Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty John Gregory Dunne and Joan ...Show more
The Louder I Will Sing by Lee Lawrence
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the Costa Prize 2020'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British history. Lee's journey and fight for justice are both inspiring and enraging' AKALAWhat would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime again ...Show more
Working Stiff by Judy Melinek; T. J. Mitchell
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Dr Judy Melinek has made a career out of working with dead bodies. As a forensic pathologist, she has probed and prodded corpses for clues that may reveal murder, suicide, a medical accident or a rare genetic disease This fearless memoir tells the gripping story of the young doctor's 'rookie season' as ...Show more
Life and Loves of a He Devil by Graham Norton
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Graham Norton has been entertaining audiences and having fun with some of the world's biggest stars for nearly twenty years. He is loved across the nation for his delight in the peculiar and for his ability to find humour and a common ground in all that life brings. The Life and Loves of a He Devil is G ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
Kobe: Life Lessons from a Legend by Nelson Peña
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Life Lessons from a Legend Ser.
Sports legend Kobe Bryant’s guiding principles.Nelson Peña's Kobe: Life Lessons from a Legend offers court-side seats to the breathtaking highs and game-changing lows of Kobe Bryant’s life and reveals valuable insights for anyone who wants to make their own lofty dreams come true. Kobe Bryant’s incredib ...Show more
The Story of a Life - Volumes 1-3 by Konstantin Paustovsky
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation.'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph'One of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it was written - and the day it was lived' Julian Ba ...Show more
A Woman in Berlin - Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 by Anonymous; Antony Beevor (Introduction)
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
* A startling account of a German survivor of the Second World War. 'One of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat' Antony Beevor 'One of the most extraordinary and moving books I have ever read' Antonia Fraser
Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
"Compelling. Brilliant. Revealing. Funny. Inspirational. Extraordinary. Sir Richard Branson s amazing memoir is now updated to include the effect on the Virgin Group of 11 September, his views on the war in Iraq, the rise of Virgin Blue and the flotation of Virgin Mobile. Discover how Virgin is moving i ...Show more
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Almost everything we know about the terrible experience of the Gulag has been based on survivor memoirs, in many cases written decades later. For obvious reasons there is very little authentic, contemporary material. "Just Send Me Word" is a uniquely powerful and moving experience. It is the story of th ...Show more
Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Ever since I was thirteen years old, all I wanted to do was perform. It was an unusual dream for a kid from the Northern Territory to have ... what I wanted for my life was a world away from what people knew and loved about the "Top End". Even though I've moved south to become an actor, the Territory h ...Show more