Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical ...Show more
Hand to Mouth by Paul Auster
27.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Hand to Mouth is Paul Auster's startling memoir of his career as a young writer - and his accompanying struggle with poverty.
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter; Jane Degras (Translator)
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husb ...Show more
Seven Deadly Sins by Corey Taylor
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so. 1995 was a full 365-day year of drinking, fucking, lying, raging and exploration for me - not a dull one in the bunch. It was a time of self-shit: self-importance, self-absorpti ...Show more
My Own Story: Suffragette by Emmeline Pankhurst
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This work is one of the top biographies written by Emmeline Pankhurst. The closing paragraphs of this book were written in the late summer of 1914, when the armies of every great power in Europe were being mobilised for savage, unsparing, barbarous warfare-against one another, against small and unaggres ...Show more
Leonard My Fifty Year Friendship with a Remarkable by William Shatner
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner first crossed paths as actors on the set of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Little did they know that their next roles, in a new science-fiction television series called Star Trek, would shape their lives in ways no one could have anticipated. In seventy-nine television episode ...Show more
I Was Nearly a Jihadi Bride: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Twenty year-old Mélodie, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria in a life of paradise - and join his jihad. She discovers how ISIS entraps ordinary people, l ...Show more
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: near fine
With an introduction by Simon Callow Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius. Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And wha ...Show more
The Fighter - A True Story by Arnold Zable
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
So it’s come to this. Sixty-seven years old and he labours on the docks. Cropped grey-white beard, ex-boxer’s pug nose, he is wiry, rotund and short. His strength is sensed rather than seen, belied by age and excess weight. Vigour is the word. Henry Nissen exudes vigour. His life force is strong. It ani ...Show more
Outback Midwife by Beth McRae
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Call the Midwifemeets In the Middle of Nowherein this heartwarming memoir of an adventurous Aussie midwife's life 'catching babies'. Outback Midwifeis the story of Beth McRae's 40 years as a midwife, from her terrifying first day witnessing a birth as a na've student nurse to her training as a midwife ...Show more
In Love with These Times: My Life With Flying Nun Records by Roger Shepherd
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
The inside story of New Zealand's iconic independent record label by the man who made it happen. I wanted to be more than just an observer. I wanted to be a part of what was going on. I had told someone and the word was out, and now I had to actually do this thing. Start a record label.I must have been ...Show more
Bloodhound : Searching for My Father by Ramona Koval
23.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
I looked up the name in the phone book and rang the number. I tried to imagine the conversation that might ensue. 'Hello? I was wondering if you're the man who was recently at an auction and asked a woman named Bernadette if I was married and had children and was happy - and if you are, are you my real ...Show more