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
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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
The World of the Tudors: A Jigsaw Puzzle with 50 Historical Figures to Find by Elizabeth Norton
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: World of... Puzzles Ser.
From the Wars of the Roses through plagues, cunning plots, executions and more, the Tudor period is the most dramatic and turbulent in English history. Journey through time to find Henry VIII's six wives, Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake and other famous figures as you build this detailed 1000-piece puzzl ...Show more
A Woman in Berlin - Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 by Anonymous; Antony Beevor (Introduction)
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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
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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
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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
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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
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Hitler Biographies Ser.
'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'There will never be a definitive life of Hitler. The subject is too vast, the man too contradictory and the sources unmanageable. But Volker Ullrich's biography comes as close as we can reaso ...Show more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: a life by Jane Sherron de Hart
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'A vivid account of a remarkable life' --The Washington Post In this bestselling comprehensive, revelatory biography -- fifteen years of interviews and research in the making -- historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice, her adv ...Show more
Bookworm - A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.She was whisked away to Narnia - and Kirrin Island - and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. No wonder she only le ...Show more
Heiresses : The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress – glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating – from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. 'Life is less sad with money', said Emerald Cunard; Barbara Hutton was the 'Poor Little Rich Girl', but which is true? Laura Thompson explores the phenomen ...Show more