Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller, Tracks, the story of a mother and daughter, of love, loss and the pursuit of freedom. In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea ...Show more
Unmasked: A Memoir (Andrew Lloyd Webber) by Andrew Lloyd Webber
12.99 AUD
32.95 (60% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre." One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd W ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
20.99 AUD
21.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Unreliable Memoirs
'I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment, that did not affect me.' In the first instalment of Clive James's memoirs, we meet the young Clive, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various relatives a ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the ne ...Show more
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
A Paper Inheritance by Dymphna Stella Rees
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
When Dymphna Stella Rees - named after family friends Dymphna Cusack and Stella Miles Franklin - finds bundles of love letters buried in her parents' archive, she is intrigued by the discovery.Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees were a power couple of the Australian literary scene in the mid-twentieth c ...Show more
A Song Flung Up to Heaven (#6) by Maya Angelou
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Gu ...Show more
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes (#5) by Maya Angelou
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, are a testament to the talents and resilien ...Show more
Angela's Ashes: A memoir of childhood by Frank McCourt
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father ...Show more
As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body by Kaya Wilson
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame. As Beautiful As Any Other weaves this legacy together with intimate examinations of ...Show more
Backstory by Avani Gregg
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this funny, vulnerable, and all-too-real memoir, award-winning content creator and actress Avani Gregg takes you behind the scenes of her incredible life, sharing how a girl from small-town Indiana went on to become TikToker of the Year.With more than 55 million followers on social media; invitations ...Show more