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Hunger : A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
$22.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
New York Times bestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistLambda Literary Award winnerA best book of 2017: Time NPR People Elle The Washington Post The Los Angeles Times The Chicago Tribune Newsday St. Louis Post-Dispatch PopSugar BookRiot Library Journal Booklist Kirkus Reviews Shelf Awarenes ...Show more
My Salinger Year by Joanna Smith Rakoff
$19.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reig ...Show more
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
$22.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cur ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: biography & memoir | Reading Level: Easy
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Monsters by Alison Croggon
$29.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
From award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon, Monsters is a hybrid of memoir and essay that takes as its point of departure the painful breakdown of a relationship between two sisters. It explores how our attitudes are shaped by the persisting myths that underpin colonialism and patriarchy, how t ...Show more
Literary Lion Tamers: Book Editors Who Made Publishing History by Craig Munro
$29.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
'Writers, their friends, enemies, editors, and publishers began to materialise out of the library's archive boxes, and I found myself setting off in search of these elusive, eccentric, and often quarrelsome characters.' In this unique and entertaining blend of memoir, biography, and literary detective w ...Show more
Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary by Brian Eno
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardcover edition. At the end of 1994, musician, producer and artist Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go to the cinema, theatre and galleries fell through quickly. What ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
$29.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life by Lyndsy Spence
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The six Mitford girls were blessed with beauty, wit and talent, yet they led very distinct, cultural lives and not one sister, except for Diana and Unity, shared the same opinion or ideology. Nancy Mitford was the ultimate tease and her talent for mockery reformed the publishing industry in the 1930s an ...Show more
Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
A thoughtful and revealing memoir from one of the world's most recognizable women, renowned for her bold risk-taking, multiculturalism, and activism. "I am a product of traditional India and its ancient wisdom, and modern India and its urban bustle. My upbringing was always an amalgamation of the two I ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Yumiko Kadota was a young, gifted medical student - the top of her class - on her way to becoming an outstanding plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Fourteen years she'd studied and worked hard. She put in 70-hour weeks at the public hospital as a plastic surgery registrar, accepted everything her super ...Show more
Fracture: Trauma, Success and the Origins of Greatness by Matthew Parris
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Matthew Parris, presenter of Great Lives on BBC Radio 4, explores the surprising connection between trauma and greatness through vivid case histories. Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that sti ...Show more