Dear Oliver by Susan R. Barry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Dear Dr. Sacks . . . You asked me if I could imagine what the world would look like when viewed with two eyes. I told you that I thought I could . . . But, I was wrong." At once intimate and inspiring, in this book Susan Barry shares the heartfelt letters through which she and Oliver Sacks became dear ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
We Are the Luckiest - The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life by Laura McKowen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"We Are the Luckiest is a masterpiece. It's the truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I've read. It's going to save lives." -- Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior: A Memoir What could possibly be "lucky" about addiction? Absolutely nothing, thought ...Show more
Step By Step: The perfect gift for the adventurer in your life by Simon Reeve
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Sunday Times Bestseller 'My goodness, it is brilliant. Searingly honest, warm, bursting with humanity. Such brave and inspiring writing.' Kate Humble * * * * * * * * * In TV adventurer Simon Reeve's bestselling memoir he describes how he has journeyed across epic landscapes, dodged bullets on ...Show more
Captain Pat: Cometh the Hour, Cummins the Man by Ron Reed
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first book to focus on Australian international cricketer and Captain of the Australian Test team Pat Cummins. From his early life to his arrival as a Test cricketer, his frustrations with injury, and his arrival as the 47th Australian Test Captain. No captain of the Australian Test cricket team—a ...Show more
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Alba Donati's Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop is not only a work of significant beauty, it's inspiring. It's inspiring about the continuing life of books, and about the ways in which our lives can change and our dreams can come true, if only we insist on believing in changes and dreams'Michael Cunningham, a ...Show more
The Twat Files: A Hilarious Sort-Of Memoir of Mistakes, Mishaps and Mess-Ups by Dawn French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A hugely relatable, funny, honest and inspirational 'memoir of sorts' in which Dawn celebrates what it means to be gloriously, messily human. When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person. BUT. That kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual twa ...Show more
King Charles III: Our King: The Man and the Monarch by Robert Jobson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive biography of King Charles III The definitive biography of King Charles with exclusive material and insight from a source close to the King himself.
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival by Françoise Malby-Anthony, Katja Willemsen
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A heart-warming sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony's wife Fran oise Malby-Anthony. A chic Parisienne, Fran oise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But then she fell in love with conservationist Lawrence Anthony and eve ...Show more
O Brother by John Niven
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
John Niven's little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. In 2010, after years of chaotic struggle against the world, he took his own life at the age of 42.Hoping for the best while often witnessing the worst, John, his younger sister Linda and their ...Show more