In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die -- from starvation, or disease, or even execution.In Order to Live is the ...Show more
In Pieces by Sally Field
$40.00 AUD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: Biography
'A memoir as soulful, wryly witty, and lyrical as it is candid and courageous' - Booklist, starred review'Impressive, candid and vivid' The Times 'Beautifully written' Sunday TimesSally Field is one of the most celebrated, beloved and enduring actors of our time, and now she tells her story for the fi ...Show more
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon by Helen Rappaport
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From New York Times bestselling author Helen Rappaport comes a superb and revealing biography of Mary Seacole that is testament to her remarkable achievements and corrective to the myths that have grown around her. Raised in Jamaica, Mary Seacole first came to England in the 1850s after working in Panam ...Show more
In Search of Mina Wylie by Grace Barnes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1912, against a backdrop of growing feminist and national movements, the Australian public united behind a fundraising campaign to send two female swimmers to Stockholm to compete, for the first time, at an Olympic Games. Coogee resident, Mina Wylie, was one of those women, and after winning silver ...Show more
In Search of Mr Darcy by Christina FORD
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A coming-of-middle-age memoir, about the search for love, friendship and the ever-elusive Mr Darcy
In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a woman possessed of uncommon strength, rare compassion, and a ferocious stubbornness to not allow the trauma of her childhood to destroy her life." - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love "Told with searing honesty, this vividly wrought memoir chronicles an almost supe ...Show more
In the Dream House - A Memoir (US Ed) by Carmen Maria Machado
$42.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological a ...Show more
In the Time of the Manaroans by MIRO BILBROUGH
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
‘A lost world of hippies and drifters breaks into gleaming life in these pages. Miro Bilbrough trains a poet’s tender, unsparing gaze on growing up female in the anything-goes 1970s. In the Time of the Manaroans lucidly portrays the visions and limits of the counter-culture, as well as all the fearful e ...Show more
In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Tom Vitale
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes listeners behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend. In the nearly two years since Anthony Bourdain's death, no one else has come clo ...Show more
Inconceivable: Heartbreak, Bad Dates and Finding Solo Motherhood by Alexandra Collier
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Alexandra Collier was a writer living in a light-filled Brooklyn brownstone in New York with the man she loved. But when she woke up to a ravenous hunger to have a baby that her partner didn't share, she had to make a choice between love or a future family. She chose family, which catapulted her life ba ...Show more
Incorrigible Optimist (HB) by Gareth Evans
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades-described by Bob Hawke as having 'the most acute mind' of any of his ministers-Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions, both as Foreign Minister and in later international roles, to conflict resolution, ge ...Show more
Inferno: A Memoir by Catherine Cho
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"My psychosis, for all its destruction and wrath, was a love story. When Catherine left London for the US with her husband James, to introduce her family to their newborn son Cato, she could not have envisaged how that trip would end. Catherine would find herself in an involuntary psych ward in New Jers ...Show more