Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The memoir from Australia's much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, Nanette, played to sold-out houses in Australia, the UK and the US. Its launch on Netflix, and subsequent Emmy and Peabody wins, took Nanette (and Hannah) to the world.
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz FTI by Heather Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
This internationally bestselling novel is now a six-part drama series streaming on Stan in 2024, starring Harvey Keitel. The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport of me ...Show more
Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia's first MasterChef by Julie Goodwin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The extraordinary life story of Australia's beloved Julie Goodwin, first winner of MasterChef and bestselling cookbook author Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In many ways her win was unlikely. As a child Julie adored music and art, but her ...Show more
Impossible: My Story - Stan Walker by Stan Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
How do you write a memoir when you have lost your memories? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues. I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did ...Show more
The Newsman: 60 Years of Television by Mal Walden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'You'll never be a journalist's bootlace!' During his cadetship in the early '60s, Mal Walden heard these words frequently from his news editor and media mentor, John Maher. Walden not only proved his mentor wrong, he went on to become the longest-serving newsman on Australian television. From a caree ...Show more
A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
With insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and inc ...Show more
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution by Peter Bradley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
‘Haunting.’ Jonathan Freedland ‘Powerful.’ Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported ...Show more
Macquarie by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming a harsh, foreboding penal colony into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society.He also helped shape Australia's national character. An egalitarian at heart, Macquarie saw boundless potential in Britain's r ...Show more
An Unsentimental Bloke: The life and work of C.J. Dennis by Philip Butterss
$34.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The Sentimental Bloke and Doreen are famous characters in Australian popular culture, but their creator deserves to be better known. C.J. Dennis transformed the larrikin from a street thug into a respectable image of Australian identity, and helped shape the Anzac legend. Many people regarded Dennis him ...Show more