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.
Babi Yar: The Story of Ukraine's Holocaust by A. Anatoli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The powerful rediscovered masterpiece of Kyiv during the Second World War, told by a young boy who saw it all. 'So here is my invitation: enter into my fate, imagine that you are twelve, that the world is at war and that nobody knows what is going to happen next...'It was 1941 when the German army rolle ...Show more
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, ...Show more
Between Them - Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family loveRichard Ford's parents volunteered little about their early lives - and he rarely asked. Later, he piec ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell'I was entranced' Cathy ...Show more
House Of Beckham by Bower, Tom
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"As one of the world’s most famous and influential couples the Beckhams have attained iconic status. The ultimate power couple, David and Victoria have built a billion-dollar global empire through their carefully curated public image. Fans have been captivated for decades now by the glamorous world they ...Show more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: a life by Jane Sherron de Hart
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'A vivid account of a remarkable life' --The Washington Post In this bestselling comprehensive, revelatory biography -- fifteen years of interviews and research in the making -- historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice, her adv ...Show more
Somewhere in the Middle - The Stories I Need to Tell by Geoffrey D'Ombrain
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography
So many stories have come down to me about my remarkable family going right back to escaping from France in an open boat in 1572. There was a great-grandfather who was City Surveyor of the Melbourne Corporation and a remarkable hero, Sir James D'Ombrain, who refused to follow Westminster orders and deli ...Show more
Clear Is the Water - My Grandfather Was Born in Dublin by Geoffrey D'Ombrain
$15.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This book began as an account written during my long journey in 2011 around Ireland with a visit to Berlin. Later, stories from my two previous journeys, 2009 and 2010 were added, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany and England. The book tells of extraordinary meetings with people, unbelievable coincidences a ...Show more