A Mother's Story by Rosie Batty
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Anderson murdered his 11-year-old son Luke and was then shot by police at the Tyabb cricket oval. Rosie ...Show more
Splinters: A Memoir by Leslie Jamison
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art and new love. In this blend of memoir and criticism, Leslie Jamison turns her attention to some of the most int ...Show more
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This debut from a former Queensland judge's associate breaks the silence around sexual assault and all the ways Australia's court system tries to silence victims. If you're wondering why Australia's #metoo movement hasn't g ...Show more
How We Love: Notes on a life by Clementine Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mothe ...Show more
The Space Between the Stars: On love, loss and the magical power of nature to heal by Indira Naidoo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts. 'Life-changing' Kate Ceberano'Powerfully moving and insightful' David George Haskell For as long as I can remember, there has always been just the three of us. Three sisters. Only a year bet ...Show more
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has be ...Show more
Out of the Ashes: The Mothers love that healed the scars of the Bali Bombings by Megan Norris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
On Saturday 12th October 2002, Australian nurses, Therese Fox and Bronwyn Cartwright's idyllic holiday descended into their worst nightmare when they unwittingly found themselves in the midst of a callously orchestrated terrorist attack on two popular Balinese tourist nightspots which claimed the lives ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, p ...Show more
Walking the Himalayas: An Adventure of Survival and Endurance by Levison Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'Levison Wood has breathed new life into adventure travel.' Michael Palin'Levison Wood is a great adventurer and a wonderful storyteller' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bestselling author of Walking the Nile 'Levison Wood is "bewildered" by ...Show more
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit And Double Measures Of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother by Gareth Russell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’ During her lifetime, ...Show more
The Last Navigator: From the Queensland Bush to Bomber Command and Pathfinders... a True Story of Courage and Survival Against the Odds by Paul Goodwin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
An extraordinary first-person story of a boy from the Queensland bush who survived the dangers of Bomber Command to become Qantas' last navigator.
The Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few have talked about. In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmani ...Show more