Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon by Iris Apfel
$45.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
"I have rarely met someone as vivid, as alive, as vital, vivacious, irreverent, joyous, relevant, and needed as Iris. She breathes young air, thinks young thoughts, and gathers no dust. I simply adore her."--Dries van Noten A unique and lavishly illustrated collection of musings, anecdotes, and observa ...Show more
Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime by Julian Guthrie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: near fine
An unforgettable story of four women who came to California to try to make it in a world stacked against them. Through grit and ingenuity, the women became stars in cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated Silicon Valley and helped build some of the most important companies of our day. They were written o ...Show more
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family. At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the o ...Show more
Island Home by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is a ...Show more
Know My Name by Emily Doe
$25.00 AUD
$45.00 (44% off)
Category: Auto/Biography
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD 'A beautifully written, powerful, important story. It marks the debut of a gifted young writer' New York Times 'A searing, beautiful book by a supremely talented writer' Sunday Times 'Extraordinary woman turning pain into ...Show more
About a Girl: A Mother's Powerful Story of Raising her Transgender Child by Rebekah Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Transgender | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 2000, Rebekah Robertson gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by the age of three it was clear Georgie was drawn to anything that was pretty or had a skirt that could swirl. Before long Georgie began to insist that she was a girl and b ...Show more
Just Kids Illustrated Edition by Patti Smith
$60.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir, now richly illustrated with new material and never-before-seen photographs Patti's Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New York locations vividly come to life wh ...Show more
Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya - the tragic true story that inspired 'Doctor Zhivago'. 'Doctor Zhivago' has sold in its millions yet the true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored. Pasternak would often say 'Lara exist ...Show more
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
This is the story of an unwanted Chinese daughter, growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic drama is played against the extraordinary political ...Show more
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read by Dawn French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here she describes the journey that would eve ...Show more
Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies by Stephanie Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a sweet man who owns a farm and property, she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, truthful and loving. He talks about t ...Show more
Nobody Will Tell You This but Me: A True (as told to me) Story by Bess Kalb
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: near fine
"When I stop crying, I'm calling my mother immediately and making her read it." --Jodi Picoult "Comic lines as good as in any movie, and pathos as deep as in any novel" --Mike Birbiglia Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever ...Show more