First Lady : The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill by Sonia Purnell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Without Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour and repelled the Nazi menace. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never have become Prime Minister. By his own admission, the Second World War would have been 'impossible without her'. Clementine was Win ...Show more
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art by Rüdiger Safranski; David Dollenmayer (Translator)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This sterling biography of Germany's greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time. The work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has reverberated through two and a half centuries, altering the course of literature in ways both grand and intimate. No other write ...Show more
Beneath Whose Hand by R. Williams
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
R.M Williams, bushman, grazier, folk hero, raconteur-in fact one of the great legends of our time. This is his story.He left home in his teens and went bush. For months he trekked through the deserts and ranges of Central Australia as the camel-man of a two-man expedition. He then worked as a drover. Th ...Show more
Hanging Man: the Arrest of Ai Weiwei by Jonathan Reggio
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In October 2010, Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds appeared in the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern. In April 2011, he was arrested and held for over two months, in terrible conditions. The most famous living Chinese artist and activist, Weiwei is a figure of extraordinary talent, courage and integrity. From t ...Show more
Confessions of a Millionaire's Mistress the True Story of a Young Woman, an Illicit Affair and a World of Wealth and Glamour by Ava Reilly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
When Ava Reilly first met Hugh, she was shocked at the depth of feeling that she instantly felt. Soon, they had embarked on a passionate, stormy love affair that seemed inescapable.An affair was never something she thought she would have. Never something she believed in or could justify.
Reach for the Skies : Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space by Sir Richard Branson
$36.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An exhilarating and highly personal story of flight by the world-famous adventurer and businessman. "As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within ou ...Show more
Madness: a Memoir by Kate Richards
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize. It's not every day you get to admit you're mad.The thing with psychosis is that when I'm sick I believe the delusional stuff to the same degree that you migh ...Show more
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In 2015 poet and writer Nina Riggs was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it metastasised later that year. She was thirty-eight years old, married to the love of her life and the mother of two small boys; her mother had died only a few months earlier from multiple myeloma. The Bright Hour- A Memoir of Li ...Show more
Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward Fitzgerald by Robert D. Richardson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Written in Persian in the eleventh century, Omar Khayyam's quatrains, known as rubai, were written individually for an audience at court, and explored the meanings of life, love, and friendship. They were almost completely unknown in the West until Edward FitzGerald--himself a relatively obscure critic- ...Show more
This is Me: The Autobiography - Ian Thorpe by Ian Thorpe
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Ian Thorpe's achievements in the water are nothing short of phenomenal. He has won a record-holding eleven World Championship titles and ten Commonwealth Games gold medals. He has broken twenty-two world records and won five gold, three silver and one bronze Olympic medals. Having been under the spotlig ...Show more
Here it Is (HB) by Paul Roos (Contribution by); Jennifer McAsey (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As I stood on the stage with the 2005 Premiership Cup in my hand, these words came to me and I went off my script. 'For the people who've waited 72 years to see South Melbourne, the Sydney Swans, win the premiership, HERE IT IS!
A Handbook For My Lover by Rosalyn D'Mello
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography