Beyond Veiled Cliches by Amal Awad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Magnificent. Surprising. Illuminating. Australia needs this book.NIKKI GEMMELLAs someone who has a foot in both the Western and Arabic worlds, Amal set out to explore the lives of Arab women, in Australia and the Middle East, travelling to the region and interviewing more than sixty women about feminism ...Show more
Down the Dirt Roads by Rachael Treasure
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'For me, being in a paddock means anything is possible . . .' Country girl and bestselling novelist Rachael Treasure had worked hard to build a long-dreamed-of lifestyle on her own patch of dirt in Tasmania's rugged and beautiful wilderness. But through the breakdown of her marriage, Rachael lost her fa ...Show more
The Duchess by Penny Junor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The last untold account of the biggest crisis to hit the royals since the abdication ... Explosive biography by Britain's top royal author ... A gripping story of human frailty, love, loss, sadness, and tragedy' Daily MailThe relationship between Charles, Prince of Wales a ...Show more
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse by Paul Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A take no prisoners' approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization, and reason.
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has be ...Show more
First they killed My Father by Loung Ung
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A daughter of Cambodia remembers. Soon to be a Netflix original movie directed by Angelina Jolie. Until age five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of an educated, high-ranking government official. When the Khmer Rouge stormed the city in 1975, the young girl and her family fled from ...Show more
Freud: In His Time and Ours by Elisabeth Roudinesco
$84.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Elisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud s biography for the twenty-first century a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood ...Show more
Gamekeeper by Portia Simpson
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The H is for Hawk for lovers of the outdoors and wildlife. A fascinating memoir of Scotland's first ever qualified female gamekeeper. Portia Simpson grew up outdoors, always preferring to climb trees than play with Barbie dolls. Talented and driven, she became the first female to graduate as a Gamekeepe ...Show more
Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She is a Hit in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A radical look at Jane Austen as you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. Jane's World celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A collection of Bennett's diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett's third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories. Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one ...Show more
Life Force by Barry du Bois; Miguel Maestre (As told to); Amanda Keller (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Barry du Bois shares an incredible story that is heart-breaking and life-affirming in equal measures. Faced with the recurrence of his incurable cancer Channel 10's The Living Room's building and design expert Barry Du Bois leaves nothing to chance as he embraces a do-or-die treatment to extend his time ...Show more
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned.Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This is ...Show more