The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Pulitzer-Prize winner Samantha Power is widely known as the moral voice of her generation. A relentless advocate for promoting human rights, she has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy." The Education of an Idealist traces Power's extraordinar ...Show more
Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 by Deborah Levy
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. Itis a work of ...Show more
The Search Warrant by Patrick Modiano
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'Missing a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15, height 1.55m, oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt and hat, brown gym shoes. All information to M. and Mme Bruder, 41 Boulevard Ornano, Paris.' The author chanced upon this notice in a December 1941 issue of Paris ...Show more
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming nove ...Show more
Winter: (Seasons Quartet 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Lars Lerin (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world loo ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$28.80 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
White Album: Essays by Joan Didion
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define m ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
2013 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic e ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
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
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his ...Show more
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France - two days on foot through the snow.' Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately ...Show more