Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Losing the Plot by Derek Owusu
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE - FICTION 2023'A highly enigmatic, affectionate and robustly writtenportrayal of a mother-son relationship . . . very relatable ...Show more
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer (translator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." -Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigor ...Show more
Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a book about one single break-up'Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking...told with stunning originality.' Dolly Alderton'Painful while it sloughs away the dead romantic ideals, leaving you cleansed, rebor ...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
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I had found this book earlier.' - The New York Times
Because I Love Him by Ashlee Donohue
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Because I Love Him by Ashlee Donohue is a memoir of privileged insight into strong family ties, the intricacies of relationships and the unspoken expectations within urban Aboriginal communities. This is a very personal account of love, loss, addiction, motherhood and domestic violence. Ashlee chronicle ...Show more
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters by Brigitta Olubas (Editor); Susan Wyndham (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world. Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams and made occasi ...Show more
A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs - A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope by Gulchehra Hoja
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Paperback Ser.
A powerful and urgent memoir of loss, exile and hope by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja 'This gripping memoir conveys the courage and cost of telling a truer story' Guardian Book of the Day 'Revelatory ... The particulars of her story speak for the losses of a people' Sunday Telegraph 'Essential readi ...Show more
Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home. In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. Combining pages of her diary, kept thro ...Show more
The Twat Files: A Hilarious Sort-Of Memoir of Mistakes, Mishaps and Mess-Ups by Dawn French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A hugely relatable, funny, honest and inspirational 'memoir of sorts' in which Dawn celebrates what it means to be gloriously, messily human. When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person. BUT. That kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual twa ...Show more