Blue Nights by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
From one of America's greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. 'Blue Nights' is a shatter ...Show more
Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke cooperated with after exiting the prime ministership. This unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him - the last that he gave - as well as unfiltered access to his ex ...Show more
Bohemian Negligence by Bertie Blackman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The celebrated musician's evocative and intimate memoir of the magic and vulnerability of her bohemian childhood growing up as the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman. If you could touch your memories, how would they feel? My first memory of life is blurry. A blurry red dot. A strawberry in a thi ...Show more
Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury by Lesley-Ann Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
'Exactly the sort of tribute Mercury himself would have wanted'SPECTATOR This is the definitive biography of Freddie Mercury. Written by an award-winning rock journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones toured widely with Queen forming lasting friendships with the band. Now, having secured access to the remaining ban ...Show more
Bon: the Last Highway - The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black by Jesse Fink
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The legend of the man known around the world simply as 'Bon? only grows with each passing year - in death the AC/DC icon has become a god to millions of people - but how much of his story is myth and how much of the real man do we know?There have been books that claim to tell his story. They haven?t eve ...Show more
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Travelling Through the Land of My Ancestors by Louise Erdrich
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
For more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has won prizes, critical acclaim, and the hearts of readers the world over with her spellbinding novels of Native American life.
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Twenty-five years after she left, Kassabova returns to Bulgaria to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece in an immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and ex ...Show more
Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds by Huma Abedin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
In this beautifully written and propulsive memoir, Huma Abedin—Hillary Clinton’s famously private top aide and longtime adviser—emerges from the wings of American political history to take command of her own story. The daughter of Indian and Pakistani intellectuals and advo ...Show more
Bourdain: In Stories by Laurie Woolever
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has ...Show more
Boy Friends by Michael Pedersen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents.'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.' STEPHEN FRY'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.' JACKIE KAY'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refres ...Show more
Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir by Kristina Olsson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
An unforgettable story of the legacy of grief and guilt across generations, and the power of memory and faith.Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms as she boarded a train in the hot summer of 1950. Young and frightened and trying to escape a brutal marri ...Show more
Boy on Fire - The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is the ...Show more