The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A New York Times bestseller From Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden's pick for his 2020 running mate, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across ...Show more
All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot: Self Image, Beauty Ideals and Desirability by Lucinda Froomes Price
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Beloved comedian, podcaster and commentator Price's debut book explores obsession and self-image, and how while striving to be hot feels natural, particularly in our culture, it is dangerous, homogenous, and informed by patriarchy. Anchored in her own personal experience, All I Ever Wanted Is to Be Hot ...Show more
Fallen: George Mallory: The Man, The Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy by Mick Conefrey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On 6 June, 1924 George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Two days later they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards, but after that they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down no one knows.In ...Show more
Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape by Seana Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis by J. D. Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Am ...Show more
Profiles in Hope: Fifteen Australians tell their stories of surviving suicide and finding the way back to a better life by John Brogden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sixteen Australians tell their stories of surviving suicide and finding the way back to a better life.Every day, nine Australians take their own lives. Eighteen years ago, John Brogden came very close to adding his name to these statistics. But John survived and, since his recovery, he has become a pass ...Show more
Strange Little Girl by Jessica Knight
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
My father tells it because he made it up. A little bedtime story of my origin. They are not really my parents, the people who I call Mum and Dad. Those are not my siblings, the kids who I know as my brother and sisters. I am not really human. I am an alien from another planet in a far distant constella ...Show more
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (HB) by Markus Zusak
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, ...Show more
For Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying – and Flying by Ailsa Piper
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Category: Biography
An unforgettable and moving insight into loss, hope and starting again, aided by the incredible healing power of nature and a community of unexpected angels, for fans of Phosphoresence by Julia Baird. After I swim, I watch an osprey hanging in mid-air. It looks like pure pleasure, suspended, its wings ...Show more
Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love by Trent Dalton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Trent Dalton goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a travelling priest. A wi ...Show more
Mothering Heights: A year of joy and survival in the trenches of early parenthood by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A comedy, tragedy and farcical romp all rolled into one, Mothering Heights is a year-in-the-life love story about becoming a mother from the hilarious author of Pardon My French, Rachael Mogan McIntosh. For fans of ABC TV's The Letdown, Nina Stibbe's Love, Nina and Alison Pearson's I Don't Know How She ...Show more
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system