Eleanor Marx: A Life: A Life by Rachel Holmes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions. For ye ...Show more
Ben Cousins: My Life Story by Ben Cousins
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Ben Cousins has one of the most extraordinary stories in modern Australian sport. He's perhaps the most gifted player of his generation - a former captain of the West Coast eagles, a Brownlow medallist, a premiership winner, voted the AFL's Most Valuable Player - but he's best known for what he has done ...Show more
Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The critically acclaimed number 1 bestseller in paperback. A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was ...Show more
Adele by Sean Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good
Adele touches the hearts of millions of people who love her for her music and share the real and honest emotion she brings to each and every song. In a cynical age, she is a phenomenon. In Adele, bestselling biographer Sean Smith talks to those close to her as he follows her astonishing journey to fame ...Show more
The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State by Mohammed Samer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The Raqqa Diaries began as a series of short broadcasts on the Radio 4's Today Programme. Now one of the most isolated and fear ridden cities on earth, no-one is allowed to speak to western journalists or leave Raqqa, without IS' permission. Those caught breaking the rules face death by beheading. Despi ...Show more
The Last Dog on the Island by Steve Kelleher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Last Dog on the Island is a memoir, tracing the author's return to handling dogs for Customs after a 10-year break and a failed career change. The Customs Dog unit in Tasmania held the unusual position of being the drug detector dog unit for all the Federal and State Law Enforcement agencies on the isla ...Show more
Nevertheless: A Memoir by Alec Baldwin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
One of the most accomplished and outspoken actors today chronicles the highs and lows of his life in this beautifully written, candid memoir. Over the past three decades, Alec Baldwin has established himself as one of Hollywood's most gifted, hilarious, and controversial leading men. From his work in p ...Show more
No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface from Patrick Modiano by Francoise Frenkel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A bitter, beautiful and important bookRobert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENTThe French sensation, now in English translation.Fran oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving ...Show more
The Zookeeper's Wife - The true story of an unlikely heroine by Diane Ackerman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Bestseller, 2008 Orion Book Award winner -- When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw -- and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside th ...Show more
Theft by Finding: Diaries Vol 1 by David Sedaris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Brian Logan, Guardian review of An Evening with David Sedaris. The point is to find out who you are and to be true to th ...Show more
Hemingway at War: Ernest Hemingway's Adventures as a World War II Correspondent by Terry Mort
$39.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
In the spring of 1944, Ernest Hemingway travelled to London and then to France to cover the Second World War for Colliers Magazine. He had resisted this kind of journalism for the early period of the war but now threw himself into the thick of events. He flew missions with the RAF, went on a landing cra ...Show more
Inside Vogue A Diary of My 100th Year by Alexandra Shulman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The secret diary of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman and the real story behind the BBC TV ABSOLUTELY FASHION documentary. 'One of the great social diaries of our time . . . should become a classic.' Sunday Times 'Eye-popping, brilliantly candid' Evening Standard What a year for Vogue! Alexandra S ...Show more