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
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned by Lena Dunham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir | Reading Level: very good
For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham - the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls - as one of the brightest and most original writers working today. "Not That Kind of Girl i ...Show more
Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade by Jean-Pascal Hesse
$125.00 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Classics Ser.
Man of letters, philosopher, and politician, the Marquis de Sade is one of the most controversial figures since the eighteenth century, but recently psychology, theater, cinema, and literary criticism have shed new light on his life and works. Lacoste Castle in the South of France, one of the properties ...Show more
Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in ...Show more
Living Well is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins
$19.95 AUD
$21.99 (9% off)
Category: Biography Memoir
First published in 1971 and now available for a younger generation with a new introduction by the author, "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" is Calvin Tomkins' now-classic account of the lives of Gerald and Sara Murphy, two American expatriates who formed an extraordinary circle of friends in France duri ...Show more
Cadence by Eddie Ayres
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
Memoir, intercontinental cycling adventure, music guide - Cadence is the debut book by ABC Classic FM's Emma Ayres. Accompanied by Vita, her steadfast bicycle, and her violin, Aurelia, Emma cycles her way from England to Hong Kong. But this is also a journey through the keys - through the music that has ...Show more
The Literary Churchill : Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose
$49.95 AUD
$69.00 (27% off)
Category: Biography Memoir
This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill's careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theatre on Churchill's personal, carefully composed grand story and ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Vanished Years by Rupert Everett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
Rupert Everett's first memoir - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on publication in 2006. Reviewers compared him to Evelyn Waugh, David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron. But Rupert Everett is - of course - one of a kind. Mischievous, touching an ...Show more
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir | Reading Level: good
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night, he spent it as fast as he could on drugs, sex and travel. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab; to the wife and kids who waited for him at home; and the fast-talking, hard-partyi ...Show more
Long Walk To Freedom; Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the dra ...Show more
Give Me Excess of It by Richard Gill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography Memoir
Richard Gill is one of Australia's best-known - and best-loved - musical figures. His career has taken him from teaching music in Sydney's western suburbs to Music Director of the Victorian Opera, and along the way an involvement with almost every major opera company and orchestra in Australia. What tru ...Show more