Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Åsne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation. Her latest work is haunting, luminously written and compelling. A brilliant book. Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its ...Show more
And the Rest Is Yours - A Story of Love, Loss and Resilience by George Szego
25.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
His ninetieth year just behind him, former psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor George Szego reflects on the mysteries of grief, loss and desire. "Sentenced to life" by the Nazis at the age of sixteen, Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor George would go on to marry his childhood sweetheart, a fellow Hungarian J ...Show more
Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Nicola Tallis, one of our great popular historians.' Alison WeirThe first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era.Cousin to Elizabeth I - and very likely also Henry VIII's illegitimate granddaughter - Lettice Knollys had a life of dizzying highs and pitiful ...Show more
Failure Is an Option - An Attempted Memoir by H. Jon Benjamin
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Writing this funny requires immense talent." -AV Club H. Jon Benjamin-the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers-helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure. Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show busin ...Show more
Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life by Guy Kawasaki
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life and the lessons we can draw from them. Guy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple's original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He's widely respected as a source of wisdom abou ...Show more
More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own terms Throughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way ...Show more
Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history?s most venerated military and religious heroes opens a window on the Islamic and Christian worlds? complex relationship.When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, returning the Holy ...Show more
Mama's Boy: A Memoir by Dustin Lance Black
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'To outsiders, my mom and I should have been enemies. Our house should have been divided -- North vs South, red vs blue, conservative vs progressive, or however you want to put it. Instead, my mom and I fuelled each other. Her oil lit my lamp, and eventually mine lit hers. The tools I'd learned to wiel ...Show more
Heida: A Shepherd at the Edge of the World by Steinunn Siguroardottir
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Icelandic Sheep Farmer fighting an energy company | Reading Level: very good
I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. I've been made every offer imaginable over the years. Men offer themselves, their sons...drunk fathers sometimes call me up and say things like: "Do you need a farmhand?" "I can lift the hay ba ...Show more
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen MATTHEWS
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge the man John le Carre called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and ...Show more
Socrates in Love - The Making of a Philosopher by Armand D'Angour
37.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers.Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the foundations of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athen ...Show more
Groucho Marx - The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee S ...Show more