The Fry Chronicles (#2) by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge University as a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that any moment he would be sent away. Instead, he befriended bright young things like Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie, and he emerged as one of the most promising comi ...Show more
The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy #3) by Gerald Durrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the ...Show more
The Shapeless Unease - A Year of Not Sleeping by Samantha Harvey
$5.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psychology in a transcendent search for reality and truth. In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. Sh ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...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
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 Language of Thieves - The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family's Secret History by Martin Puchner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
You might have heard the saying ‘you’re in a pickle’ meaning you’re in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs, and spoken by vagrants and refugees, merchants and thieves since the European Middl ...Show more
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
$22.99 AUD
$24.99 (8% off)
Category: Biography
'It's not always a grim story. Alongside anger and despair there is love and hope. But the message is stark. This is the way bullies work. When Time Stopped is more than just history. It's a warning.' Michael PalinIn this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's pas ...Show more
The Lamberts - George, Constant and Kit by Andrew Motion
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Newly jacketed reissue of Motion's award-winning biography of this high-achieving yet tragically self-destructive family.
Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words by Boel Westin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a pain ...Show more
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
$28.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"In Dante in Love, A. N. Wilson presents a glittering study of an artist and his world, arguing that without an understanding of medieval Florence, it is impossible to comprehend the meaning of Dante's great poem. He explains how the Italian States were at that time locked into violent feuds, mirrored i ...Show more
The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Meghan O'Rourke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened to her mother, but also at the inability of people to ...Show more