Kitchen Sentimental: A journey to self-discovery, one recipe at a time by Annie Smithers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: November of Draft Layout Ser.
The memoir of a beloved cook, told through the kitchens and recipes that shaped her 'A beautiful Australian who feeds our hearts and soul.' Virginia Trioli When we cook for others, or ourselves, the deepest hunger we feed is love. In her new memoir, respected chef and paddock-to-plate pioneer Annie S ...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
Father of the Lost Boys: Young Readers Edition by Yuot A Alaak
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The inspiring true story of a teacher and community leader who led twenty thousand Lost Boys to safety during the Second Sudanese Civil War - now available for younger readers. During the Second Sudanese Civil War, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced or orphaned. In 1989, teacher and communi ...Show more
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz: A heartbreaking true story of courage and survival by Dexter Ford, Henry Oster
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The instant Sunday Times and Amazon charts bestseller "I found myself in the Auschwitz stables, and I felt an ember of hope. If I could make myself useful, helping these horses, maybe I could stay alive." In the darkest moment of history, one child found the courage and strength to survive the unimagina ...Show more
An Unlikely Prisoner: How an eternal optimist found hope in Myanmar's most notorious jail by Sean Turnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
How hope became one man's closest companion in his darkest hour. 'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar's terrifying Insei ...Show more
Brat: An '80s Story by Andrew McCarthy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Fans of Patti Smith's Just Kids and Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining and bracingly honest memoir by an actor, director and author who found his start as a 1980s Hollywood Brat pack member. Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his roles in movi ...Show more
Private Equity by Carrie Sun
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduat ...Show more
Grief is for People: A Memoir by Sloane Crosley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. Potent and propulsive, a lyrical meditation on loss and what comes after - TARA WESTOVER For most of her adult life, Sloane and Russell worked together and played together ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
Toffee Apples and Quail Feathers - New Stories from Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth; Suzannah Worth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her excitement when she sat down to read and her mother's distinctive voice came flooding back. She found herself once again immersed in the ...Show more
Counterfeit Countess (Janina Mehlberg) The untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust by Elizabeth B White, Joanna Sliwa
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A fascinating biography of the incredible Janina (Pepi Spinner) Mehlberg, a German-Jewish mathematician who saved the lives of many inmates of the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp at Lublin in Poland during the Second World War - which she did by posing as a bogus Polish aristocrat named Co ...Show more
You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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