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Turns Out, I'm Fine by JUDITH LUCY
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When the relationship Judith Lucy thought was The One broke down, her world fell apart. Not only was she single again and about to turn fifty but now that she didn't have a partner to buy gourmet sausages with at Farmers' Markets, she realised how much her relationship had enabled her to avoid dealing w ...Show more
My Year of Living Vulnerably by Rick Morton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In early 2019, Rick Morton, author of acclaimed, bestselling memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt, was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder - which, as he says, is just a fancy way of saying that one of the people who should have loved him the most during childhood didn't. So, over the cou ...Show more
Becoming (PB) by Michelle Obama
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more
Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II - 1956 - 1963 by Sylvia Plath
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. T ...Show more
Sex, Lies and Question Time: The successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament by Kate Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. 'When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating.' As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood by Christa Parravani
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice. For readers of Educated, Hillbilly Elegy and Three Women.
Old Seems to Be Other People by Lily Brett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gentl ...Show more
Car Crash: A Memoir by Lech Blaine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party. They never arrived. The driver - who was not drunk or high - made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew ...Show more
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into being 'Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refu ...Show more
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her bab ...Show more
Becoming Beauvoir - A Life by Kate Kirkpatrick
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one", Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about ...Show more