My Tongue is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood: Winner of the 2023 National Biography Award by Ann-Marie Priest
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A masterful portrait of a major Australian writer, her incandescent poetry and her battles to be heard in a male-dominated literary establishment. The first biography of Gwen Harwood (1920-1995), one of Australia's most significant and distinctive poets. Harwood is renowned for her brilliance, but love ...Show more
Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton by Joe Moshenska
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips 'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' Spectator For most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightle ...Show more
Dog Years by Mark Doty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of the acclaimed poet's time with his two beloved retrievers - and a poignant, perceptive meditation on life, death, and the nature of canine companionship. Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he find ...Show more
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time by Jenny Uglow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From one of our most admired writers, the gripping story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 by Zachary Gorman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How did Menzies develop as the giant of Australian politics? Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in Australian history. As the nation's longest-serving prime minister, he transformed and ultimately dominated the political landscape, implementing policies that laid the foundations of modern Australia ...Show more
Taking Sides - A Memoir About Love, War, and Changing the World by Sherine Tadros
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The deeply moving memoir of an award-winning war correspondent turned activist - and her rousing defence of human rights in times of resurgent authoritarianism. As a broadcast journalist for Sky News and Al Jazeera, Sherine Tadros was trained to tell only the facts, as dispassionately as possible. But h ...Show more
Toy Fights: A Boyhood by Don Paterson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more general ...Show more
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace' - Patricia Highsmith (New Year's Eve, 1947). Made famous by the great success of her psychol ...Show more
537 Days of Winter: An Australian Antarctic Expedition Leader Stranded During the Pandemic by David Knoff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What would you do if you were stranded in the coldest place on earth as the world you knew back home changed forever ? As station leader at the Davis Research Station in Antarctica, David Knoff was leading 24 expeditioners in a standard mission when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, international travel came t ...Show more
My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm by Sam Vincent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer living in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother- his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but 'not to worry - it wasn't like that scene in Fargo or anything'. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, h ...Show more
Kiki Man Ray Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her best-selling memoir--featuring an introduction by Ernest Hemi ...Show more