The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." --Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigo ...Show more
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first ever autobiography of John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, punk poet, rock star, fashion icon, national treasure and acerbic wit. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. At 5 feet 11 inche ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary by Anne Frank
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeym ...Show more
The House With All The Lights On: Three generations, one roof, a language of light by Jessica Kirkness
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'If I were to tell you our story in sign language—the story of my grandparents and me—I'd begin with a single finger touching my chest.' Jessica Kirkness has traversed the boundary between deaf and hearing cultures all her life. Her memoir tells the story of her grandparents who grew up deaf in a he ...Show more
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A memoir by Grace Tame
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"NOW IN PAPERBACK The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner is Grace's story, in Grace's words, on Grace's terms. Here she returns, again and again, to the things that have driven and saved her: love, connection and radical, unwavering honesty. Like Grace, this book is sharply intelligent, deeply felt, wildly u ...Show more
Somewhere in the Middle - The Stories I Need to Tell by Geoffrey D'Ombrain
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography
So many stories have come down to me about my remarkable family going right back to escaping from France in an open boat in 1572. There was a great-grandfather who was City Surveyor of the Melbourne Corporation and a remarkable hero, Sir James D'Ombrain, who refused to follow Westminster orders and deli ...Show more
Clear Is the Water - My Grandfather Was Born in Dublin by Geoffrey D'Ombrain
$15.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This book began as an account written during my long journey in 2011 around Ireland with a visit to Berlin. Later, stories from my two previous journeys, 2009 and 2010 were added, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany and England. The book tells of extraordinary meetings with people, unbelievable coincidences a ...Show more