The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, tradit ...Show more
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog by Susan Orlean
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Rin Tin Tin was born on a battlefield in France towards the end of WW1. He died in 1932, supposedly in the arms of Jean Harlow, the original 'blonde bombshell', epic in death as he was in life. In his prime, he was one of Hollywood's biggest stars. He received two thousand fan letters a month, had jewel ...Show more
Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son by Penny Junor
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the Prince Harry you've never read about before. Published in celebration of his thirtieth birthday, this is the story behind the tabloid stories. The Prince who has the power to make or break. The maverick Prince, who is brilliant, impetuous and unpredictable. The Prince who with his unique tal ...Show more
A Daughter of Isis - The Early Life of Nawal el Saadawi, in Her Own Words by Nawal El Saadawi
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic exper ...Show more
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the ...Show more
The Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys by Jenny Nordberg
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is the only way to get ahead. Nordberg follows women such as Azita Rafaat, a parliament ...Show more
Before & After: The Incredible Story of the Real-life Mrs Wilson by Alison Wilson
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: BEFORE & AFTER
Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In 1940, whilst working as a secretary at MI6, Alison met Alexander Wilson. Thirty years her senior, Alexander was worldly and charismatic. An intense affair quickly led to ...Show more
The Insider by Christopher Pyne
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Christopher Pyne has been many things and called many things throughout his long career in politics. Member for Sturt. Minister for Defence. Manager of Opposition Business. Leader of the House. 'The Fixer'. Any Canberra story he doesn't know isn't worth telling. Now, after 26 years, the ultimate ins ...Show more
Finding Freedom: Harry And Meghan And The Making Of A Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world's attention and sparked an international media frenzy. But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines – from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son ...Show more
Drugs, Guns and Lies: My Life As an Undercover Cop by Keith Banks (with Ben Smith)
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The Age Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to kee ...Show more
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prol ...Show more
Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Emmett de Monterey
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Category: Biography & Memoir
AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDON When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.Growing up in south-east Lon ...Show more