Farewell to the Father by Timothy Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Tim Elliott's story - on his father and love against the odds - will split your heart open." Benjamin Law Towards the end of his first serious suicide attempts, my father said the strangest thing to me...Growing up in 1970s Sydney, Tim Elliott had a loving stay-at-home mum, a professional father, three ...Show more
Finding A Way by Graeme Innes
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
I learned from my family that most things could be achieved - the challenge was finding a way. Blind from birth, Graeme Innes was blessed. Blessed because he had a family who refused to view his blindness as a handicap and who instilled in him a belief in his own abilities. Blessed because he had the de ...Show more
Finding Valentino by Angela di Sciascio
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Valentino Di Sciascio can no longer describe his past or his culture, and his family's heritage may be lost to the ravages of Alzheimer's disease.
Freedom by Jaycee Dugard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Freedom: My Book of Firsts, a memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard, the bestselling author of A Stolen Life, whose widely acclaimed account of being kidnapped at age 11 and remaining a prisoner for 18 years became an international bestseller in 2011. The kidnapping of Ms. Dugard occurred on June 10, 1991 in Sout ...Show more
The House on the Hill by Susan Duncan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The third and final memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek. In this memoir, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there's no point in sweating long-term ramifications. There aren't any. This new understanding delivers an unexpected bonus u the emotional freedo ...Show more
How I Met Your Father by Aminah Hart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Born in London to an Australian mother and West Indian father, Aminah Hart was brought up in Melbourne by her gutsy single mum, Helen, and devoted grandparents. Despite their loving embrace, she grew into a rebellious teenager only too aware of racial and social prejudice. By her early thirties Aminah s ...Show more
I Knew You'd Have Brown Eyes (Finch Memoir Prize Winner 2016) by Mary Tennant
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I Knew You’d Have Brown Eyes charts the journey of mother and child from an unhappy parting at birth through the changing of Australia’s adoption laws and a bitter-sweet reunification that stopped, stuttered and restarted before finally becoming a relationship. Spanning forty years and set against a ba ...Show more
Ink in Her Veins The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer by Sylvia Martin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Aileen Palmer - poet, translator, political activist, adventurer - was the daughter of two writers prominent in Australian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Vance and Nettie Palmer were well known as novelists, poets, critics and journalists, and Nettie suspected that their eldest w ...Show more
The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity by Puk Damsgard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held prisoner by Islamic State for thirteen months, along with eighteen other hostages. The ISIS Hostage tells the dramatic and heart-breaking story of Daniel's ordeal and details the misery inflicted upon him by the British guards ...Show more
Kiffy Rubbo: Curating the 1970s by Janine Burke; Helen Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"How one woman helped shape the Australian art world. Kiffy Rubbo was a dynamic and unique force in Australian art in the 1970s. It was the time of 'the personal is political', of the Vietnam War and the draft, of Indigenous rights and feminism. It was under Kiffy Rubbo's leadership - and at a time when ...Show more
Life of a Sailor by Frederick Chamier
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Seafarers' Voices
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of t ...Show more
Making it Up as I Go Along by Marian Keyes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Welcome to the magnificent Making It Up as I Go Along - aka the World According to Marian Keyes(TM) - A bold, brilliant book bursting with Marian's hilarious and heartfelt observations on modern life, love and much, much else besides. Such as? you are determined to ask. Well, how about her guide to brea ...Show more