Kilvert's Diary by William Plomer
12.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a selection edited and introduced by william plomer. Francis Kilvert was an country clergyman who lived from 1840 to 1879, and these are his diaries: gossipy, sweet-natured, generous, curious, and full of an abiding wonder and delight in the natural world and the beauties of the changing seasons ...Show more
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Volume II of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks from 1964-1980.Providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, Susan Sontag's As Conscious is Harnessed to Fleshchronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at ...Show more
Second Suns by David Oliver Relin
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project. Tabin was the high-achie ...Show more
Amazing Aussie Bastards by LAWRENCE MONEY
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Amazing bastard (colloquial), n: a bloke who does stuff that other bastards wouldn't try in a month of Sundays We've all met them, or at least read about them - men who drive faster, climb higher, build and invent and triumph over impossible odds. Journalist Lawrence Money has assembled a collection of ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
With new cover by urban artist Shepard Fairey. To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. By day, he tra ...Show more
Survivor On The River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway by Reg Twigg
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Reg Twigg is one of the last men standing from a forgotten war. Called up in 1940, he expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history - the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from o ...Show more
Cook: From Sailor To Legend by Rob Mundle
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the 18th century, Cook unravelled the centuries-old mystery surrounding the existence of Terra Australis Incognita - the great south land; became th ...Show more
Twiggy : The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forrest by Andrew Burrell
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The swashbuckling West Australian entrepreneur Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest took on mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto at their own game - and won. In this unauthorised biography, Andrew Burrell traces Twiggy's business triumphs and disasters to reveal the complicated man behind the myth. Why do his mi ...Show more
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by The Guardian
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
New and Updated edition - It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in North Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. ...Show more
The Poet's Wife by Mandy Sayer
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Even though we'd grown up in vastly different cultures and countries, we'd both known poverty, domestic violence and the expectation that neither one of us would ever amount to anything. That was probably what united us more than anything: our shared defiance of that prediction." She tap-danced on stre ...Show more
Not That Kind of Girl - A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned by Lena Dunham
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Lena Dunham, acclaimed writer-director-star of HBO and Sky Atlantic's 'Girls' and the award-winning movie 'Tiny Furniture', displays her unique powers of observation, wisdom and humour in this exceptional collection of essays. "If I could take what I've learned and make one menial job easier for you, or ...Show more
How to be Champion by Sarah Millican
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Sarah Millican is never less than belly-laugh hilarious' Mirror'An iron fist in a marigold glove' Guardian'Wonderfully wrong... incredibly funny' MetroPart autobiography, part self help, part confession, part celebration of being a common-or-garden woman, part collection of synonyms for nunny, Sarah Mi ...Show more