The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$59.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
A 50th anniversary edition of the book that brought down the Soviet Union - now with an introduction from Solzhenitsyn's widow detailing the dramatic story of its publication ' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ...Show more
Darker with the Dawn Nick Cave's Songs of Love and Death by Adam Steiner
$49.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
From his early work with The Birthday Party to the future sounds of Ghosteen, Nick Cave has rewritten the language of rock 'n' roll. Darker with the Dawn uncovers the history and deeper meanings behind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' most well-known songs from "Tupelo", "The Mercy Seat", "Red Right Hand", ...Show more
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg
$24.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World War II In 1937, as the Nazi Party tightened its grip on the city of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), Justus Rosenberg's pa ...Show more
What Was Shakespeare Really Like? by Stanley Wells
$28.95 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world's greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are. How did he think, feel, and work? What were his relationships like? Wha ...Show more
P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters by P. G. Wodehouse
$49.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
This is the definitive edition of P.G. Wodehouse's letters, edited with a commentary by Oxford academic Sophie Ratcliffe. One of the funniest and most admired writers of the twentieth century, P.G. Wodehouse always shied away from the idea of a biography. A quiet, retiring man, he expressed himself thro ...Show more
Picasso's Lovers by Jeanne Mackin
$32.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The women of Picasso's life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of his fame - until 1950s aspiring journalist Alana Olson determines to bring one into the light. Unsure of what to expect but bent on uncovering what really lies beneath the canvas, Alana steps into Sara Murphy's well-guarded ...Show more
Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir by Hua Hsu
$36.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone 'One of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever, right up there with Patti Smith’s Just Kids’ – The Atlantic When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkele ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
'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
Hope-How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker by Niall Harbison
$32.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me.Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thailand. He spends his days feeding, caring for and rescuing the many street dogs he comes across. With every rescue there's a story. Like the sweet gentle McMuffin who was found with many tumours and hours fr ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by Dame Judi Dench
$36.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before. Internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent is a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare. 'A MAGICAL LOVE LETTER ...Show more
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor by Roger Lewis
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsom ...Show more