The Happy Hooker: My Own Story by Xaviera Hollander
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In the 1960s, as the sexual revolution was mushrooming, a beautiful young Dutch woman named Xaviera de Vries became the most powerful madam in New York City. In 1972, under the name Xaviera Hollander, she published a candid -read racy -account of her life behind the brothel door. The Happy Hooker shot s ...Show more
A Sea-Chase by Roger McDonald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Judy and Wes fall in love instantly and from the beginning are rarely apart. Yet they never really share their ambitions and passions with each other. Son of a preacher, Wes, is passionate about everything and a particular cause is the battle against the French nuclear testing in the Pacific. And boatbu ...Show more
Revolution by Emmanuel Macron; Jonathan Goldberg (Translator); Juliette Scott (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The bestselling memoir by France's president, Emmanuel Macron. Some believe that our country is in decline, that the worst is yet to come, that our civilization is withering away. That only isolation or civil strife are on our horizon. That to protect ourselves from the great transformations taking pla ...Show more
Black Caviar by Gerard Whateley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Black Caviar is the most recognisable sports star in the country. When she races it is front-page news. With the perfect record of 25 wins, her place in the history books is already internationally assured. With a devoted army of salmon-and-black-spotted fans, leading trainer Peter Moody's mare is a pro ...Show more
White Nights by Austin Galt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'God made Colombia the most beautiful country in the world so he had to balance it by inhabiting it with the worst people in the world.' Old Colombian Proverb Australian writer Austin Galt arrived in Colombia looking for a life less ordinary. He found it - or did it find him? On Austin's first day in th ...Show more
One Life Once Chance by Luke Richmond
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
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Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir, a sequel to his best-selling The Justice Game, Australia?s inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old Bailey barrister and thence onwards and upwards to a leading role in the struggle for human rights ...Show more
Trafficked Girl: Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. This Is My Story of Fighting Back. by Zoe Patterson; Jane Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the cruel abuse she had suffered throughout her childhood. Then social services placed her in a residential unit known to be 'a target for prostitution', and suddenly Zoe's life was worse than it had ever bee ...Show more
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness'It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of T ...Show more
Fidel and Che by Simon Reid-Henry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the remarkable friendship between two iconic figures. Not yet thirty, Fidel Castro and Ernesto (Che) Guevara met in 1955 while both in exile in Mexico City. Guevara, the Argentine doctor plagued by asthma, had reached the end of the travels he be ...Show more
Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra by Anne Aly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of an irrespressible woman 'Anne Aly's ... influence will be felt for years to come ... It sinks in how significant she may be to public life.' - The Good Weekend In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and th ...Show more
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"The first noteworthy treatment of its subject--and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate." --The New York Times Book Review The most authoritative biography--featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs--of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomen ...Show more