Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland by Jim Davidson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith were giants of the world of Australian books and writing from the 1940s to 1980s 'Lilliput', in this dual biography, is the world of literary magazines in Australia between the 1940s and the 1980s. Here Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith, of the journals Me ...Show more
Harold Holt: Always One Step Further by Ross Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A revelatory biography of Harold Holt, the prime minister who helped create modern Australia Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was H ...Show more
The Go-Between - A Portrait of Growing up Between Different Worlds by Osman Yousefzada
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
An enlightening memoir of living between worlds and learning how to find one's own - from the renowned fashion designer. A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the t ...Show more
Abracadabra by Robert Dessaix
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'The first time around these pieces were not widely heard or read. A roomful of festival-goers in Sydney or Penang or Ballarat could well have heard me hold forth on the subject of Enid Blyton, say, or kissing, it’s true, and a few of my newspaper articles – my feuilletons, as I’m calling them – may hav ...Show more
Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being by Hermina Burns
$45.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Much more than a muse; Barbara Tucker was in fact a vital partner in the artistic success of her famed husband. Barbara Tucker- The Art of Being presents a multifaceted view of Tucker and the life she made with her artist husband Albert. Inspired by accounts of family, friends and admirers attending he ...Show more
Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider by Mohammad Chowdhury
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Whether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury’s life travelling the world brings daily challenges.Border Crossings takes you on a thrilling ride from the city of minarets to the heights of picture-perfect skyscrapers. A jo ...Show more
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything.' Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
A Brilliant Life : My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Rachelle Unreich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around ...Show more
Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. WINNER OF THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more