Crazy for the StormA Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad
$25.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A riveting and moving memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose and set amid the wild, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by the intense, charismatic father he ...Show more
The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress by Frances Osborne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Afr ...Show more
Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family by Emer O'Sullivan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics - his precocious intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his recklessness, his pride, his sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values - to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist, advocat ...Show more
Last Woman Hanged: The terrible, true story of Louisa Collins by Caroline Overington
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
One woman. Two husbands. Four trials. One bloody execution. The last woman hanged in NSW. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands died suddenly. The C ...Show more
Istanbul - Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: good
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination. This is a supremely moving account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his ho ...Show more
Joseph Banks: A Life by Patrick O'Brian
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: good
Yoko's Diary by Paul Ham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The diary of Yoko, a 13-year-old Japanese girl who lived near Hiroshima during the war Ages: 8-12 1945 was a hard time to be a child in Japan. Many had seen their cities destroyed by US bombers. Food, fuel and materials were in short supply. Yet spirits remained high. In April 1945, Yoko Moriwaki starte ...Show more
You Gotta Want It by Jake Paul
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A humorous, motivational memoir in the vein of Tyler Oakley's Binge and Marcus Butler's Hello Life, from high-energy comedic social media phenomenon Jake Paul. How do you become Vine famous? What is life like when you have millions of followers on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram? In this extr ...Show more
Sophie: Dog Overboard by Emma Pearse
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
When Jan and Dave Griffith's beloved cattle dog, Sophie, fell overboard from the family yacht during rough weather, she feared the worst. But Sophie, a true Aussie battler, wasn't going to give up that easily. She swam six miles through shark-infested waters to a remote Whitsunday island where she survi ...Show more
Wylie: The Dog That Never Gave Up by Pen Farthing
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'When people gave up on Wylie, Wylie refused to give up on people.' For a street dog born in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, to be crowned top dog at Scruffts, a competition for crossbreeds held during Crufts, the largest dog show on earth, is nothing short of a miracle. But for Wylie, the gentle, cr ...Show more
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired 'Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for 'Moby-Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy. W ...Show more
Between Gods by Alison Pick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Alison Pick was born in the 1970s and raised in a loving, supportive family, but as a teenager she made a discovery that changed her understanding of who she was for ever. She learned that her Pick grandparents, who had escaped from Czechoslovakia during WWII, were Jewish, and that most of this side of ...Show more