Stepladder to Hindsight by Richard Freadman
19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Stepladder to Hindsight is about a fascinating man who has reached a turning point in his life and looks back. In this work, renowned academic and life-writer Richard Freadman turns the pen on himself, producing an immensely compelling narrative of his life. Elegant and richly self-aware, Stepladder to ...Show more
My Life as a Jew by Michael Gawenda
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A multi-award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of a major Australian newspaper searingly explores his Jewish identity at a time when a substantial - and growing - part of the left is opposed to the very existence of Israel as a Jewish state. Born in a displaced persons' camp two years afte ...Show more
The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys by Melinda Ham
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist Melinda Ham. Following the narratives of new Australians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Tibet, Vietnam and Zaire, The Lucky Ones is a testament to human resilience and the power of new beginnings. For fans of Th ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Ambition and Betrayal (PB) by Laurence Leamer
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'DREAM HOLIDAY READING....I ENJOYED LEAMER'S BOOK A LOT.' SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY PERFECT POOLSIDE READING AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE MINI-SERIES.' THE TIMES'BARRELING AND WELL-RESEARCHED.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A JUICY, ENGAGING READ.' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, th ...Show more
Mood. A memoir of love, identity & mental health by Roz Bellamy
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Mood is a memoir that perfectly suits our times, and our collective journey to understand how we are shaped by our identities. It is a testament to hard-won growth through self-knowledge. Roz Bellamy is a first-generation Jewish Australian who identifies as non-binary. They met their wife, Rachel, as ...Show more
Wild Love: The ambitions of Adelaide Ironside by Kiera Lindsey
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Kiera Lindsey uncovers the life of the talented and exuberant colonial painter Adelaide Ironside, following in her footsteps from the shores of Sydney harbour to the leading artistic circles of Europe. Colonial lasses were expected to marry at 16, but she wanted to be an artist, not a wife, and she had ...Show more
Home to Biloela: The Story of the Tamil Family that Captured Our Hearts by Priya Nadesalingam, Rebekah Holt
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The dramatic inside story of the Tamil refugee family which became a cause clbre all around Australia, and the epic fight by a small rural community to set them free. It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumping on the front door signalled the start of a four-year odyssey that would ca ...Show more
I'm Liz Hayes by Liz Hayes
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Liz Hayes has graced our television screens for more than four decades. Millions of Australians kicked off their weeks with Liz co-hosting Channel 9's Today show, and now for over 25 years have settled into their Sunday nights to watch her investigative journalism on 60 Minutes. From camping in grizzly ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
Bernardine's Shanghai Salon - The Story of the Doyenne of Old China by Susan Blumberg-Kason
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Meet the Jewish salon host in 1930s Shanghai who brought together Chinese and expats around the arts as civil war erupted and World War II loomed on the horizon.Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shanghai in 1929 to marry her fourth husband. Only thirty-three years old, she found herself in a time and pl ...Show more
The Strength of Hope: A Holocaust Survivor's Guide to Love and Life by Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
97-year-old Abram Goldberg is a beacon of positivity, and lives with a joy and optimism that could not more starkly contrast with his experience in the Holocaust. One of the most uplifting stories you will ever read. Abram Goldberg is a beacon of joy and optimism, and a master of keeping perspective. ...Show more