Piety and Power - Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House by Tom LoBianco
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A revealing, in-depth biography of Mike Pence, the most secretive and ingratiating vice president in modern history, from a reporter with remarkable access. No journalist has covered Mike Pence for as long or as closely as Tom LoBianco. The seasoned political reporter was at the first campaign rally gov ...Show more
Little Labours by Rivka Galchen
16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies. 'Beguiling ... A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios ... A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.' Boston Globe One August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka ...Show more
Talk of Treasure: Words on Writing, Meditation and Life by Jane Carswell
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Jane Carswell began her working life at Pegasus Press shortly after its audacious publication of Janet Frame's novel Owls Do Cry, and years later she went on to write an award-winning memoir called Under the Huang Jiao Tree: Two journeys in China.The road between one book and the other was paved with bo ...Show more
Ataturk by Andrew Mango
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An examination of the founding father of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The author strips away the myth to the man beneath: his high ideals and ruthless tactics; his championship of women's rights; his nationalism; and his drinking bouts and the strange theories they produced.
Maid - Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. 'My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.' As a struggling single m ...Show more
When the Dogs Don't Bark a Forensic Scientist's Search for the Truth by Angela Gallop
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Mentors: How to Help and be Helped by Russell Brand
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 4
Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself? Mentors - the follow up to Sunday Times number one bestseller, Recovery - describes the benefits of seeking and offering help. 'I have mentors in every area of my life, as a comic, a dad, a recovering drug addict, a spiritu ...Show more
I'm Writing You from Tehran - A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future by Delphine Minoui; Emma Ramadan (Translator)
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Suffering the recent loss of her beloved grandfather and newly committed to a career in journalism, Delphine Minoui decided to visit Iran for the first time since the revolution--since she was four years old. It was 1998. She would stay for ten years. In the course of that decade, great change comes to ...Show more
Brave by Rose McGowan
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." -Rose McGowan A revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - A voice for generations Rose McGowan was born in one cult a ...Show more
What Doesn't Kill You Makes you Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America. For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme ...Show more
Warrior Elite by Robert Macklin
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A compelling account of Australia's intelligence organisations and special forces - from the early days of the commandos during World War II through to the SAS of today and the cyber wars of the future. From the co-author of SAS Sniper. Warrior Elite is a unique and compelling account of Australia's spe ...Show more
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa by Joseph Farrell
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's tre ...Show more