Alice to Prague by Tanya Heaslip
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Outback finds adventure & love
In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic.Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching ...Show more
Only: A Singular Memoir by Caroline Baum
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Only is a painfully honest and entertaining story of an unconventional childhood. It reveals what it feels like to be an only child and the focal point of two people damaged by trauma and tragedy, and the courage it takes to break free from the past and the pull of its secrets. Caroline Baum's poignant ...Show more
My Midsummer Morning by Alastair Humphreys
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits - busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play. In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had never been overseas; had hardly even left the quiet village he grew up in. His idea was to walk t ...Show more
All Happy Families - A Memoir by Jeanne McCulloch
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families. On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble for a wedding at a ...Show more
My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie by Todd Fisher
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A revelatory and touching tribute to the lives of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds written by the person who knew them best, Todd Fisher's poignant memoir is filled with moving stories of growing up among Hollywood royalty and illustrated with never-before-seen photos and memorabilia. In December 2016 ...Show more
Oscariana: Epigrams by Oscar Wilde; Matthew Sturgis (Foreword by)
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1895 Arthur Humphreys - a director of Hatchards and a friend of Oscar Wilde - printed fifty copies of a small eighty-eight-page compendium of Wilde's epigrams, culled from his published works. It was titled Oscariana. The initial selection had been made by Wilde's wife, Constance, but Wilde had not b ...Show more
Princess Ira Von Fürstenberg by Nick Foulkes
132.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A breathtakingly beautiful photo-narrative biography of the incredible life of Princess Ira von F rstenberg - half Austro-Hungarian Princess, half Agnelli: model, actress, princess, socialite, heiress, mother, and jewellery designer.Bursting onto front-page news in 1955 at the age of 15 in a jewel-laden ...Show more
Derek Jarman A Biography by Peake Tony
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
England's most controversial filmmaker and director, Derek Jarman was also a gifted writer, artist, gardener, designer, and an outspoken AIDS and queer rights activist. Jarman's story stretches from his childhood in postwar Britain to art school days at the Slade School of Art and the making of many acc ...Show more
The Young Victoria by Deirdre Murphy
74.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A vivid portrait of Queen Victoria's childhood, offering new insights into one of the most celebrated, but often misunderstood, monarchs in British history, 200 years after her birth This beautiful, extensively researched volume investigates the birth and early life of one of the most familiar British m ...Show more
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Ray: "Readers of “Between you and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen,” will be enchanted by this sequel of sorts. And if you haven’t read "Comma Queen,” you will after finishing “Greek to Me,” and learning how Greek helped Norris, an international literary treasure, come to know the derivation of many Eng ...Show more
I Will Be Cleopatra - An Actress' Journey by Zoe Caldwell
18.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a riveting account of a determined yet modest woman who became one of the leading classical and Broadway actors of our time, working with such luminaries as Paul Robeson, Laurence Olivier, and Tennessee Williams. Born the daughter of a plumber and a taxi dancer in Australia at the height of the ...Show more
The Glossy Years: Selective Memoirs by Nicholas Coleridge; Anon
55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Diana touched your elbow, your arm, covered your hand with hers. It was alluring. And she was disarmingly confiding. "Can I ask you something? Nicholas, please be frank..." Over his thirty-year career at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to ...Show more