JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece- 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the ...Show more
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scien ...Show more
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How to be an older woman? Who knows. Being a young woman can be challenging. But it turns out not even a fraction of the bullshit has happened to you by the time you turn thirty. Because your thirties, forties and beyond see you dealing with Real Life, the stuff you never thought would happen to you- gr ...Show more
The Mountbattens by Andrew Lownie
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A new biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, from award-winning author Andrew Lownie.
Well Hello: Meanderings from the world of Chat 10 Looks 3 by Leigh Sales
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the hit podcast Chat 10 Looks 3 comes a smart, hilarious and heartfelt book about friendship, the vagaries of life and culture, and everything in between. In 2014, two of Australia's most high-profile journalists sat at a kitchen table, hit record on a phone and started a rambling conversation tha ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer It's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in ...Show more
True Friends by Patti Miller
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A revealing and relatable memoir about the making and unmaking of friendships. 'It's hard to know exactly when the friendship with Gina ended. It could have been when the sudden text message from her arrived, or it could have been a slow slide out of favour that I willed myself not to see. What matters ...Show more
Inventory Of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOWInventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 194 ...Show more
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown by Craig Brown
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on SundayMixing parody, literary criticism, profiles, satire, light ve ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 by Stella Rimington
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The story of the woman who rose to be Director-General of Britain's Security Service, MI5, in a career that lasted from 1969 to 1996. Stella Rimington worked to Director level in all main fields of the Service's responsibilities, counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. During her ...Show more
Daniel Craig - The Biography by Sarah Marshall
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The biography of James Bond icon Daniel Craig.