The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those ye ...Show more
A.A. Gill is Away by A. A. Gill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A. A. Gill is probably the most read columnist in Britain. Every weekend he entertains readers of the SUNDAY TIMES with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews. Even those who want to hate him agree: A. A. Gill is hopelessly, painfully funny. He i ...Show more
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Rich with humour, insight, compassion - and absolute honesty - Tiny Beautiful Things is a balm for everything life throws our way, administered by the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir, Wild.
Diary of a Foreign Minister by Bob Carr
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Six years after vacating his position as the longest-serving Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr returned to politics in his dream job: as Foreign Minister of Australia and a senior federal cabinet minister.For 18 months he kept a diary documenting a whirl of high-stakes events on the world stage - the ...Show more
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human exper ...Show more
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and fearless cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritari ...Show more
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier by Doug Gold
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The true story of an escaped soldier hiding out in the house of a Greek dressmaker who is secretly a resistance fighter. It's an epic love story against the odds, set during the Nazi occupation of Greece in WW2. Peter Blunden, a New Zealand soldier captured in Crete, jumps from a train and escapes from ...Show more
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl; Jeroen De Bruyn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Much has been written about Anne Frank's life, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold - until now.As the youngest of the five Dutch people who hid the Frank family, Bep Voskuijl was Anne's closest confidante during the 761 excruciating days she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. In those cramp ...Show more
If You Would Have Told Me: A Memoir by John Stamos
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
If you would have told a teenage John Stamos, flipping burgers at his father's southern California restaurant, that one day he'd be a teen idol, star in one of the most beloved and enduring sitcoms of our time, and become a part-time member of The Beach Boys - among many other accomplishments - he would ...Show more
Bear Woman by Karolina Ramqvist; Saskia Vogel (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A memoir of myth, motherhood and hidden history
A Farming Life: Tales of resilience from inspiring rural women by Liz Harfull
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Bestselling author Liz Harfull shares fascinating true stories of rural Australian women, showcasing the passion, tenacity and resilience required to make a life on the land. Making a living on the land in Australia can be tough at the best of times, but the last few years of seemingly endless droughts, ...Show more
Big Blue Sky: A memoir by Peter Garrett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Peter Garrett's life has been fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, intelligence and creativity, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives.From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney, to an early interest in equality and justice; from ...Show more