Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga by Sam Elkin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A darkly humorous and groundbreaking memoir from a new voice in queer literature. In Detachable Penis A Queer Legal Saga, Elkin relates his bumpy journey from lesbian to transgender lawyer in the aftermath of the 2017 marriage equality postal survey. As the inaugural lawyer of Victoria's queer law ser ...Show more
Houdini Unbound: Mystery, Music and Flying Machines by Alan Attwood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
It is 1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini is in Australia for the first time. The most celebrated escape artist in the world has sold-out seasons in both Melbourne and Sydney.Houdini has a new obsession- aviation. He has brought with him from Europe his own Voisin biplane, being put together a ...Show more
Mothering Heights: A year of joy and survival in the trenches of early parenthood by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A comedy, tragedy and farcical romp all rolled into one, Mothering Heights is a year-in-the-life love story about becoming a mother from the hilarious author of Pardon My French, Rachael Mogan McIntosh. For fans of ABC TV's The Letdown, Nina Stibbe's Love, Nina and Alison Pearson's I Don't Know How She ...Show more
Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan by Dr Sima Samar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'I have three strikes against me. I'm a woman, I speak out for women and I'm Hazara, the most persecuted tribe in Afghanistan.' Dr Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and had to agree ...Show more
The Tender Bar: Now a Major Film Directed by George Clooney and Starring Ben Affleck by J R Moehringer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
**Now a major film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck**'Highly entertaining . . . constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author's Uncle Charlie' New York TimesIn the rich tradition of bestselling memoirs about self-invention, The Tender Bar is by turns riveting, moving, and ac ...Show more
Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLERHenry Marsh has spent four decades operating on the human brain. In this searing and provocative memoir following his retirement from the NHS, he reflects on the experiences that have shaped his career and life, gaining a deeper understanding of what matters to us all in ...Show more
Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia's first MasterChef by Julie Goodwin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The extraordinary life story of Australia's beloved Julie Goodwin, first winner of MasterChef and bestselling cookbook author Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In many ways her win was unlikely. As a child Julie adored music and art, but her ...Show more
The Long and Winding Road by Lesley Pearse
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence on the bestseller chart.A writer of heart-stopping stories, Lesley's books are filled with heroines struggling to make it in a difficult world.Yet this descr ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir by Sam Neill
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism – Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has led a remarkable life. Power of Balance is a landmark memoir that explores the events and ideas that have inspired and provoked her in working to create change. One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as p ...Show more
You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
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
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness from Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018 to 2022) by Scott Morrison
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith and operated at the top level of politics for more than a decade. During one of the toughest periods since the second world war, covering drought, wildfires, a globa ...Show more