Fear: Our Ultimate Challenge by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on foot. He's been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in Oman. And yet he confesses that his fear of heights is so great that he'd rather send his wife up a ladder to clean the gutters than do it hims ...Show more
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman ...Show more
Scarred - The true story of how I escaped NXIVM, the cult that bound my life by Sarah Edmondson; Kristine Gasbarre
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Scarred is Sarah Edmondson's compelling memoir of her recruitment into the NXIVM cult, the twelve years she spent within the organization (during which she enrolled over 2,000 members), her breaking point, and her harrowing fight to get out, to help others and to heal. This is also a story about abuses ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern - A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: good-very good
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following th ...Show more
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios).Now a #1 international bestseller, BILLION DOLLAR WHALEis "an e ...Show more
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - a ...Show more
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isa ...Show more
Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories by Kim Mahood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully, something tears and a line that is neither latitude nor longitude opens ...Show more
Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz - The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century--Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton--became bitter rivals and, eventually, friends. Introduced at a workshop in Boston University led by the acclaimed and famous poet Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton ...Show more
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more
The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains i ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more