Other Lives But Mine by Emmanuel Carrère
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary'Compelling... Carr re has the gift of speaking simply and directly of the essentials' Evening StandardBeset by arguments and the fear that things between them may be ...Show more
Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire in Manhattan, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans, and now, in the chaos after the fall of commu ...Show more
Phosphorescence: The inspiring bestseller and multi award-winning book from the author of Bright Shining by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett ...Show more
Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent; Jukuna Mona Chuguna; Pat Lowe; Eirlys Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Voices
Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stations. T ...Show more
Sempre Susan - A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the author of the novel The Friend, a poignant, intimate memoir of one of America's most esteemed and fascinating cultural figures, and a deeply felt tribute. Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, blinding ...Show more
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
$24.99 AUD
$39.99 (37% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. "People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The 'I' it ...Show more
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
From one of America's greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. 'Blue Nights' is a shatter ...Show more
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
The White Album by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own "bad dreams" with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of ...Show more
Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-cha ...Show more
Happening by Annie Ernaux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. I ...Show more
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2 by Deborah Levy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Longlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction From the twice-Booker-shortlisted author comes a witty and audacious examination of writing and womanhood "Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it toge ...Show more