Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative an ...Show more
Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
A message from the Captain: 'On behalf of myself and the entire Ayoade team, welcome to Ayoade on Top. At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin-crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the Top, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.' Buckle up for the flight of your life. 'The most profoundly silly book ...Show more
Camera Girl - The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: very good
An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion. Camera ...Show more
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures by Mikey Robins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein The history books are full of heroes and villains… but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one idiot at a ti ...Show more
A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E. Grant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly Alderton 'Fascinating, funny and heart wrenching' Dame Julie Walter ...Show more
Flic: The True Story of the Journalist Who Infiltrated the Police by Valentin Gendrot
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: very good
flic(French noun, masculine)(slang, derogatory)cop; police officerFlic(noun)The gripping and groundbreaking work of French comics journalism.What happens behind the walls of a police station? What kind of living does a cop make? And how does a culture of racism and violence become entrenched? Valentin G ...Show more
Aussie Midwives by Fiona McArthur
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
'Being present as the midwife at a baby's birth is one of life's glorious adventures.'In a new edition, twenty Australian midwives reflect on their practice and its changes with passionate midwife and bestselling author Fiona McArthurMidwives play a vital role in supporting women through some of the mos ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again! When Kate ...Show more
Love Language: A Memoir of Family, Music and Pasta by Linda Marigliano
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
A compelling, relatable and powerfully moving memoir of people-pleasing, family and what it means to love and be loved, from radio presenter and podcaster Linda Marigliano. Linda Marigliano has built a career out of performing for other people. In her day-job as an on-air presenter or in her family hom ...Show more
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West by Konstantin Kisin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
For all of the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides. Konstantin would know. Growing up in the Soviet Union, he experienced first-hand the horrors of a socialist paradise gone wrong, having lived in extreme poverty ...Show more
King Charles III by Gill Knappett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
An illustrated celebration of the new King of the United Kingdom, His Royal Highness King Charles III This is the story of the boy born into a royal dynasty and his journey from schoolboy to eligible young bachelor, from fatherhood to beloved grandfather, and now Accession of the throne itself. A fascin ...Show more
Reckless by Marele Day
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Jean Kay, my skipper, fellow adventurer, my friend. My brother. Jean Kay, soldier-of-fortune, opportunist, embezzler, hijacker. In her youth, amidst the throes of a reckless grief, aspiring Australian writer Marele Day is caught up in a shipwreck adventure and forges an unlikely bond with an internatio ...Show more