Walking Towards Ourselves: Indian Women Tell Their Stories by Catriona Mitchell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Walking Towards Ourselves gets behind the headlines and finds out what it means to be an Indian woman today. Walk in the shoes of some of India's foremost women writers and thinkers, and go on a journey into their intimate lives, to places you haven't been. From the film sets of Bollywood to a closeted ...Show more
Will Dyson: Australia's Radical Genius by Ross McMullin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Dyson was also a talented writer, a scintillating humourist and an arresting speaker. A stunning overnight success, he was described as the most famous Australian in the world. In 1916 Dyson became Australia's first official war artist. His drawings of profound empathy and sympathy remain a unique recor ...Show more
Will You Love Me? The Story of My Adopted Daughter Lucy by Cathy Glass
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. This book tells the true story of Cathy's adopted daughter Lucy. Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood. Right from the beginning Lucy' ...Show more
The Bootle Boy - An Untidy Life in News by Les Hinton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Les Hinton first fulfils his schoolboy dream of working on Fleet Street, it is still a place awash in warm beer, black ink, fag ash, and hot metal. Fifty-two years after being sent out to buy a sandwich for his first boss, one Rupert Murdoch, when Les finally leaves Murdoch's employment in 2011, th ...Show more
The Woman Who Says No: Franoise Gilot on Her Life with and Without Picasso by Malte Herwig
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An intimate, revealing biography of a talented artist who lived life on her own terms. Pablo Picasso called Fran oise Gilot "The Woman Who Says No." Talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in her own right, Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense a ...Show more
Handbag of Happiness: And Other Misunderstandings, Mistakes and Misadventures by Alannah Hill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Part agony aunt, part moral philosopher and irrepressibly curious, Alannah Hill shares her unique take on how to fathom life's ticking timebombs of adversity with her inimitable blend of gothic hilarity and old-fashioned wisdom. Hilarious, often outlandish and always insightful, The Handbag of Happiness ...Show more
Gather Together In My Name by Maya Angelou
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the sequel to her best- ...Show more
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An inspiring tale of modern migration, overcoming adversity and escaping the hell of war, from a girl struggling to walk for the very first time in her life. Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy. This did not stop her travelling, with her sister, 4000 miles from Syria to Hungary in a wheelchair. Having ta ...Show more
Only: A Singular Memoir by Caroline Baum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far between. Mostly, there was only me...Only is a painfully honest and entertaining story of an unconventional c ...Show more
A Secret Sisterhood The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf by Emma Claire Sweeney; Emily Midorikawa; Margaret Atwood (Foreword by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'In digging up the forgotten friendships chronicled in A Secret Sisterhood, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have done much service to literary history.'Margaret Atwood 'A Secret Sisterhood will help make women's literary friendships of the past relevant to the present.'Mich#65533;le Roberts 'A ...Show more
Woolloomooloo by Louis Nowra
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It was no wonder I was glad to be down in Woolloomooloo. The Old Fitzroy reminded me of how Kings Cross used to be. Told in his vivid and entertaining style, Louis Nowra writes Woolloomooloo’s biography, drink in hand, from the vantage point of the Old Fitzroy Hotel, the cosy, eccentric and wonderful p ...Show more
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Living in our valley was like broad beans in a pod, so snug and enclosed and protective.'Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was nineteen, but it remained with him throughout his life, until, many years later, he returned for good.In this never before published collection, Lauri ...Show more