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The Stirrings: Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize

The Stirrings: Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
'Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which most girls grow up. The Stirrings is a pleasure and a shock' Eimear McBride...
Marrying Anita

Marrying Anita

$32.95 AUD$10.00 AUD
You are a single woman in your thirties, fed up with the singles scene. You are tired of singles dinner parties, and exhausted by phone calls, e-profiles, and forced dinner...
Broken Dreams: First Nations Classics

Broken Dreams: First Nations Classics

$19.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Gayle Kennedy, Broken Dreams is a moving and inspiring story of a life transformed in an accident, told...
I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen

I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Shortly before his second birthday, Allison Moorer's son, John Henry, stopped using the twenty-seven words he had learned. John Henry's diagnosis of nonverbal autism was devastating, even though Allison knew...
Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal  that

Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal that

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
As a kid, Randy Lanier dreamed of achieving four-wheel glory at the Indianapolis 500, but knew he'd never be able to afford the most expensive sport on earth. That all...
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

$24.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
A raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of Ellroy's novels. The theme- the author's obsessive pursuit of women. America's greatest living crime writer gives us a raw,...
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

$10.00 AUD
Leap of Faith is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. Queen Noor of Jordan provides a compelling portrait of her...
The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation

The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation

$35.00 AUD$10.00 AUD
Like A YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING this powerful and touching book is both an inspirational read and a comfort to those who are looking for help in overcoming loss. The...
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

$12.00 AUD
The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir--as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels--about his obsessive search for "atonement in women." The year...
India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking

India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking

$32.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to...
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back

When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
'Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is.' Max Porter, author of GRIEF IS THE THING...
Free: A Life in Images and Words

Free: A Life in Images and Words

$125.00 AUD$106.25 AUD
The early life path of Ukraine-born Sergei Polunin was akin to a dancer's fairytale. A precocious talent. Ballet training in Kiev. Admission to the Royal Ballet School in London at...
Breaking Waves: Discovery, Healing and Inspiration in the Open Water

Breaking Waves: Discovery, Healing and Inspiration in the Open Water

$47.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
A warm, reflective, and uplifting memoir about healing wounds, reclaiming a voice and discovering freedom through the open water. The open water. To the uninitiated, it represents the unknown, an...
Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

$47.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning about saying pass to procreation and building an enriching life beyond the nuclear family' - VOGUE 'Harpy...
Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

$47.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning about saying pass to procreation and building an enriching life beyond the nuclear family' - VOGUE 'Harpy...
The Little Guide to Harry Styles: The New King of Pop

The Little Guide to Harry Styles: The New King of Pop

$14.99 AUD$8.00 AUD
The world's biggest star squeezed down to a miniature pocket-size. Harry Styles is the hero we all deserve right now. And judging by the deafening noise he received on his...
Motherland

Motherland

$36.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
' Motherland had me feeling angry, then sobbing, then laughing, then cheering and finally left me so inspired. These true stories, captured so beautifully by Stephanie Trethewey, reveal the guts,...
Jennifer's Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease--What Doctors Don't

Jennifer's Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease--What Doctors Don't

$44.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness estimates that as many as one in 133 Americans has celiac disease. Unfortunately, 83 percent of people who have this terrible disease are undiagnosed...
Trapped: A Couple's Five Years of Hell in Dubai

Trapped: A Couple's Five Years of Hell in Dubai

$34.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
How Australian Marcus Lee and his wife, Julie, survived wrongful imprisonment, house arrest and five years of trials and tribulations in Dubai. In 2006 Marcus Lee moved to Dubai with...
Two Mums and a Dad

Two Mums and a Dad

$29.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties...
Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider

Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider

$34.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Whether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury's life travelling the world brings daily challenges. Border Crossings is a thrilling ride...
The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure

The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure

$22.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of You Are Mighty, a real-life derring-do woman, a collection of exhilarating stories, activities, and tips to inspire girls to pursue a life...
Girlvert: A Porno Memoir

Girlvert: A Porno Memoir

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Proclaimed "girl-pervert" Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and...
I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how

I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
The inspiring story from 2025 NSW Young Australian of the Year Nominee, Alex Noble, whose wisdom and strength can teach us all how to live life to the fullest, no...
Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to

Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to

$35.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal. On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright...
Our Country in Crisis: Britain's Housing Emergency and How We Rebuild

Our Country in Crisis: Britain's Housing Emergency and How We Rebuild

$55.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
'Kwajo's voice is leading the call for change on behalf of a generation who have been seriously failed by Westminster.' Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester 'A brilliant thinker and...
Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom

Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom

$24.95 AUD$10.00 AUD
Most people only know her as Justin Bieber's mom, but Pattie Mallette has had an incredible journey of her own. Many people have heard of her son's rags to riches...
Around The Grounds: Magic Moments From The Life Of A Sports

Around The Grounds: Magic Moments From The Life Of A Sports

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Peter Newlinds worked for ABC Radio Grandstand for 18 years through the 1990s and 2000s. His name and voice will be familiar to cricket followers around Australia, and also to...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of

Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of

$34.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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...
Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop

Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The...
Pixie:Inside A World Of Drugs, Sex And Violence

Pixie:Inside A World Of Drugs, Sex And Violence

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Andrea Mohr's CV is an eye-opening read: drug runner, hostess, money launderer, drug dealer and importer amongst other things. Alongside this was a glamorous life filled with travel, movie stars...
Lockdown: Inside Brazil's Most Dangerous Prison

Lockdown: Inside Brazil's Most Dangerous Prison

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of Sao Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Known as the 'Old House', it was also...
Gang of One: One Man's Incredible Battle to Find his Missing Daughter:

Gang of One: One Man's Incredible Battle to Find his Missing Daughter:

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Imagine you're a 35 year old, white, British, middle-class business man sentenced to three years in Big Spring, one of America's most notorious prisons. You've been told that if get...
First Fly, Last Fly

First Fly, Last Fly

$21.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Storytellers and bards have always been with us from the mists of deepest antiquity to the present. Alistair Brooks is one of the more recent in this long line of...
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime

Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime

$12.00 AUD
A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many...
No Place to Lay One's Head: with a preface from Patrick Modiano

No Place to Lay One's Head: with a preface from Patrick Modiano

$34.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
An extraordinary story of one woman's attempt to survive the horrors of Vichy France. A bitter, beautiful and important book Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT The French sensation, now in English...
Still Life with Remorse

Still Life with Remorse

$69.99 AUD$59.49 AUD
From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty, My Favorite Things, and Women Holding Things comes a moving meditation in words and pictures...
My Booky Wook

My Booky Wook

$27.49 AUD$10.00 AUD
"A child's garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.... The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better...
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands

Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
' Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A few years...
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography

Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography

$35.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling autobiography Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible truth of the last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. 50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson...
Kissing Frogs

Kissing Frogs

$24.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
Less Venus in Furs, more Derek in Buxton. Interested? Write to Derek in Buxton. Box 977. RU4ME? Contemplating internet dating? Wondering why anyone would? Fantasising about what you'd find? Fretting...
Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer

Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer

$12.00 AUD
Chely Wright, singer, songwriter, country music star, writes in this moving, telling memoir about her life and her career; about growing up in America's heartland, the youngest of three children;...
Hating God, Loving God: How a Young Man Born Into Suffering and Driven

Hating God, Loving God: How a Young Man Born Into Suffering and Driven

$12.00 AUD
Hating God, Loving God presents the author's graphic and painful memories of being raised in a secretive, abusive, and manipulative cult, and how his childhood sufferings spilled over into a...
Breaking & Mending: A junior doctor's stories of compassion & burnout

Breaking & Mending: A junior doctor's stories of compassion & burnout

$27.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
'A few years ago, I found myself in A&E. I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well,...
Cheetah's Tale, A

Cheetah's Tale, A

$47.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
This charming autobiographical tale from Princess Michael of Kent tells of a girl growing up and the incredible bond that can exist between people and animals. In the early 1960s,...
Free Spirit: A Memoir of an Extraordinary Life

Free Spirit: A Memoir of an Extraordinary Life

$55.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
"I read Free Spirit all in one go as I literally couldn't put it down.Tanya Sarne's courage and resilience are utterly awe-inspiring.You could read no better book than this on...
Madam: A memoir

Madam: A memoir

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
NOW A MAJOR AWARD-WINNING SERIES STARRING RACHEL GRIFFITHS AND MARTIN HENDERSON ON NINE. What would you do if your husband suddenly left you with two kids to support? Go back...