big beautiful female theory (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Eloise Grills
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
big beautiful female theory is an anarchic and vital memoir unlike anything you've read before. Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, it is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society's expectations. With breathtaking honesty an ...Show more
Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION'S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLYBeing a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met the weirdest and most wonderful people who walk the Earth, seen the most bizarre and the most fantastic sig ...Show more
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Ann Woodward shot her husband, banking heir Billy Woodward, in the middle of the night in 1955, her life changed forever. Though she claimed she thought he was a prowler, few believed the woman who had risen from charismatic showgirl to popular socialite. Everyone had something to say about the sc ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir by Sam Neill
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The trilogy that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy. Just ...Show more
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first ever autobiography of John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, punk poet, rock star, fashion icon, national treasure and acerbic wit. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. At 5 feet 11 inche ...Show more
Jim's Book: The Surprising Story of Jim Penman - Australia's Backyard Millionaire by Catherine Moolenschot
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the authorised biography of Jim Penman, the founder of Jim's Mowing, now the Jim's Group. The Jim's brand is known by most Australians, yet the founder is hardly known. In 1982 Jim Penman turned a one-man mowing business into an empire of 3786 franchisees across 50 divisions from antennas to win ...Show more
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the words of its president. It is the story of a people valiantly defending themselves from Russian aggression. And it is ...Show more
Man’s Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust (With New Material) (HB) by Viktor E Frankl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. To the horrified astonishment of a team of hunters, it emerges that the attacks are not random: the tiger is engaged in a vendetta. Injured and starving, it must be found before it strikes again, ...Show more
Amphibious Soul: Finding the wild in a tame world by Craig Foster
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster Amphibious Soul is the long-awaited book from naturalist, adventurer, and scientific explorer Craig Foster. This is a raw and personal memoir (told here for the f ...Show more