The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at the core Haydar gives us truths about love. This is one of the most important books I've ever read.' Bri Lee'I am from a family of strong women.'Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mo ...Show more
The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth Century Melbourne by Barbara Minchinton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne's history. Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brot ...Show more
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from What Will People Think? to I Am Enough by Brené Brown
$19.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Researcher, thought leader, and New York Times bestselling author Bren Brown offers a liberating study on the importance of our imperfections--both to our relationships and to our own sense of self The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting. There is a constant barrage of social expectat ...Show more
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
$22.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris--a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residenc ...Show more
Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white girl w ...Show more
One Woman's War: A Novel of the Real Miss Moneypenny by Christine Wells
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
From the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny, whose international covert operation is put in jeopardy when a volatile socialite and Austrian double agent th ...Show more
Justice in Kelly Country: The Story of the Cop Who Hunted Australia’s Most Notorious Bushrangers by Lachlan Strahan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Part way through the Jerilderie Letter, Ned Kelly accused Senior Constable Anthony Strahan of threatening him: ‘he would not ask me to stand he would shoot me first like a dog’. Those few fateful words have echoed through Australian history as the cause of much bloodshed and violence. They marked Anthon ...Show more
I Am NOT Fine, Thanks by Wil Anderson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Good sense, good jokes, and good WIL- a book about enduring turbulent times with humour, community and just a dash of apple cider vinegar. How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the tradition was to reply, 'I'm fine, thanks.' Then you would ask how they were ...Show more
Everything and Nothing by Heather Mitchell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A powerful, immersive and intimately candid memoir exploring the light and shade that co-exist in love, family and the arts, from esteemed Australian stage and screen actor Heather Mitchell. Behind the scenes, Heather Mitchell's real life has taken many remarkable twists and turns. Training an unflinch ...Show more
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl; Jeroen De Bruyn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Much has been written about Anne Frank's life, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold - until now.As the youngest of the five Dutch people who hid the Frank family, Bep Voskuijl was Anne's closest confidante during the 761 excruciating days she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. In those cramp ...Show more
Killing Time by Jimmy Barnes
$27.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul legend in Mem ...Show more
Finding My Bella Vita: A story of family, food, fame and working out who you are by Pia Miranda
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
For years Pia Miranda has been stopped in the street by calls of, 'Found you!', forever linked to that character we all loved: Josie from Looking for Alibrandi. But playing Josie is only one small part of everything that has shaped the woman Pia has become. As a child, her Nonna would tell her stories ...Show more