Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Perfect for fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed. Stephanie Land delves into the tenacity and anxiety of living – nay, surviving on poverty-level wages and intolerable working conditions. Amidst exhausting mental and physical efforts, the proverbial bootstraps bind ...Show more
An Unlikely Prisoner: How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar’s Most Notorious Jail by Sean Turnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
How hope became one man's closest companion in his darkest hour. 'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar's terrifying Insei ...Show more
Home to Biloela: The Story of the Tamil Family that Captured Our Hearts by Priya Nadesalingam, Rebekah Holt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The dramatic inside story of the Tamil refugee family which became a cause clbre all around Australia, and the epic fight by a small rural community to set them free. It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumping on the front door signalled the start of a four-year odyssey that would ca ...Show more
Saving Bunji: The Story of a Girl, a Rescued Kangaroo Joey and the Passion That Led Her to Fight for Change by Brinkley Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A stunningly photographed memoir for anyone with even a passing interest in the fate of our wildlife and environment. Written by eco-warrior Brinkley Davies (230k+ on Instagram, 20k+ Youtube), Founder of the Balu Blue Foundation, Saving Bunji will be beloved by fans of Penguin Bloom and the activism of ...Show more
Jali by Oliver Twist
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Twist is a star.' The Sydney Morning HeraldComedian Oliver Twist was four years old when he and his family fled the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda for Malawi, their exile for the next fourteen years. Twist has turned the turmoil he and his family endured into a thrilling adventure of a hero's journey. ...Show more
Hanging By a Thread: What would it take to walk away from your dream life in Monaco and a global, multi-million-dollar business? by Erin Deering
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The stratospheric rise of Australian swimwear label Triangl was one wild ride, with retail whiz Erin Deering at its helm. This is the story of building a business from scratch, selling one bikini a day to making over US $200,000 in the same 24 hours, and the devastating toll it took upon its Co-Founder ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY'Full of tenderness and beauty. This book is a revelation and a rest ...Show more
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From one of South Africa’s foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela’s relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and ground-breaking u ...Show more
Two Mums and a Dad by TOBY ROBERTS
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties made them stick out, then a mum with a procession of live-in lovers had the neighbours wondering if this mob had mista ...Show more
House of Glass - The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family by Hadley Freeman
$22.00 AUD
Category: Biography
I stood up to shut the closet door and that's when I spotted the shoebox right at the back, behind a pile of leather handbags ... surely I thought it would contain another pair of slightly battered kitten heel sandals. So I sat on the floor, pulled it out and opened it. I did not find shoes. Instead it ...Show more
If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed by Margaret Tucker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a landmark publication. In that first edition, her tone and draft content were significantly al ...Show more