Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Helen Elliott’s Eleven Letters to You is a profoundly original memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, before feminism. This sparkling, wonderfully absorbing book is written in the form of eleven letters to those neighbours, relatives, friends, ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'One of the most remarkable books I have ever read' Susan Jeffers One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, thi ...Show more
Big Love: Reclaiming myself, my people, my country by Brooke Blurton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities My story is about the one thing that I never went without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like there was a future for me. The kin ...Show more
Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius by Dermot Turing
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. His codebreaking work at Bletchley Park was so significant it helped to shorten the Second World War, and with Tommy Flowers he built the first compu ...Show more
I Shot Daddy: She Killed Her Father to Protect Her Sister by Stacey Lannert
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On July 4, 1990, eighteen-year-old Stacey Lannert shot and killed her father, who had been sexually and emotionally abusing her since she was eight. She suffered terrifying abuse at the hands of her unstable, alcoholic father for ten years until the night she realised he was turning his attention toward ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more
Rescue Pilot: Cheating the Sea by Jerry Grayson
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography
Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the Navy's Search and Rescue pilots, getting to work is both an adventure and a ...Show more
Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all...' At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top sell ...Show more
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Susan Dworkin; Edith H. Beer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged ...Show more
The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of mor ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher - The Authorised Biography Volume Two by Charles Moore
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Margaret Thatcher Biography Ser.
The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of h ...Show more