Life And Legend
$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ Minnesota
From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth surrounding Marlene Dietrich in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on... Buy or find out more →
The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man And Half A Billion Bees Help Feed The World
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The honey bee is a miracle. It is the cupid of the natural world. It pollinates crops; making plants bear fruit and helping farmers make money. But in this age of vast industrial agribusiness, never before has so much be... Buy or find out more →
The Miss Andretti Story
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Ebury Press
This is the true rags-to-riches story of Miss Andretti, the horse from nowhere, bred from nothing, who cost nothing, was originally trained by a nobody and yet conquered the racing world to become the greatest thoroughbr... Buy or find out more →
Austen Tayshus: Merchant Of Menace
$29.95 – Paperback book / Ghr Press
Powerfully written by controversial author-broadcaster Ross Fitzgerald and comedy writer Rick Murphy, Austen Tayshus: Merchant of Menace is a no-holds-barred biography of Australia's edgiest comedian; a man rightly regar... Buy or find out more →
The Address Book
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin Books
Where do you call home?
Performer Jane Clifton had a classic army brat upbringing, constantly on the move as the family followed the postings of her English officer father from Gibraltar to England, Germany to Malaysia a... Buy or find out more →
The Comfort Of Water: A River Pilgrimage
$32.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
‘In these darkening times, we can sense the stories we most need: stories of our country and the power that it holds. Very few books deal with such things. This is one.’ Nicolas Rothwell
This is the joyful yet heartb... Buy or find out more →
Struggle For Freedom: Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Just like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of Burma′s democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi has become an icon for freedom - throughout the world, she is associated with a peaceful struggl... Buy or find out more →
Blood, Bones And Butter: A French Culinary Education
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
A sharply crafted and unflinchingly honest memoir ('simply the best memoir by a chef ever. Ever.' Anthony Bourdain) about the search for meaning and purpose from one of America's most recognized chefs and up-and-coming l... Buy or find out more →
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol To Zionism: The Very Best Of Christopher Hitchens
$21.99 – Paperback book / Da Capo
Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God—appearances that have attracted... Buy or find out more →
Seduced By Logic
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica changed forever humanity's understanding of its place in the universe - not with the traditional tools of theology or philosophy but with the seductive logic of mathematics. Emilie du... Buy or find out more →
Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story Of Courage, Love And Survival
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
May, 1992. Hana is twelve years old when she is put on one of the last UN evacuation buses fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo. Her twenty-one-year-old sister, Atka, staying behind to look after their five younger sibl... Buy or find out more →
Lionel Logue: The King's Mentor
$19.95 – Paperback book / Norman Hutchinson
Adelaide born and educated Lionel Logue commenced as an elocutionist and Shakespearean actor in South Australia before moving to Perth where he married and had three sons. He branched out into public speaking, drama teac... Buy or find out more →
William And Catherine: Their Lives Their Romance Their Wedding
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
The story of Prince William and Catherine Midddleton s romance and wedding. This is THE book for any Royalwatcher or anyone captivated by this real-life fairytale.
Andrew Morton, well-connected British royal biographer a... Buy or find out more →
Making Trouble: Essays Against The New Australian Complacency
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne.
In Making Trouble, Australia’s leading public intellectual takes aim at the “new Australian complacency”.
Th... Buy or find out more →
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
The iconic French singer comes to life in this enthralling, definitive biography, which captures Edith Piaf’s immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her unprecedented international career.
Rai... Buy or find out more →
El Sicario: Confessions Of A Cartel Hitman
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'I'm going to tell you about 20 years of my life dedicated to serving the cartel. Serving them with these hands. Torturing people. And killing.'
In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman te... Buy or find out more →
Jeannie Out Of The Bottle
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Over the past four decades, the landmark television series I Dream of Jeannie has enchanted several generations of fans around the world, and inspired millions of teenage crushes on its beautiful blonde star, Barbara Ede... Buy or find out more →
I'm Over All That And Other Confessions
$24.99 – Paperback book /
IN THIS THIRD ACT OF MY LIFE, MUCH HAS BECOME CLEARER. SO MUCH IS OVER, AND I AM OVER SO MUCH . . .'
At a certain time in life, we all come to realize what is truly important to us and what just doesn't matter. For Shirl... Buy or find out more →
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
An astonishing memoir by one of Hollywood's top actors
A wryly funny and moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye.
Teen idol at fifteen, international icon and founder of the Brat P... Buy or find out more →
No Time For Fear: How The Shark Man Beat The Odds
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Paul de Gelder lost his right arm and leg to a violent shark attack in Sydney Harbour when he was going about his work as a Navy clearance diver in February 2009. He was lucky to survive, let alone resume work as a diver... Buy or find out more →
Beautiful Thing: Portrait Of A Bombay Bar Dancer
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
When Sonia Faleiro set out to report on Bombay's bar dancers, she thought she knew what she would find: downtrodden, voiceless women, the helpless victims of predictable poverty.
Instead she meets Leela: nineteen, charis... Buy or find out more →
Style Notes
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
MAGGIE ALDERSON, novelist, philosopher of fashion and arbiter of style, brings us a new collection of her much-loved Style Notes column.
Find out why men hate shopping and why women love wearing clothes men hate. Share t... Buy or find out more →
The Dressmaker Of Khair Khana
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
The remarkable story of an unlikley entrepreneur who, against all odds, saved her family and inspired her community in Afghanistan.
When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamela Sediqi and all the women of Kabul saw the... Buy or find out more →
Reading My Father
$35.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Scribner
The youngest daughter of the late novelist William Styron fashions a conflicted, guarded, ultimately reverential portrait of a deeply troubled artist. Dogged all his life by depressionwhich was not diagnosed properly unt... Buy or find out more →
The Lost Cyclist
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Mainstream
In the spring of 1892, Frank G. Lenz, a gallant young accountant and expert amateur photographer from a modest German-American family, set forth from his unhappy home in Pittsburgh to circle the globe atop a new 'safety'... Buy or find out more →
Signs Of Life
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
An emotional and luminous memoir of a 24-year-old newly married, pregnant high school teacher whose husband is suddenly killed. A journey from wife to widow to mother. Witty, exhilarating and unforgettable.
Twenty-four-y... Buy or find out more →
No Regrets: The Life Of Edith Piaf
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
The iconic French singer comes to life in this enthralling, definitive biography, which captures Edith Piaf’s immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her unprecedented international career.
Rai... Buy or find out more →
If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't)
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Ebury Press
It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between.
Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White's wit and wisdom take cent... Buy or find out more →
Dear Zari
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
Moving, enlightening, heart-breaking – this is a book of true stories from women in Afghanistan, giving voice to these women for the first time and allowing them to tell their stories in their own words…
In 2001 Zarg... Buy or find out more →
I, Mick Gatto (Updated Edition)
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Mick Gatto.
Gambler.
Underworld veteran.
Melbourne gangland survivor.
Mick Gatto in his bestselling autobiography finally reveals the man behind the headlines.
Gatto's unique position-of knowing all the players in the Ga... Buy or find out more →
My Heart Wanders: A Celebration of Taking Risks, Letting Go and Making a Home Wherever You Are
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
What would happen if one day you decided to follow your heart? Where would it take you? Pia Jane Bijkerk takes us on her journey as she leaves behind a comfortable life in Sydney to follow, unconditionally, her instincts... Buy or find out more →
Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
When Lindsay Tanner resigned in 2010 as the ALP’s federal minister for finance and member for Melbourne, having had an 18-year career as an MP, he notably managed to retire with his reputation for integrity intact. In Si... Buy or find out more →
Tales From The Cancer Ward
$29.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
To be vulnerable is to live. In Tales from the Cancer Ward renowned filmmaker Paul Cox celebrates the beauty and fragility of life. The unexpected message of illness that he is delivered leaves him feeling utterly alone ... Buy or find out more →
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
One day shortly after her father's death, when Jasmin Darznik is helping her mother move house, a photograph falls from a stack of old letters. The girl in it is her mother. She is wearing a wedding veil, and at her side... Buy or find out more →
Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
At two in the afternoon, when he would come and pick me up and take me for rides; at five, when I would read to him, head on his chest; in the despair at seven p.m., when he would hold me and rub my belly for an hour; in... Buy or find out more →
Mountains Beyond Mountains: One Doctor's Quest To Heal The World
$27.99 – Paperback book / Profile
One man's fight to save lives in Haiti and everywhere.
Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Strength in What Remains... Buy or find out more →
Red Silk: A Biography Of Elliott Johnson QC
$32.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
Elliott Johnston is a working class hero. He and Elizabeth Johnston became Communists in 1941 and he resigned only to join the South Australian Supreme Court Bench. His appointment as Queen's Counsel by the Dunstan Gover... Buy or find out more →
Whitlam
$29.95 – Paperback book / Rosenberg Publishing
Governor-General Sir John Kerr’s dismissal of the elected Whitlam Government in 1975, more or less at the behest of the Liberal-Country Party Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, was among the most momentous events in Austra... Buy or find out more →
Both Sides Of The Wire: The Memoir Of Captain William Cull
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
This is Bill Cull's unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a POW until the end of the war.
This is Bill Cull's unforget... Buy or find out more →
Cooking Dirty: Life, Love And Death In The Kitchen
$24.99 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
A mindblowing account of life at the adrenalin-fuelled kitchen frontline - the story of a career spent working in grungy diners and other down-and-dirty joints, taking the kitchen memoir to a rough and reckless new level... Buy or find out more →
Remind Me Who I Am, Again
$24.99 – Paperback book / Granta
At the beginning of the nineties Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose's illness, and tries to reconstruct the history of their Jewish i... Buy or find out more →
Betty Churcher's Notebooks
$45.00$44.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
'My Notebooks' is an intimate guide through some of the great art galleries of Europe and the United States. From Goya to Gauguin and Rembrandt to Manet she reveals the secrets behind the artworks that have been passions... Buy or find out more →
The Most Dangerous Man In The World
$32.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Hours of top-secret videos and hundreds of thousands of highly classified documents pour from the vaults of the most powerful nation on earth. They expose lies, hypocrisy, cover-ups and high level diplomatic gossip, maki... Buy or find out more →
Wild Women: History's Female Rebels, Radicals and Revolutionaries
$39.99 – Paperback book / Pier 9
Wild Women details the lives and deeds of some of the most extraordinary women in history. Trailblazers, hell-raisers and firebrands, these women showed a level of daring and disregard for traditional gender roles comple... Buy or find out more →
I Was Douglas Adams's Flatmate And Other Encounters With Legends
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
A funny and revealing book of personal stories of how ordinary people have taken to living or working with great stars.
Andrew McGibbon brings his sharp and witty attention to a group of people who spent time with legend... Buy or find out more →
Possessed: The Life Of Joan Crawford
$38.95 – Hardcover book / William Morrow & Co
New York Times bestselling author Donald Spoto has already brilliantly explored the lives and careers of numerous Hollywood stars and entertainment icons—Grace Kelly, James Dean, Alfred Hitchcock, and Marilyn Monroe, to ... Buy or find out more →
As Always, Julia: The Letters Of Julia Child And Avis Devoto: Food, Friendship And The Making Of A Masterpiece
$35.95 – Hardcover book /
Culinary historian Reardon's collection of the correspondence between Child and her pen pal, Avis DeVoto (portrayed in the film Julie & Julia by Deborah Rush), bubbles over with intimate insights into their friendshi... Buy or find out more →
Half In Love: Surviving The Legacy Of Suicide
$31.95 – Hardcover book / Counterpoint Press
After the agony of witnessing her mother’s multiple—and ultimately successful—suicide attempts, Linda Gray Sexton, daughter of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton, struggles with an engulfing undertow of depressi... Buy or find out more →
Saul Bellow Letters
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Usa
A never-before-published collection of letters-an intimate self- portrait as well as the portrait of a century.
Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spannin... Buy or find out more →
Arthur Miller 1962-2005
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
The first volume of Christopher Bigsby's award-winning biography of Arthur Miller was hailed as a masterpiece and the definitive account of Miller's early years.
Here, now, is the second half of Miller's captivating stor... Buy or find out more →
Elizabeth Bishop And The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro
A rare glimpse at the artistic development of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated poets.
I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.—with heaps of used co... Buy or find out more →
Everyone Loves You When You're Dead
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead is an hilarious and revealing collection of celebrity interviews by Neil Strauss, the bestselling author of The Game and The Dirt. Strauss has been a reporter for Rolling Stone magaz... Buy or find out more →
No Direction Home: The Life And Music Of Bob Dylan
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Robert Shelton became Bob Dylan's friend, champion, and biographer. No Direction Home took 20 years to complete. It was first published in 1986, and now more than 25 years on, this new edition will be published to coinci... Buy or find out more →
1001 Australian Nights
$29.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
Legendary rock showman Dave Graney takes us on a journey about self- discovery. As a young man fired up by punk rock he sets off on a road-trip from small-town Australia, outside of life and looking for a way in. When he... Buy or find out more →
Love, Wisdom, Motherhood: Conversations With Inspiring Women
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Heartwarming, inspirational, funny and revealing, Jessica Rowe interviews some of Australia's most influential women about their experience of becoming a mother.
Each year, every year, new mothers face all sorts of chall... Buy or find out more →
Waltzing With Jack Dancer: A Slow Dance With Cancer
$29.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
'Geoff Goodfellow is one of those rare people who says what he thinks, usually with a few expletives added. When he learned he had cancer, he told the disease what he thought of it and, like a boxer, prepared himself for... Buy or find out more →
No Angel: The Secret Life Of Bernie Ecclestone
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
Private, mysterious and some say sinister, 79 year-old Bernie Ecclestone criss-crosses the globe in his private jet mixing with celebrities, statesmen and sporting heroes. Ecclestone's success has not just been to create... Buy or find out more →
Be Different
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
The author of the New York Times bestselling LOOK ME IN THE EYE returns,with endearing stories and actionable advice that will help Aspergians, and even ordinary geeks, embrace being different and work on the things that... Buy or find out more →
Across Many Mountains
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
A Tibetan Wild Swans. The story of a grandmother, mother and daughter who have loved and lost one of the most extraordinary countries in the world.
At a Free Tibet demonstration in Moscow in 2001, a Swiss actress is capt... Buy or find out more →
Townie: A Memoir
$32.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and ... Buy or find out more →
The Band That Played On: The Extaordinary Story Of The Eight Musicians Who Went Down With The Titanic
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Published to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of the Titanic’s launch comes this inspiring portrait of music and courage
When the Titanic collided with an iceberg on April 14th 1912, the eight members of the ship... Buy or find out more →
My Animated Life
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Brandl Schlesinger
Australia’s animation pioneer Yoram Gross, in his newly released autobiography My Animated Life tells his story of a life filled with adventure, of how he outwitted the forces ranged against him before going on to deli... Buy or find out more →
Oprah: A Biography
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The first complete portrait of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time - the international talk show queen revealed as never before.
Based on three years of research and reporting as... Buy or find out more →
My Korean Deli: Risking It All For A Convenience Store
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company
It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to go along.... Buy or find out more →
Wolfram: The Boy Who Went To War
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
A powerful story of a young man conscripted into Hitler's army and a family left behind.
Wolfram tells the story of Hitler's Germany through German eyes and how a young man's world was turned upside down by the megaloman... Buy or find out more →
Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
Best known as the author of the classic Darkness at Noon, Koestler was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals, involved in and commenting on almost every political movement of the twentieth century. ... Buy or find out more →
Finding Valentino: Four Seasons in My Father's Italy
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Valentino Di Sciascio can no longer describe his past or his culture, and his family's heritage may be lost to the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. Deciding not to let his story fade, his daughter Angela travels the lengt... Buy or find out more →
Dog Walks Man: A Six-Legged Odyssey
$22.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
An art critic is duped into getting a dog by his children and begins a metaphysical journey discovering a new world on his doorstep and a new way of thinking.
This is a touching, witty and thought-provoking exploration o... Buy or find out more →
When Horse Became Saw: A Family's Journey Through Autism
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
When Anthony Macris' son was diagnosed with autism, he and his partner Kathy had two choices: do what they were told – and could afford – or do what they thought best. This is the tragic, joyful, instructive story of how... Buy or find out more →
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited... Buy or find out more →
Rare: A Life Among Antiquarian Books
$65.00 – Hardcover book / Jane Curry
Beautiful and valuable books, arcane terms and conventions, eccentric personalities these are the mainstays of the fascinating world of antiquarian books.
Kay Craddock has lived in that world for over forty years. She em... Buy or find out more →
Secret Historian: The Life And Times Of Samuel Steward: Professor Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro
Shortlisted for the National Book Award 2010.
Life in the closet proves boisterous indeed in this biography of an iconic figure of the pre-Stonewall gay demimonde. Steward (19091993) was an English professor, a novelist ... Buy or find out more →
Beating The Odds
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
The exclusive biography of SP bookie Alan Tripp, a man some call a genius and others call a criminal.With an estimated fortune nearing the $500 million mark, his was one of the most successful illegal bookmaking business... Buy or find out more →
Tough Without A Gun The Life And Extraordinary Afterlife Of Humphrey Bogart
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Humphrey Bogart: it's hard to think of anyone who's had the same lasting impact on the culture of movies. Though he died at the young age of fifty-seven more than half a century ago, his influence among actors and filmma... Buy or find out more →
Treblinka A Survivors Memory
$54.99 – Hardcover book /
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the g... Buy or find out more →
Franklin And Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
$36.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since thei... Buy or find out more →
Life Without Limits
$24.99 – Trade paperback / Inspired Living
Life Without Limits is the story of gutsy Nick Vujicic, an amazing 28-year-old Aussie born without arms or legs who is now an internationally successful inspirational speaker. Packed full of wisdom, testimonials of his f... Buy or find out more →
Rugmaker Of Mazar E Sharif
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Wild Dingo Press
This moving and poignant work gives the reader a rare insight into the contented 'milk and honey' life of a simple Afghan family before the civil war ripped their country apart. The lives and centuries-old livelihood of ... Buy or find out more →
Bumper
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Hachette
Based on never-before-published family, police and court records, photographs, interviews with people who knew him, including criminals, football colleagues and police officers, this is the biography of Frank 'Bumper' Fa... Buy or find out more →
English Opium Eater A Biography Of Thomas De Quincey
$39.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.
Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victoria... Buy or find out more →
Talented Miss Highsmith
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite hero-criminal, talented Tom Ripley. In this revolutionary biography, Joan Schenkar pa... Buy or find out more →
Mia Culpa
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Sometimes, when I meet someone new and I tell them I'm a writer, they ask 'What do you write about?' Tricky question. It's a lot like asking a woman who's just come home from a girl's dinner 'What did you talk about?' Th... Buy or find out more →
Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Witty, entertaining and provocative, this is a unique and important memoir that will transform your perspective of parenting forever.
A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids.... Buy or find out more →
Bird Cloud
$27.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
′Bird Cloud′ is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and 400 foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in th... Buy or find out more →
Thirty Something And The Clock Is Ticking
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Ebury Press
What happens when you can no longer ignore the baby question
When Kasey Edwards discovers she'll be infertile within a year, she is forced to dig the baby issue out of the too-hard basket. She explores what motherhood wo... Buy or find out more →
Me, Myself And Lord Byron
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Pier 9
'Mad, bad and dangerous to know', Lord Byron was not just one of England's finest poets, he was also history's first true rock star, living a life of abundant extravagance and shocking scandal that led eventually to self... Buy or find out more →
Mennonite In A Little Black Dress
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
An immensely moving memoir of healing, certain to touch anyone who has ever had to look homeward in order to move ahead.
Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her ... Buy or find out more →
Human Headlines: My 50 Years In The Media
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Cocoon Lodge
Hes met all the movers and shakers. And sometimes Derryn Hinch has moved and even shaken some of them. How did Malcolm Fraser really lose his trousers in Memphis? And what happened with Raquel Welch at the Logies? In thi... Buy or find out more →
Your Voice In My Head
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring depression and self-destruction, in a voice unlike any other.
Emma Forrest, an English journalist, was twenty-two and living in America when she realised that her quirks had go... Buy or find out more →
The Sound Of A Wild Snail Eating
$22.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris—a common woodland snail.... Buy or find out more →
Not Dark Yet
$32.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
David Walker is a distinguished Australian social historian whose eyesight deteriorated suddenly at the end of 2004 as a result of macular degeneration. His blindness caused him to reconsider his own relation to the past... Buy or find out more →
Known And Unknown: A Memoir
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Usa
Like Donald Rumsfeld, "Known and Unknown" pulls no punches.
With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush ... Buy or find out more →
Last Empress
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Phoenix House
THE LAST EMPRESS revolves around a fascinating, manipulative woman and her family who were largely responsible for dragging China into the modern world.Soong May-ling, or Madame Chiang as she was known, is uniquely posit... Buy or find out more →
A Widow's Story: A Memoir
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be... Buy or find out more →
A Girl Called Tim
$29.95 – Paperback book / New Holland Pub
This memoir is about a journey of more than 40 years with two eating disorders.
I was 11 years old, in Grade Six at primary school, when I developed a mental illness called anorexia nervosa. It starved my body and I beca... Buy or find out more →
The UFO Diaries: Travels In The Weird World Of High Strangeness
$24.99 – Paperback book / Arena
A funny, weird and hugely entertaining memoir of travelling around the world in search of UFO landing sights, UFO believers and abductees.
When postgrad student Martin Plowman became fascinated by the weird world of UFOs... Buy or find out more →
Alice Behind Wonderland
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, and then snapped the camera... Buy or find out more →
The Deeds Of My Fathers: How My Grandfather And Father Built New York And Created The Tabloid World Of Today
$39.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
A true story that reads like The Godfather crossed with Citizen Kane
Intense rivalry and Borgia-like cunning made the Pope family one of America’s wealthiest and most influential. Creators of a tabloid empire that includ... Buy or find out more →
The Imago: E.L. Grant Watson And Australia
$49.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
Biographer Suzanne Falkiner presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E. L. Grant Watson, whose experiences as a young man in Australia at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped his later years as a noveli... Buy or find out more →
Splints To Silk
$39.95 – Paperback book / Hunter Publishers
Splints to Silk recounts the life of Francis Walsh AM, QC, from his early life in rural Victoria, overcoming childhood polio and learning to walk at the age of seven, through his long and distinguished legal career, culm... Buy or find out more →
Autobiography Of Mark Twain: The Complete And Authoritative Edition Volume One
$70.00$54.95 – Hardcover book / Univ California Pr
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of... Buy or find out more →
My Favourite Teacher
$32.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
In My Favourite Teacher high-profile Australians including children’s author Mem Fox, comedian Anh Do, retired Chief Justice Michael Kirby, broadcaster Alan Jones and The Chaser’s Julian Morrow, along with contributors f... Buy or find out more →
MacRobertsonland
$20.00 – Paperback book / Arcade
MacRoberstonland tells the amazing rags to riches tale of Australia’s very own Willy Wonka, MacPherson Robertson.
Mostly lost to history, the man behind some of Australia’s favourite confectionery – including Freddo Fr... Buy or find out more →
My Life Story
$35.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Ben Cousins has one of the most extraordinary stories in modern Australian sport. He's perhaps the most gifted player of his generation – a former captain of the West Coast eagles, a Brownlow medallist, a premiership win... Buy or find out more →
The Memory Chalet
$36.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin
""It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there ... Buy or find out more →
How To Make Gravy
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
This extraordinary book has its genesis in a series of concerts first staged in 2004. Over four nights Paul Kelly performed, in alphabetical order, one hundred of his songs from the previous three decades. In between son... Buy or find out more →
Life
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Orion
An international publishing event - one of the very few rock memoirs ever to have been published by a living legend.
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the wor... Buy or find out more →
Poser: A Memoir In 24 Yoga Poses
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Turn away now if you are expecting a treatise on 'paths' and 'destiny'. Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out trying to breastfeed her rapidly growing baby daughter. Reluctantly following the advice of everyone ... Buy or find out more →
Working The Room
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Canongate
This collection sees the best of Geoff Dyer’s extensive essays and journalism from the last ten years collected in one volume. It follows Anglo-English Attitudes, the last collected volume of essays from 1999.
Characte... Buy or find out more →
The Hilliker Curse
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
A raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of his novels.
The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. ... Buy or find out more →
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
On childhood holidays to the beach the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a w... Buy or find out more →
Decoded
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Virgin Publishing
This is the intimate, first-person chronicle of the life and work of Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter in Brooklyn's notorious Marcy Projects, now known to many as the greatest rapper alive. Told through lyrics, images and person... Buy or find out more →
Kate and William: A Royal Love Story
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Will was the boy who would one day be king; Kate was the middle class girl who had harboured a crush on him since her school days. Both were new students at the University of St Andrews in 2001, facing the same challenge... Buy or find out more →
Nerd Do Well
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Century
The unique life story of one of Britain’s most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Star Trek.
Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the ... Buy or find out more →
Proust's Overcoat: The True Story Of One Man's Passion For All Things Proust
$27.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Part literary mystery, part biography, part curiosity, here is the short, charming (and true) story of one man's obsession with Marcel Proust.
The story of the overcoat begins with a chance meeting - between an obsessive... Buy or find out more →
Unholy Pilgrims: How One Man Thought Walking 800 Kilometres Across Spain Would Sort Out His Life
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Sometimes the slow road can be the fastest way to sort things out
Relationship-challenged, with the résumé of a vagrant, Tom Trumble is at one of life's crossroads. So he takes up an offer to go on a seriously long walk ... Buy or find out more →
The Box
$45.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Harvill
The sequel to Grass's controversial and successful book Peeling the Onion.
Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters - four, five, six, eight in number - an... Buy or find out more →
America By Heart: Reflections On Family, Faith And Flag
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivers an intimate and personal look at the woman behind the public servant. In her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Going Rogue—the bestselling nonfiction book of 2009—Palin gave... Buy or find out more →
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet In The Library
$20.00 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
Claude Levi-Strauss, author of the modern classic Tristes Tropiques , was one of the most influential intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century, whose ideas and methods inspired the work of Michel Foucaul... Buy or find out more →
Oprah: The Biography
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
The first complete portrait of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time - the international talk show queen revealed as never before.
Based on three years of research and reporting as... Buy or find out more →
A Life In Pictures
$60.00 – Hardcover book / Canongate
Alasdair Gray is known throughout the world for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who not only designs and illustrates his own books, but has created many beautiful and intriguing portraits, painting, ... Buy or find out more →
Unbroken
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
The new book from the author of the bestselling and much-loved Seabiscuit. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick ... Buy or find out more →
My Spiritual Autobiography
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Rider
The first fascinating autobiography of His Holiness' spiritual life
This book is a first. There has never been one entirely dedicated to the spiritual life of the Dalai Lama. Yet as one of the world’s most recognised, an... Buy or find out more →
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Phoenix House
Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s, including the filming of The Meaning of Life and A Fish Called Wanda.
After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in ... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
The diary of a remarkable woman who lived life on her terms in Regency Yorkshire. Anne Lister was a wealthy landowner, industrialist and lesbian.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister ... Buy or find out more →
Handling Edna
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
An intimate and penetrating examination of the world's most famous woman, Dame Edna Everage, by the man who knows her best.
In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy... Buy or find out more →
Just Kids
$22.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, an... Buy or find out more →