Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir by Margaux Fragoso
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time. At two in the afternoon, when he would come and pick me up and take me for rides; at five, when I would read to him, head on his chest; in the despair at seven p.m., when he would hold me and rub my belly for an hour; in the des ...Show more
An Angel At My Table (Janet Frame Autobiography Omnibus) by Janet Frame
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals (essentially for wanting to pursue a caree ...Show more
My Friend Leonard by James Frey
$34.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Written in the hallmark visceral style of A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard is a mesmerising insight into a friendship formed in the most unlikely of circumstances.When James Frey first meets Leonard in the rehabilitation centre so powerfully described in A Million Little Pieces they are both r ...Show more
Marley and Me by John Grogan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow fur ball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barrelling, 44-kilo steamroller of a ...Show more
Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley
$36.38 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'If you've ever wept, "Why Do I Want To Run?" your answer is here.' Caitlin MoranAlexandra Heminsley had high hopes- the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga, she decided to run.Her first attempt did not end well.Six years later, she h ...Show more
Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography by P. D. James
$22.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks bac ...Show more
Searching for Women who Drink Whisky: Life and Love in India by Miranda Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
When journalist Miranda Kennedy arrives in New Delhi she discovers that renting an apartment as a single woman is next to impossible and finds herself cheerfully labelled as 'the unmarried Feringhee (foreigner) with the cats'. And so begins her struggle to find a place for herself in the New India
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one Spanish phrase, he decided to see Spain. For a year he tramped through a country in which the signs of i ...Show more