A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$34.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Active Labour: Memoirs of a Working-Class Doctor by Percy Rogers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
Percy Rogers was no ordinary doctor. Raised in small Western Australian towns, at fifteen he saved enough to buy a train ticket to Perth, where night school was free, with a hope to study medicine. From there he embarked on a medical career that would take him around Australia and the world, from Hobart ...Show more
Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic. At one point Cullen shot Jensen, in part to see how committed he was to the book. ...Show more
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis ...Show more
All My Januaries
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns with a new identity, a lo ...Show more
Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Anita Heiss, successful author and passionate campaigner for Aboriginal literacy, was born a member of the Wiradjuri nati ...Show more
Anatomy of a Secret: One Man's Search for Justice by Gerard McCann
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
This courageous memoir about the personal toll of seeking justice from the Catholic Church is one of hope, healing and persistence. Raw and compelling, Anatomy of a Secret bravely shares longsilenced, unspoken truths. As a boy, Gerard was sexually abused by a Catholic priest at his local church. As a gr ...Show more
Archie Roach - Tell Me Why - The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who he r ...Show more
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art Biography
A new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur. Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, she rejected marriage - and she wore trou ...Show more
Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art Biography
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived ...Show more
As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body by Kaya Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
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
Australia's Sweetheart: The Life and Times of Mary Maguire, Our Forgotten Hollywood Star by Michael Adams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
This is the fascinating story of Mary Maguire, a 1930s Australian ingenue who sailed for Hollywood and a fabulous life, only to have her career cut short by scandal and tragedy. Packed with celebrity, history and gossip, AUSTRALIA'S SWEETHEART is perfect for readers of SHEILA and THE RIVIERA SET. Mary M ...Show more