The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angel ...Show more
Kings In Grass Castles by Mary Durack
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
" ... far better than any novel; an incomparable record of a greart family and of a series of great actions. The Bulletin When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a cattle empire across the great stretches of Australia. With a profoun ...Show more
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the 2019 Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you l ...Show more
Heartsick: Three stories about love and loss, and what happens in between by Jessie Stephens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Claire has returned from London to the dust and familiarity of her childhood home, only to realise something is wrong with her partner Maggie. Patrick is a lonely uni student, until he meets Caitlin - but does she feel as connected as he does? Ana is happily married with three children. Then, one night, ...Show more
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new so ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor: Now a major BBC comedy-drama by Adam Kay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Now A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. 'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior do ...Show more
Love Language: A Memoir of Family, Music and Pasta by Linda Marigliano
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A compelling, relatable and powerfully moving memoir of people-pleasing, family and what it means to love and be loved, from radio presenter and podcaster Linda Marigliano. Linda Marigliano has built a career out of performing for other people. In her day-job as an on-air presenter or in her family hom ...Show more
The Writing On The Wall by Juliet Rieden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1938, as Hitler's troops are marching on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but destroy their family. Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s wondering why she had so few relatives, why her family ...Show more
The Secret Life of Flying: What really happens when you travel by air by Jeremy Burfoot
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How does a plane stay up in the air? Does the Mile High Club actually exist? When you flush the toilet, where does it all go? Buckle up for some turbulence because nothing flies under the radar for Captain Jeremy Burfoot. With more than 35 years of airline experience, the former Qantas pilot presents an ...Show more
Naked by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me. Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas i ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Aust
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more