Books / Biography and Memoir
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
Judith Brett's new biography of Alfred Deakin, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, reveals the intense inner world of one of Australia's most important political figures.
$49.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Escape Artist: The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck
The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck.In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break - an audacious night-time escape from a German...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Eyes On The Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Mouth that Roared
Award-winning writer, Robert Hillman, has collaborated with one of Australia's best-known youth outreach workers and social campaigners, to bring his story to the public in that wonderful storytelling style that Robert and Les...
$29.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
The New York Times bestselling memoir of President Barack Obama's deputy chief of staff - like no political memoir you've ever read before.
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Tex
The autobiography of Australian rock 'n' roll legend, Tex Perkins.
$34.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love
From the author of The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Raphael Baker's new book Thirty Days is a meditation on life, death, love and marriage, written with an honesty that bares the souls of two people who shared their lives.
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Shackled
In 2013, Australian earth scientist Chris Turney led an ambitious expedition to Antarctica. It promised so much - discovery, history, adventure - but came with great risk. The story of Turney's ship, the Shokalskiy, and the plight...
$35.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Baby Lost: A Story of Grief and Hope
What happens when a death occurs within your body, but you survive? In Hannah's struggle to make sense of the personal and legal aftermath, she had to find out what it means to mother a dead child and to renegotiate her own...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Memoir of the Middle East
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents.
$34.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Live Lead Learn: My Stories of Life and Leadership
Inspiring, practical, generous and optimistic, one of our finest communicators and most successful businesswomen shares what she's learned about leadership, the culture of the workplace and the vital importance of living a whole...
$35.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Big Pig, Little Pig: A Tale of Two Pigs in France
When Jacqueline moves to south-west France with her husband, she embraces rural village life and buys two pigs to rear for slaughter. But as she gets to know the animals better, her English sentimentality threatens to get in the...
$35.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
One Halal of a Story
As in life, Sam Dastyari's memoir is unexpected and unorthodox. This is the man who introduced Pauline Hanson to the halal snack pack and accountability to big banks. One Halal of a Story is a no-holds-barred look at the good and...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Every Lie I’ve Ever Told
The original Anti-Cool Girl is back! Rosie Waterland took Australia by storm in 2015 with her critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir The Anti-Cool Girl, her irrepresible, blackly comic account of her...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Che, My Brother
On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided...
$39.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Trans Like Me
An agenda-setting, emotionally engaging book on transgender identity.
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Miracles Do Happen
After the war, miraculously, Fela and Felix found each other. None of Fela's family had survived. Of Felix's immediate family, only his two sisters had survived - and they were now in Sweden. The young couple were bereft and...
$27.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
On the Wagon
On the Wagon is a young recovering alcoholic's quest to find the true meaning of freedom by following the route of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, one of the most abiding expressions of freedom in popular culture.<br...
$24.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
$49.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Escape Artist: The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Mouth that Roared
$29.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Shackled
$35.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Live Lead Learn: My Stories of Life and Leadership
$35.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
One Halal of a Story
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Father Figures
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Baby Lost: A Story of Grief and Hope
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from Detention
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Girl Who Beat ISIS: Farida’s Story
$35.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Songs of a War Boy
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Yassmin’s Story
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
A Hope More Powerful than the Sea
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Voiceless Journeys
$50.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Nujeen: One Girl’s Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Journey Of A Thousand Storms
$35.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Folded Clock: A Diary
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Negroland: A Memoir
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
$24.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Madness: A Memoir
$19.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
$28.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
When Breath Becomes Air
$19.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
My Place
$24.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
$19.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Just Another Hurdle
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
My Way
$27.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Art of Cycling
$49.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Stroke Of Genius
$39.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Legacy
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Test Of Character: Confessions Of Cricket Legends
$34.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Aussie Grit
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
A Beautiful Game: My love affair with cricket
$34.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill
$49.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Evatt: A life
$44.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
No Job for a Woman
$32.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
$24.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Rasputin: The Biography
$15.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
My Story
$34.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Albanese: Telling It Straight
$34.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Long Walk To Freedom
$26.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq
$34.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
$35.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Complete MAUS
$29.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Persepolis I and II (Film tie-in)
$19.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Everything is Teeth
$39.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Amazing Fantastic Incredible
$45.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Honor Girl
$24.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight
$26.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Dare to be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Finding Nevo: How I Confused Everyone
$18.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Open: A Toolkit for How Magic and Messed Up Life Can Be
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Notes on Being Teenage
$15.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Hidden Figures: Young Readers' Edition
$13.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Hollywood Days with Hayes
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Maddie Diaries
$24.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Don’t see anything you like? Search our catalogue of over a million books.