A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyány; Anthea Bell (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart,revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War In the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batt ...Show more
Painting the Sand by Kim Hughes
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a book about science, bombs and what happens to the human psyche when every day you go to work might be your last. Kim Hughes is the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army. He was awarded the George Cross in 2009 following a gruelling six-month tour of duty in ...Show more
A Clear Blue Sky by Jonny Bairstow; Duncan Hamilton
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR Daily MailAs a young boy of eight, Jonny Bairstow was dealt a cruel blow. His father David 'Bluey' Bairstow, the combative and very popular wicketkeeper and captain of Yorkshire, took his own life at the age of forty-six. David left behind Jonny, Jonny's sister Becky and half ...Show more
Going to the Mountain - Life Lessons from Nelson Mandela by Ndaba Mandela
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'You empower yourself and then you reach out to others.?Uplifting life lessons from one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known... through the eyes of the grandson whose life he changed forever.In his book Going to the Mountain, Ndaba Mandela shares the story of his coming-of-age alongside Sout ...Show more
Adrift by Tami Oldham Ashcraft
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
New York Times Bestseller The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest). "An inspirational and empowering read."--Shailene Woodley Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fi ...Show more
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
People Pick - O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now - Vanity Fair Hot Type - Glamour New Book You're Guaranteed to Love This Summer - LitHub.com Best Book about Books - Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This Summer - Seattle Times Book for Summer Reading - Warby Parker Blog Book Pick - Google Talks - Harper's Ba ...Show more
Ah Well, Nobody's Perfect: The untold stories by Molly Meldrum
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
These things happen to Molly: magic coincidences, fateful happenings' - Daryl Somers There was once a boy from Quambatook called Ian Meldrum, who moved to the big city, got a job in a bank, and then became Molly, a music legend, writing for Go-Set, producing 'The Real Thing' and providing the soundtrack ...Show more
From the Corner of the Oval Office by Rebecca Dorey-Stein
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington DC when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. The ultimate DC outsider, she joined the elite team who accompanied the president wherever he went, recorder and mic in hand. On ...Show more
Big Pig, Little Pig: A Year on a Smallholding in South-West France by Jacqueline Yallop
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A love story, a meditation on meat eating, on farming animals, on the relations between man and beast. Yallop writes with great tenderness' Daily Telegraph On her fortieth birthday Jacqueline Yallop built a pig sty in rural south-west France. She and her husband Ed had decided to turn their Aveyron cot ...Show more
Girl Boy Girl: how I became JT Leroy by Savannah Knoop
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In Girl Boy Girl, Knoop tells her side of the story, revealing how she came to portray the young trans hustler turned literary wunderkind - a persona created by her sister-in-law, Laura Albert, to help sell her books. Much more than an inside look at one of the most famous literary hoaxes of all time, t ...Show more
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers. On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he woul ...Show more
Queen Victoria - Daughter, Wife, Mother and Widow by Lucy Worsley
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Such a brilliant idea! Drilling down into Victoria's diaries Worsley gives us Victoria in all her infinite variety - queen and mother, matriarch and minx...I loved it.' Daisy Goodwin, author, and creator of ITV's Victoria 'The glory of this book is in the details, and the specific moments, that Worsle ...Show more