A Smile For My Parents by Heather Henderson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Heather Henderson is the only daughter of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and founder of the Liberal party. Father and daughter were very close, and in 2011 Heather edited and published Letters to My Daughter, a collection of letters written by Menzies to Heather throughou ...Show more
Santamaria - A Most Unusual Man by Gerard Henderson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
B.A. Santamaria was one of the most controversial Australians of our time. An ardent anti-Communist and devout Catholic, he was fiercely intelligent and a natural leader, polarising the community into loyal followers and committed opponents. In the 1940s Santamaria created the anti-Communist organisatio ...Show more
A Smile for My Parents by Heather Henderson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Heather Henderson is the only daughter of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and founder of the Liberal party. Father and daughter were very close, and in 2011 Heather edited and published Letters to My Daughter, a collection of letters written by Menzies to Heather througho ...Show more
Girl from Oz by Lyndall Hobbs
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In this memoir, Lyndall Hobbs bares all. Heartfelt, hilarious and down-to-earth, this book brims with Hobbs' honesty, charm and self-deprecating voice as she comes of age and leaves home to live among the stars. Too large for life in suburbia, at 19 Lyndall left home to pursue her dream of being a journ ...Show more
Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens by Katie Holmes
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Between the Leaves is an intimate exploration into the lives of nine twentieth-century women - including Judith Wright, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Winifred Stephensen and Jean Galbraith - who wrote about their garden in their letters and diaries. This title provides a moving insight into these women's ...Show more
Hemingway in Love: His Own Story by A. E. Hotchner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This Hemingway memoir completes A.E. Hotchner's international blockbuster Papa Hemingway, originally published fifty years ago. Hemingway in Love includes material previously withheld from publication, illustrated by photographs drawn from Hotchner's own collection. As a friend and confidante, Hotchner ...Show more
Hemingway in Love by A. E. Hotchner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling H ...Show more
Settling Day by Kate Howarth
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Following on from her award-winning memoir Ten Hail Marys, Kate Howarth's extraordinary life continues in Settling Day. Thrust out of her son's life while he is still a toddler, teenaged Kate has to rely on her wits and courage to start life anew. Filled with remorse and an unwavering determination to b ...Show more
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: good-very good
The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award--winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isa ...Show more
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Critically acclaimed, award-winning British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard details his childhood, his first performances on the streets of London, his ascent to worldwide success on stage and screen, and his comedy shows which have won over audiences around the world. Over the course of a thirty-year c ...Show more
Stolen Time by Sunny Jacobs
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'In a world of one, I am alone, more alone than I have ever been in my life.Locked up in a box within a box where no one can enter and I cannot leave. I am to await my death.' In 1976 a twenty-eight-year-old mother of two and her partner were wrongfully sentenced to death by the Florida courts for the m ...Show more
And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II by Jacques Lusseyran
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. H ...Show more