Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
What does the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies and deception do to a black body, a black family and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse' In Heavy, Laymon writes about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his earl ...Show more
Helena Rubinstein: the Adventure of Beauty by Michèle Fitoussi; Helena Rubinstein; Paul Salmona; Danielle Spera; Mason Klein
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Helena Rubinstein's remarkable life--from the inception of her beauty empire to the legacy she left behind--is celebrated in this comprehensive book that retraces her inspiring story. Helena Rubinstein was the first to establish the link between beauty and science, at a time when makeup was worn only by ...Show more
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell's Angels could paralyse ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon The Diaries Vol 1 by Channon, Chips
$75.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43 by Chips Channon
$75.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon. This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the Prime Minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general Eu ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 by Chips Channon
$75.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and ...Show more
Her Father's Daughter by Alice Pung
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads: the love and worry of her parents, who want more than anything to keep her from h ...Show more
Her Mother's Daughter - A Memoir by Nadia Wheatley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
"Why didn't you and Daddy want people to give you any wedding presents?" I used to ask. But my mother could never be drawn into talking about the wedding. Later, I assumed it was because she did not wish to be reminded of the ghastly mistake she had made in marrying my father. Born in Australia in 1949 ...Show more
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
$55.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
Here and Now by Paul Auster, J M Coetzee
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Here and Now is a collection of letters between Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, two of the greatest writers of our time. Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a ...Show more
Higher Sobriety: My Years Without Booze by Jill Stark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
What happened next? It's the question Jill Stark has been asked most often since the publication of her acclaimed memoir, High Sobriety.As one of the original pioneers in the 'quit lit' space, Jill started a national conversation about the role of alcohol in our lives, turning the lens on her own rocky ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & 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 Ame ...Show more