Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-cha ...Show more
The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The unforgettable memoir that redefines ‘she’ll be right’. What’s it like to grow up in an Aussie family that has a man of every flavour? A bank robber, an infamous sports umpire, several different breeds of drug addict (collect the whole set!), a roster of crafty swindlers, an attempted murderer and th ...Show more
The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains i ...Show more
Walking With Ghosts - A Memoir by Gabriel Byrne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.'Make no mistake about it: this is a masterpiece . . . poetic, moving and very funny' -- Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World SpinAs a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel B ...Show more
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston ...Show more
Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
On a dark night in Provence in December 1888 Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is an act that has come to define him. Yet for more than a century biographers and historians seeking definitive facts about what happened that night have been left with more questions than answers. In Van Gogh's Ear Berna ...Show more
A Tale of Love and Darkness (US PB) by Amos Oz
$29.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and ...Show more
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. Spectator Book of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. 'Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ...shrewd, thorough, revelatory.' William Boyd ' ...Show more
The Other Mitford Pamela's Story by Diana Alexander
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Pamela Jackson, nee Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, yet her story is just as captivating, and more revealing. Despite shunning the bright city lights that her sisters so desperately craved, she was very much involved in the activities of her extraordinary fam ...Show more
The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carre
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, ...Show more
The Hero Maker: A Biography of Paul Brickhill by Stephen Dando-Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Dam Busters, The Great Escapeand Reach for the Skywere all written by Paul Brickhill, an Australian hero of WWII. 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 25th anniversary of his death.It was 1956 and the writer from Sydney's lower North Shore had every reason to feel blessed. Former jo ...Show more