You Have Not yet Been Defeated by Alaa Abd el-Fattah; Naomi Klein (Foreword by); Omar Robert Hamilton (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 39, is arguably the most high profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world. A leading figure among the young technologists and bloggers of the 2000s he rose to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and ...Show more
Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life by Kristine Philipp
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office chick, shit-kicker, donkey worker, general dogsbody or gofer (go for this, go for that). Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life is the hilarious ...Show more
Some of Us Just Fall - A Body Chronicle by Polly Atkin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'It raises the standard of nature writing. This is both radical manifesto and activism in book form'Sally Huband, author of Sea Bean'Defiant and dazzling'Freya Bromley, author of The Tidal Year'Essential reading'Jessica J. Lee, author of Turning'Long before I knew I was sick, I knew I was breakable . . ...Show more
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything.' Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law ...Show more
Charles Baudelaire - A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism by Walter Benjamin; Harry Zohn (Translator)
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Category: Biography and Memoir
A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and work Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet it was thr ...Show more
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I - A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
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Category: Biography and Memoir
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author an ...Show more
Directions to Myself by Heidi Julavits
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this honest and provocative book Heidi Julavits examines gender, power and sexuality, engaging with a debate which has never been more relevant than it is today. How can a mother know her son will not grow up to be a rapist? How can a mother know her son will not be falsely accused of being a rapist ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
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Category: Biography and Memoir
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
The Many Lives of Barry Humphries (PB): A Treasury of Reminisces by Rowan Dean
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Actor, comedian, raconteur, writer, poet, painter, songwriter, music lover and one of the most gifted artists of the last century, Barry Humphries was an Australian global superstar. In this affectionate tribute, Rowan Dean, one of the last people to spend time alone with his friend Barry, reminisces th ...Show more
My Grandfather's Clock: Four Centuries of a British-Australian Family by Graeme Davison
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Category: Biography and Memoir
British Australia- a search for family. A great-aunt's bequest - a 200-year-old grandfather clock - sends historian Graeme Davison on a journey deep into his father's family's past. From their tribal homeland in the Scottish Borders he follows them to the garrison town of Carlisle, from industrial Bir ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir by Hua Hsu
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone 'One of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever, right up there with Patti Smith’s Just Kids’ – The Atlantic When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkele ...Show more