Honey, Baby, Mine - A mother and daughter talk life, death love (and banana pudding) by Laura Dern, Diane Ladd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
*WITH A FOREWORD FROM REESE WITHERSPOON* A collection of deeply personal conversations from award-winning actress and activist Laura Dern and the woman she admires most, her mother-legendary actress Diane Ladd. What happens when we are brave enough to speak our truths to the ones we love the most? Laura ...Show more
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between t ...Show more
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution by John Eidinow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The thousands of academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?This is the story of Esther Simpson, a remarkable woman history has largely forgotten, but whose selfless actions left an indelible mark on the cultural and intellectual ...Show more
Theroux The Keyhole: When the World Went Weird and so Did I by Louis Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Come round to Louis Theroux's house, where the much-loved documentary-maker finds himself in unexpected danger . . .Louis's latest TV series about weirdness - the one involving the American far right, home-grown jihadis, and SoundCloud rappers - has been unexpectedly derailed by the onset of a global pa ...Show more
Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: From This Broken Hill, Volume 2 by Michael Posner
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories Ser.
The second volume of the extraordinary life of the great music and literary icon Leonard Cohen, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon--there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, ent ...Show more
Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Today, I’m starting a ‘rent a person who does nothing‘ service . . . Except for very simple conversation, I’m afraid I can do nothing. Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a ‘do-nothing’ because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good a ...Show more
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: The Genius, Secrecy and Disappearance of Louis Le Prince (HB) by Paul Fischer
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world's first motion picture in Leeds, England.In 1890, weeks before the public unveiling of his camera and projector - a year before Thomas Edison announced that the had invented a motion picture camera - Le Prince stepped on a train in France - and disappeared without ...Show more
The Palace Papers: The Sunday Times bestseller by Tina Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana … and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful rev ...Show more
Marching Powder by Rusty Young
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that i ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful by Paulina Porizkova
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart.Born in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Paulina Porizkova rose to prominence as a model ...Show more
My Mother - Myself - Glimpses into the Complicated Mother-Daughter Relationship by Bobbie Spivey; Billie Ruth Furuichi; Edy Henderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this collection of engaging short stories, 16 previously-published women authors reflect on heart-warming and heart-wrenching aspects of their relationship with their mothers. The editors, all published writers and experienced speakers, have shared "mother stories" with each other over a period of m ...Show more