Room to Dream by David Lynch; Kristine McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir | Reading Level: good
The extraordinary, highly anticipated memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch. In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaksand writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvetand Mulholland Drive, opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativit ...Show more
Robin - Biography of Robin Williams by Dave Itzkoff
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From "New York Times" culture reporter Itzkoff, comes the definitive biography of Robin Williams--a compelling portrait of one of America's most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.over.
Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys. by Viv Albertine
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir | Reading Level: very good
SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARMOJO BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar. A year later, she was the guitarist ...Show more
Danger Music: How teaching the cello to children in Afghanistan led to a self-discovery almost too hard to bear by Eddie Ayres
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience, from learning the viola as a child in England and playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for many years, to learning the cello in his thirties and landing in Australia to present an extremely successful Australian morning radio show. But all of this tim ...Show more
Theft by Finding: Diaries Vol 1 by David Sedaris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Brian Logan, Guardian review of An Evening with David Sedaris. The point is to find out who you are and to be true to th ...Show more
Talking To My Country: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country's flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed for centuries. A ...Show more
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angel ...Show more
Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia's most beloved performers, tells her story.In this extraordinary memoir, Magda describes her journey of self-discovery from a suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father's ...Show more
Frantumaglia: Fragments: on Writing and Reading by Elena Ferrante
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
Elena Ferrante is one of the greatest novelists of our time. Read her novels and don't worry about who she is: you will be entranced by her writing. Fragments is a riveting compilation, over the course of her writing career, of Elena Ferrante's letters to her publisher, interviews with editors and journ ...Show more
Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Heide Art in Victoria | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and tragedy, Modern Love explores the lives of these champions of successive gene ...Show more
H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick by Helen Macdonald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir | Reading Level: very good
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to ...Show more
Creatures of a Day and other tales of psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
In his long and distinguished career, Irvin D. Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients confront the difficulty of meetin ...Show more