The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
A Thousand Wasted Sundays by Victoria Vanstone
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A party girl with a socially acceptable binge-drinking habit swaps glitter boobs for mum shorts in this hilarious and heartfelt memoir. Victoria Vanstone grew up in 1980s England in a happy home full of laughter, booze and a disturbing amount of fancy-dress parties. From her youthful days downing cheap ...Show more
Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life by Kristine Philipp
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office chick, shit-kicker, donkey worker, general dogsbody or gofer (go for this, go for that). Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life is the hilarious ...Show more
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Ambition and Betrayal (PB) by Laurence Leamer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'DREAM HOLIDAY READING....I ENJOYED LEAMER'S BOOK A LOT.' SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY PERFECT POOLSIDE READING AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE MINI-SERIES.' THE TIMES'BARRELING AND WELL-RESEARCHED.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A JUICY, ENGAGING READ.' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, th ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Diaries of a Junior Doctor
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more tha ...Show more
The Women's Pool by Lynne Spender (ed)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The history of McIvers Ladies Baths in Coogee affectionately know as the Womens Pool is eloquently told in these stories by women who have found friendship, sanctuary and simple pleasure as they have gathered and swum there. The history of Coogees McIvers Ladies Baths Australias only ocean pool reserved ...Show more
Lies My Mirror Told Me: A Frank, Funny, Fearless Memoir by Wendy Harmer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Entertainer and national treasure Wendy Harmer tells all in her frank, fearless and funny memoir, Lies My Mirror Told Me. 'I've always believed where there's a chance, you have to take it . . . or invent it.' Wendy Harmer has had an extraordinary life. From being born with a severe facial deformity, t ...Show more
Whole Notes by Ed Ayres
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Life Lessons Through Music How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves? One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more