Woolgathering by Patti Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self - and its 'clear, unspeakable joy' - with memories both real and envisioned from her ...Show more
Words for Lucy: A story of love, loss and the celebration of life by Marion Halligan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One morning, Lucy Halligan lay on her bed with her cat and went to sleep. Soon after, her heart stopped. But her mother, writer Marion Halligan, forced hers to keep beating. More joy than sorrow, this profoundly moving memoir celebrates Lucy's life, weaving together everyday details and treasured events ...Show more
Work Strife Balance by Mia Freedman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This audiobook is for every woman who's been told success is as simple as Lean In, Say Yes, Live Your Best Life, Beat Your Fear, Follow Your Dream ... and then feel #soblessed. It's for guilty friends, bad mums, crap wives, imperfect feminists, rebellious daughters and any girl with a big mouth and at l ...Show more
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman’s right and saving gr ...Show more
Wrestling With the Devil : A Prison Memoir by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ngugi wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya's Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There, Ngugi lives in a block alongside other political prisoners, but he refuses to ...Show more
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself ...Show more
Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Diaries
Finally, Helen Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of her everyday life provide an intimate insight into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers. Ye ...Show more
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A moving and inspiring account of meditation, madness, and the Yin and Yang of life, Yoga is the new novel by one of the world's greatest and bestselling international writers.This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carr re emba ...Show more
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrere
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrère embarks on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search of clarity and material for his next book, which he thinks will be a subtle, upbeat introduction to yoga. ...Show more
You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency call-out for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career. Between the obligatory stories of objects lodged in body cavities to grown me ...Show more
You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way. Frank, funny and open-hearted, Y ...Show more
You Shouldn't Have Joined... by Peter Cosgrove
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK AC (Mil) CVO MC (Retd) is one of Australia's most significant public figures. As a soldier he saw action in Vietnam, winning the Military Cross, and rose to the very top of his profession, becoming Chief of the Defence Force. Soon after his retirement from the Army, he was ...Show more