The Director - My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover by Paul Letersky; Gordon L. Dillow (As told to)
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first book ever written about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by a member of his personal staff--his former assistant, Paul Letersky--The Director offers unprecedented insight into an American legend.The 1960s and 1970s were arguably among America's most turbulent post-Civil War decades. While the Viet ...Show more
The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir (HB) by Anh Do
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days - could ...Show more
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of living with and dying from AIDS. A New York Times Book of the Year After being diagnosed with AIDS, Herve Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultima ...Show more
The Accidental Teacher by Tim Heath
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Funny, poignant, charming and deeply sad at times, this is a beautifully written story of a life in teaching. Tim Heath taught for about 40 years, mostly in New Zealand but also in Samoa, in small country schools, in big city schools, at the Correspondence School, in primary schools and secondary school ...Show more
Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds At Once by Phil Wang
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'But where are you REALLY from?' Phil Wang has been asked this question so many times he's finally written a book about it. In this mix of comic memoir and observational essay, one of the UK's most exciting stand-up comedians reflects on his experiences as a Eurasian man in the West and in the East. P ...Show more
Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made My Family Stronger, Happier ... and Less American by Damien Cave
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Damien Cave brought his young family to Sydney to set up the New York Times' Australian Bureau, they encountered the local pursuits of Nippers and surfing - and a completely different approach to risk that changed the way they lived their lives.Damien Cave has always been fascinated by risk. Having ...Show more
Red Roulette - An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st century China and whose wife was disappeared - and then mysteriously rea ...Show more
These Fevered Days - Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by Martha Ackmann
27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready"--and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely "at home" (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson's interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionatel ...Show more
Abe - Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds
105.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From one of the great historians of nineteenth-century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of Lincoln , many years in the making, that brings him to life within his turbulent age David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other ic ...Show more
The Price of Peace - Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the transformative ideas that outlived him At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law's motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that ...Show more
The Audacity by Katherine Ryan
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the star of The Duchess and the host of 'Telling Everybody Everything', the debut book from superstar comedian Katherine Ryan. 'While I've been very blessed to have worked in comedy for over a decade, The Audacity gives me the opportunity to connect with people more fully and honestly than a panel ...Show more
The Silence Between Us: A Mother and Daughter’s Conversation Through Suicide and into Life by Oceane Campbell, Cécile Barral
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Silence Between Us is a raw and original double memoir tracing a mother and daughter as they try to understand and rebuild their relationship after the daughter's suicide attempt. Because Oceane had just turned eighteen when she tried to end her life, the hospital had to respect her request: to not ...Show more