Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning autho ...Show more
Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures among the Powerful by Daniel Levin
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening exploration of the human weakness for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world of our global elites, drawing unforgettable sketche ...Show more
How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America. That's all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets: I was a drug addict, for one. A pillhead. I was also an alcoholic-in-training who guzzled warm Veu ...Show more
Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Im Milo, the most fabulous supervillain on the internet and the most effective counterculture warrior since Andrew Breitbart maybe ever! and this book tells you how to fi ght back against campus commies, their enabling professors, the mainstream media, and establishment Republican bores... and win. Read ...Show more
Trumpets from the Steep by Diana Cooper
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lady Diana Cooper's Autobiography Ser.
This last volume of Lady Diana Cooper's memoirs covers the years of the Second World War and its aftermath, when her husband Duff Cooper served as Minister of Information and then in various diplomat posts around the world. We accompany the Coopers on their travels from the Dorchester Hotel during the b ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'This book has found a special place in my heart. It's as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it' HELEN MACDONALD, author of H IS FOR HAWK'Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings ... Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer and ...Show more
Vodka and Apple Juice - Travels of an Undiplomatic Wife in Poland by Jay Martin
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Jay's husband lands a diplomatic job in Warsaw, she jumps at the chance to escape a predictable life in Canberra for adventure in the heart of central Europe. From glamorous cocktail parties and dining with presidents, to snowy sleigh rides and drinking vodka in smoky bars, Jay is thrown into all t ...Show more
Warren Mundine in Black and White by Warren Mundine
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Overcoming segregation, discrimination, personal hardship and political betrayal...... Nyunggai Warren Mundine tells it all in black and white. Warre' s raw, intimate success story shines a bright and inspiring light showing there is no limit to what you can achieve. His curriculum vitae runs into pages ...Show more
Cancerland - A Medical Memoir by David T. Scadden; Michael D'Antonio
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An Amazon Best of the Month Book"For all the insight he offers into the hard science and thorny logistics of studying cancer, Dr. Scadden's most moving passages consider the effect of the disease on the people who suffer from it and those who care for them." --The Wall Street JournalA doctor's riveting ...Show more
Stranger in a Strange Land - Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem by George Prochnik
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem--the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah--Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel ...Show more
Heart Berries - A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
*New York Times Bestseller*National Bestseller*Finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction*Named one of the most anticipated books of 2018 by: Chatelaine, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Huffington Post, B*tch, NYLON, BuzzFeed, Bustle, The Rumpus and Goodre ...Show more
Sherlock - Great Lives in Graphic Form by V. I. V. CROOT
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Sherlock Holmes was an enigmatic detective who, with his companion Dr. Watson, pursued criminals through Victorian and Edwardian England. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he investigated 60 fully documented cases, including 37 murders; that 46 of those cases began in his offi ...Show more