Banjo by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The remarkable life of Australia's greatest storyteller A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson is rightly recognised as Australia's greatest storyteller and most celebrated poet, the boy from the bush who became the voice of a generation. He gave the nation its unofficial national anthem 'Waltzing Matilda' and treas ...Show more
Appointment in Arezzo - A Friendship with Muriel Spark by Alan Taylor
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscreet and admiring memoir charts the course of Muriel Spark's life revealing her as she really was. Once, she commented sitting over a glass of chianti at the k ...Show more
Lady in Waiting - My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Princess Margaret | Reading Level: very good
The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation - and is a character in THE CROWN this spring. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful wit and ex ...Show more
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another's will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ern ...Show more
About a Girl: A Mother's Powerful Story of Raising her Transgender Child by Rebekah Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Transgender | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 2000, Rebekah Robertson gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by the age of three it was clear Georgie was drawn to anything that was pretty or had a skirt that could swirl. Before long Georgie began to insist that she was a girl and b ...Show more
A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of ...Show more
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A revelatory work in the tradition of Claudia Rankine's Citizen, DaMaris Hill's searing and powerful narrative-in-verse bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration. "It is costly to stay free and appear sane." From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland an ...Show more
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
$11.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Stella Prize 2019 Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon. Telling the story of a splintered family, a mother who is unlike any other, and her daughters who have no choice but to come to the rescue, The Erratics has the tightly compressed energy of an explosive device. ...Show more
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
Melbourne Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: 5.5 Travel
Remember dropping into the Coles Cafeteria on Bourke Street for a feast of rashers, sausages and mash, with gravy, from the bain marie? Or catching a 'red rattler' into the city? Eating a hot jam doughnut from the American Doughnut Kitchen van at the Queen Vic markets? If you answered yes to any of thes ...Show more
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life by Mason Ball
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first biography of iconic cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the side-splitting ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the wor ...Show more
Tell Her She's Dreamin': A memoir for ambitious girls by Simone Amelia Jordan
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more. Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a sch ...Show more