Autumn ( Season's Quartet #1) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Vanessa Baird (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
The Sunday TimesTop Ten BestsellerThe New York TimesBestsellerFrom the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four season ...Show more
The Making of a Chef by Luke Mangan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Making of a Chef takes us through the highs and lows of Luke's career and gives us insight into the life of a working chef, beyond the glamour and glitz and into the making of today's celebrity - the chef.
Winter: (Seasons Quartet 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Lars Lerin (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world loo ...Show more
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness'It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of T ...Show more
Calypso by David Sedaris
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Category: Biography
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. ...Show more
The Princess Diarist - A Sort of Memoir by Carrie Fisher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's New York Times bestselling intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the film ...Show more
An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame
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Category: Biography
With a heartfelt introduction from Jane Campion. Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections. Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor ...Show more
Eleanor Roosevelt: In Her Words: On Women, Politics, Leadership, and Lessons from Life by Nancy Woloch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Eleanor Roosevelt is considered by many to be the most fascinating, accomplished, and admired woman in American history. While she is best known as a politician, diplomat, humanitarian, UN delegate, activist, feminist, and First Lady she was also a prolific reporter and writer who changed the role of wo ...Show more
Going Back: How a Former Refugee and now an Internationally Acclaimed Surgeon Returned to Iraq by Munjed Al Muderis; Patrick Weaver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Munjed's new book is once more a journey, but this time takes him across the world on a quest to save others rather than himself. In Munjed Al Muderis's bestselling memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq, his terrifying sea journey to Australia and th ...Show more
My Dead Parents - A Memoir by Anya Yurchyshyn
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anya Yurchyshyn grew up in a narrow townhouse in Boston, every corner filled with the souvenirs of her parents' adventurous international travels. On their trips to Africa, Italy, and Saudi Arabia, her mother, Anita, and her father, George, lived an entirely separate life from the one they led as the pa ...Show more
North of Normal: My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family and How I Survived both by Cea Sunrise Person
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The true story of one girl's escape from the wilds of the counterculture movement . . . In the late 1960s, Cea Sunrise Person's family left a comfortable existence in California to live off the grid in Canada's idyllic wilderness. Led by Cea's eccentric grandfather, they called a canvas teepee home, gre ...Show more
Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to have to flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a ...Show more