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
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
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
Tennessee Williams - Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, 'like a farm boy in his Sunday best'. The Broadway ...Show more
Love Your Sister by Samuel Johnson; Connie Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A searingly honest memoir of family and love, this is the unforgettable tale of two inspiring Australians - Connie and Samuel Johnson. Connie had a love/hate relationship with cancer. She hated cancer but cancer loved her. It sought her out at twelve, again at twenty-two and then, at thirty-three, as a ...Show more
Montsalvat by Sigmund Jorgensen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the round table Montsalvat is the home of the Holy Grail. Australia's Montsalvat is an artists' colony in Eltham, established by the architect and artist Justus Jorgensen in 1934. It is home to over a dozen buildings, houses and halls built out of local st ...Show more
A Life in Frocks by Kelly Doust
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A Life in Frocks is about the 'divine obsession' - a woman's love for clothes. In particular, it is a personal, entertaining, joyous - and seductive - exploration on the significance of clothes, filtered through one woman's life-long sartorial infatuation. For as long as she can remember, Kelly Doust ha ...Show more
The Girl Who Beat Isis: My Story by Farida Khalaf & Andrea C. Hoffman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and the boys of her village, including her father and bro ...Show more
Euphoria by Lily King
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance enc ...Show more
Theft by Hanif Kureishi
$9.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'I was beginning to love my thief, a man I barely knew, but whom I had trusted and even liked, and who had taken my savings, amongst many other crimes.' A bravura piece of very personal reportage by Hanif Kureishi about the man who stole his life savings. Nearing sixty and needing to plan for his and hi ...Show more
Bumper: The Life and times of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell by Larry Writer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The sprawling saga of legendary Australian cop, Bumper Farrell, the most feared and revered policeman in Australia's history. Frank 'Bumper' Farrell was the roughest, toughest street cop and vice-squad leader Australia has ever seen. Strong as a bull, with cauliflowered ears and fists like hams, Bumper' ...Show more
Concussion - Film tie-in by Jeanne Marie Laskas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This is the story of one man's fight against a multibillion dollar colossus. A man who stood up for what was right, whatever the cost. The brilliant young forensic pathologist had no idea that the body on the slab in front of him would change his life, and ultimately change the world. The body belonge ...Show more