The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
$24.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world. Angela Merkel ...Show more
Solito by Javier Zamora
$24.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Solito is my travel book of the year.' Telegraph'Heartbreaking... A rare, eye-opening rendition of the brutal reality of border-crossing.' Lea Ypi'If there's any justice, Solito will someday be considered a classic.' Rumaan Alam Young Javier dreams of eating orange sherbe ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$32.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman
$49.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
ALAN RICKMAN was one of the world-class actors of his generation, as well as a tireless political activist, an avid traveller and a devoted confidant and friend. Through his never-before-seen diaries - a twenty-five-year passion project - Rickman invites readers backstage and into his life. Introduced b ...Show more
The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
'There is no jail that can imprison the free word, nor is there a siege tight enough that can prevent the spread of information.' - Mazen Darwish, Syrian human rights activist, in a speech given on April 23, 2016, following his release from jail in 2015. In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus w ...Show more
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. ...Show more
Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis; Lorin Stein (Translator) (Edouard)
$29.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar Édouard Louis is both a searing j'accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father. Who Killed My Father rips into France's long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the p ...Show more
Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story by Sophie Elmhirst
$42.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
'One of those very special books that makes you put everything on hold so you can get back to it' RACHEL JOYCE'Beautiful, moving and genuinely unputdownable' JOANNA CANNON'Easily one of the most captivating works of narrative nonfiction I've ever read' OLIVER BURKEMANWhat begins as an eccentric English ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells by Jenny Joseph
$22.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The unusual, remarkable memoir of a treasured British poet: Jenny Joseph, author of Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, presents a year in her garden - twelve months of musings, wisdom and scents
The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad
$60.00 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Nirvana, updated with exclusive new content exploring the personal and cultural forces that inspired the music, the author's friendship with Kurt Cobain and why multiple generations remain fascinated by the ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir by Sam Neill
$36.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
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