William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$25.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist.William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cele ...Show more
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life i ...Show more
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands by Annie Worsley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose-painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'I have read pages and pages of this wonderful book, swept away by its beauty and understanding, its chromatic brilliance' ADAM NICOLSON A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a bus ...Show more
Winging It by Emma Isaacs
$8.75 AUD
$34.99 (74% off)
Category: Memoir & Biography
I'm about to welcome you into my world. Show you what works for me and share openly what hasn't. I hope that what you find in the pages of this book inspires you to dream up new ways to be kind to people and to think about how the game you're currently playing might be worthy of a bigger court. I hope i ...Show more
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
$37.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
From one of South Africa’s foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela’s relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and ground-breaking u ...Show more
Winter - (Seasons Quartet 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Lars Lerin (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to Knausgaard's unborn daughterIn Winter,we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter draws near. In preparation for her arrival, he takes ...Show more
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs by Sandra Hogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s. Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told' - Susan Johnson'It reads like the very best of spy thrillers.' - Matthew Condon'An intimate and compelling look at an ordinary family who happen to be ASIO agen ...Show more
Without My Mum: A Daughter's Guide to Grief, Loss and Reclaiming Life by Leigh Van Der Horst
$37.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
When Leigh Van Der Horst lost her beloved mother to cancer in 2008, she faced her biggest battle yet. In Without My Mum, she invites us on a journey that is at times heartbreaking, others heartwarming, but ultimately comforting and inspiring. With warmth and candour, Leigh tells of her transformative pa ...Show more
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood by Kit de Waal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian KeyesFrom the award-winning author of MY NAME IS LEON comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic: stinging, warm-hearted, and true.Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opp ...Show more
Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment by Jenny Valentish
$38.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way. Her travels around Australia take her to treatment facilities and AA groups. Mining the expertise of leading researchers, she explores the early predictors of addiction, such as chil ...Show more
Wooleen Way: Renewing an Australian Resource by David Pollock
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Australian Memoir
The outback conjures many images that the Australian psyche is built upon. Its grand vistas of sweeping dusty plains and its evocation of a tough pioneering spirit form the foundation of our prosperous culture. But these romantic visions often hide the stark environmental, economic, and social problems ...Show more
Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy w ...Show more