You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. What matters most in life? How do you build a happy life when terrible things happen? What is left behind when you lose the person you love the most? One night last winter, Antoine Leiris was at home looking after his son while his wife, Helene, was at a concert with friend ...Show more
My First Memory by Ben Holden
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
WHAT IS YOUR FIRST MEMORY? Or, rather, what do you imagine to be your earliest memory? Perhaps, alternatively, there was a moment during childhood when the world's axis shifted? A transformative realisation, epiphany or experience that changed the course of your life: your very own 'sense of a begin ...Show more
The Unpunished Vice - A Life of Reading by Edmund White
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader. Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened ...Show more
Four Friends - Promising Lives Cut Short by William D. Cohan
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kennedy, Jr. among them, by their fellow Andover classmate, New York Times bestselling author William D. Cohan. In his masterful pieces for Vanity Fair and in his bestselling books, William D. Cohan has prove ...Show more
Elvis in Vegas by Richard Zoglin
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal overdose. B ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the "Periodic Table", Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pai ...Show more
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Tom Segev's meticulously researched and most elegantly written new biography of David Ben-Gurion is a must for anybody interested in both the glorious and the dark pages of the history of Zionism and Israel, as reflected throughout the life and times of the Jewish State's most important founding father ...Show more
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A funny and brutally honest book about what it means to be a woman and what it takes to be a creator, She Wants It is deeply personal but always universal in its unapologetic recounting of a life lived and raw talent shared. Good. Detailed. Honest. Needed' - Amy Poehler One morning, half-awake in a sha ...Show more
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. No one has lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime ...Show more
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? A Powerful Story of Love and Survival by Horace Greasley
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The incredible true story of how of one British soldier escaped a prisoner war camp 200 times to see the girl he loved.
Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography by Blanche d'Alpuget
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
To mark Bob Hawke's extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of the man in full in a definitive hardback commemorative biography. Bob Hawke began life as a good Christian boy from a teetotal family, became a wild, drinking, womanising student, a Rhodes Scholar, a cha ...Show more
Riding with Giants by Peter Holmes à Court
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 2011, international businessman Peter Holmes Court left the executive world and found himself living deep in rural France with only his seven-year-old twin girls for company. Peter was struggling as a single father in a foreign country - unsettled by the sudden move away from a traditional job, and c ...Show more