This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
If you feel that sense that there is something missing from your life, some gap between who you are on the inside and who you are on the outside - then this is the book for you. This is, as the title says, not actually a book about Benedict Cumberbatch. In fact, it's a book about women and what we love ...Show more
A Caring Life: What fifty years in nursing has taught me about humanity, compassion and community by Keith Cox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As a nurse for nearly fifty years, Keith Cox provided expert care and comfort to countless people facing the unimaginable. With insight and sensitivity, A Caring Life takes us behind the scenes of his remarkable nursing career and the moving stories of hope, determination and loss that underpinned it. A ...Show more
Hugh Jackman: The Biography by Anthony Bunko
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Hugh Jackman is a true Hollywood juggernaut. The magnetic Australian has joined countrymen Mel Gibson and Russell Crowe as an international superstar thanks to his role as Wolverine in the X-Men series, and is loved by fans worldwide thanks to his extremely varied career in film and theatre. When a youn ...Show more
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows - A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as 'the most important artist work ...Show more
Release the Beast: A Drag Queen's Guide to Life by Bimini Bon Boulash
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A hilarious and inspiring guide to transforming your life through drag, from the UK's favourite drag queen and star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Bimini Bon Boulash. Bimini Bon Boulash is the nation's sweetheart, capturing hearts and minds as the gag-inducing, death-dropping, plant-based breakout star of Ru ...Show more
Baggage: Tales from a fully packed life by Alan Cumming
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
'No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritise it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something - an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person - you have merely deci ...Show more
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman by Alice Kessler-Harris
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary M ...Show more
Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women's Stories Throughout History by Katerina Bryant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Katerina Bryant suddenly began experiencing chronic seizures, she was plunged into a foreign world of doctors and psychiatrists, who understood her condition as little as she did. Reacting the only way she knew how, she immersed herself in books, reading her way through her own complicated diagnosi ...Show more
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood by Christa Parravani
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice. For readers of Educated, Hillbilly Elegy and Three Women.
Roger Federer - The Biography by René Stauffer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
René Stauffer has been closely covering Roger Federer's career for nearly 25 years. In this comprehensive biography, Stauffer talks at length to the man himself, his family, friends, coaches and rivals to paint an unrivalled picture of the greatest male tennis player of all time.From his early life in B ...Show more
Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss
$34.95 AUD
Category: 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