Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A triumphant story of hope and survival. I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and fac ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
$25.99 AUD
Category: Biography
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...Show more
The Man Behind the Curtain by Jessica Renee; Valerie Dimino
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jessica Renee was 11 years old when her stepfather began routinely raping and sexually assaulting her. Only when she was 15 and her boyfriend asked the right questions did the truth come to light-a terrible truth that her mother chose not to believe. Backed by a church community that believed a woman's ...Show more
Unbound - My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tarana Burke, I just finished Unbound. Searing. Powerful. Needed!! Thank you. --Oprah This program is read by the author. From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir abou ...Show more
Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Hagen, Sofie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
‘Perfect, kind, hilarious and persuasive’ Lena Dunham ‘You need this book. Your mum needs this book. Your best friend needs this book. Everyone needs a dose of Happy Fat!’ Julie Murphy In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-accep ...Show more
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London by Erik Larson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisisOne of Chicago Tribune's Best Books of the Year So Far ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free' The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert's fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Gu ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard by Nathan Hobby
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Novelist, journalist and activist Katharine Susannah Prichard won fame for vivid novels that broke new ground depicting distinctly Australian ways of life and work - from Gippsland pioneers and West Australian prospectors to Pilbara station hands and outback opal miners. Her prize-winning debut The Pion ...Show more
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company and the best writers of our time Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for ...Show more
I'm Liz Hayes by Liz Hayes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Liz Hayes has graced our television screens for more than four decades. Millions of Australians kicked off their weeks with Liz co-hosting Channel 9's Today show, and now for over 25 years have settled into their Sunday nights to watch her investigative journalism on 60 Minutes. From camping in grizzly ...Show more
Wild Love: The ambitions of Adelaide Ironside by Kiera Lindsey
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Kiera Lindsey uncovers the life of the talented and exuberant colonial painter Adelaide Ironside, following in her footsteps from the shores of Sydney harbour to the leading artistic circles of Europe. Colonial lasses were expected to marry at 16, but she wanted to be an artist, not a wife, and she had ...Show more