Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt's Search for Freedom and Identity in New York's Greenwich Village by Jan Jarboe Russell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A "riveting and enlightening account" (Bookreporter) of a mostly unknown chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt--when she moved to New York's Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America's First Lady. Hundreds of books have be ...Show more
Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first ever autobiography of John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, punk poet, rock star, fashion icon, national treasure and acerbic wit. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. At 5 feet 11 inche ...Show more
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
Life Goes On by Megan Maurice
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Whether it's cancer, a car accident, grief, a natural disaster or a family tragedy, we all experience trauma, and simply surviving takes everything we have. But what happens after that, when you realise that surviving survival might be harder still? With its combination of personal stories and expert in ...Show more
Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates by Eleanor Hogan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An original and riveting biography of two of the most singular women Australia has ever seen.Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Daisy Bates, dressed in Victorian garb, malnourished and half-blind, camped with Aboriginal people in Wes ...Show more
Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent? As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her husband's a ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary by Anne Frank
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more
Still Standing by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
There are few more moving experiences than for the silenced to be heard. Chrissie Foster is the mother who brought the rich and powerful Catholic Church to its knees over its global abuse of children, including two of her daughters, Emma and Katie. Like the Boston Globe's Spotlight team, she built an un ...Show more
The Space Between the Stars: On Love, Loss and the Magical Power of Nature To Heal by Indira Naidoo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts. 'Life-changing' Kate Ceberano'Powerfully moving and insightful' David George Haskell For as long as I can remember, there has always been just the three of us. Three sisters. Only a year bet ...Show more
Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Boy in the Cellar by Stephen Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The shocking true story of a boy who spent 13 years locked in a cellar only to flee into the hands of abusers.