Elli - Coming of Age in the Holocaust by Livia E. Bitton Jackson
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel From her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken - at a time when most girls are growing up, having boyfriends and embarking upon the ...Show more
The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five by Tom Roston
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Books about Bks.
Kurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then transferred to a work camp near Dresden, and held in a slau ...Show more
Spanian: The Unfiltered Hood Life by Spanian
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
By the time he was twelve, Spanian knew he would follow his family's footsteps to become a career criminal. What followed was a decade-long string of brazen crimes and brutal violence: stabbings, ram-raids, drug runs and a notorious high school siege. Throughout the Sydney social housing enclaves of Red ...Show more
Munkey Diaries 1957-1982 (PB) by Jane Birkin
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
'Birkin's diary entries ultimately expose the toxic reality behind one of the 20th century's most glamorous couples' Sunday Times Jane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - attained international fame with her decade-long musical and personal relationship with Serge Gainsbourg that featured the ...Show more
The Greatest Feeling in the World by Tim Sattler-Jones, Rod Sattler-Jones
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Tim and Rod grew up a few suburbs from each other in Newcastle, NSW. They were gay but their worlds were not. Before they found each other they were alone and miserable, marooned in a sea of impossible expectations. Rod was shackled by a conservative Christian upbringing, while Tim felt unmanly and infe ...Show more
Albert Camus and the Human Crisis by Robert E. Meagher
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus's life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, "cannot live without dialogue and friendship." As France--and all of the world--was emerging from t ...Show more
The Prisoner: A Memoir by Hwang Sok-Yong
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well-known for his part in the de ...Show more
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A scorching memoir of an undocumented childhood, and what it means to live an invisible lifeWhen 7-year old Qian moves to Mei Guo with her mother she doesn't know what to expect from the place, otherwise known as America, that translates to 'Beautiful Country'. In China she was the daughter of Professor ...Show more
Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography by Limmy
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The hysterical, shocking and incredibly intimate memoir from one of the most original and unique comedians alive today. Hello! I’m Brian Limond, aka Limmy. You might know me from Limmy’s Show. Or you might not know me at all. Don’t worry if you don’t. They asked me to write a book about mental health, ...Show more
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack: More than a Bauhaus artist by Resi Schwarzbauer
60.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Biography of emigré artist Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
Prince Philip 1921-2021: A Celebration by Deborah Clarke, Sally Goodsir
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This souvenir publication celebrates the remarkable 99-year life of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, Britain's longest serving consort. Drawing on private archives as well as official records, the book explores the major events in Prince Philip's life, from his birth in Corfu, hi ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale (PB) by Martin Latham
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with ...Show more