Tough Women Adventure Stories - Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination by Jenny Tough (ed.)
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
It's time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being physically fit and mentally resilient. Perhaps it's doing something no one else has done before. Perhaps it's breaking down boundaries and proving what you can do, in spite of the naysayers. Perhaps it's tr ...Show more
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messud's inquiry into th ...Show more
Eric Hobsbawm: a Life in History by Richard J. Evans
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into more than fifty languages and he was as well known in Brazil and Italy as he was in Britain and the United States. His writings have had a huge and lasting effe ...Show more
Raising Trump by Ivana Trump
40.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ivana Trump reflects on her extraordinary life and the raising of her three children--Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka--and recounts the lessons she taught her children as they were growing up. As her former husband serves as the 45th President of the United States, his children have also been thrust in ...Show more
Skin - The Memoir by Skin
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'It's been a very difficult thing being a lead singer of a rock band looking like me and it still is. I have to say it's been a fight and it will always be a fight. That fight drives you and makes you want to work harder . . . It's not supposed to be easy, particularly if you're a woman, you're black or ...Show more
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls by Nina Renata Aron
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I detonated my young marriage for a chance to step fully and honestly into a life with him... I was insane, in other words.' Aron's story of her intense, toxic affair with drug addict K is gripping, poetic and darkly amusing. But alongside the late nights and broken promises of her own life, Aron bu ...Show more
Our Man down in Havana - The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel by Christopher Hull
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Exploring the backstory that led to the writing of Graham Greene's beloved satirical spy novel, Our Man Down in Havana evokes this pivotal time and place in the author's life. When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit t ...Show more
Break the Mould by Sinead Burke
17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Break the mould with Sinéad Burke - disability advocate, activist, teacher and writer. 'There are so many people in this world - 7.53 billion to be exact. But there is only one of me and one of you. It's easy to think we are not good enough, or that our nose is too big, or wish we could be more like ou ...Show more
Glossy Years, The: Magazines,Museums and selective Memoirs by COLERIDGE NICHOLAS
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Diana touched your elbow, your arm, covered your hand with hers. It was alluring. And she was disarmingly confiding. "Can I ask you something? Nicholas, please be frank . . ." Over his 30-year career at Cond Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to th ...Show more
The Freedom Circus: One family's death-defying act to escape the Nazis and start a new life in Australia by Sue Smethurst
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Written by award-winning author and journalist Sue Smethurst, whose husband is Mindla and Michael's grandson, The Freedom Circus is an epic story of courage, hope, humanity, survival and, ultimately, love. When Sue Smethurst first sat down with her grandmother-in-law and asked how she survived the Holoc ...Show more
Son of the Brush: A memoir by Tim Olsen
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
Tom Stoppard - A Life by Hermione Lee
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A perfect match of writer and subject: one of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights--with his cooperation and access to a trove of hitherto unseen material. Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness an ...Show more