My Mother and Other Secrets by Wendyl Nissen
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Uncovering old family secrets leads Wendyl Nissen to a better understanding of her mother.
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning journalists and activists. A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich has delved with devastatin ...Show more
How Good is Scott Morrison? by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his leadership under the spotlight. Covering Morrison's disas ...Show more
The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Henriette Roosenburg
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How do you start a journey when the roads are blocked? Who can you trust in a country where the Nazi regime has only just fallen? "This is the story of the liberation of four Dutch political prisoners at the end of World War II, and about their trek home to Holland..." So, modestly, begins this firstha ...Show more
A Cheetah's Tale by Michael; Jonathan Scott (Foreword by)
47.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Bradt Travel Guides
This charming autobiographical tale from Princess Michael of Kent tells of a girl growing up and the incredible bond that can exist between people and animals. Beautifully written by a natural storyteller and packed with fabulous photographs, it is also a wonderful portrait of Africa - the cheetah versi ...Show more
My Place by Sally Morgan
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
My Place begins with Sally Morgan tracing the experiences of her own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - a ...Show more
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more, Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called ‘Lillibet’. ...Show more
The Performer's Tale - The Nine Lives of Patience Collier by Vanessa Morton
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Though Patience Collier's name has faded from public consciousness since her death in 1987, it still conjures cool memories of iconic television and film from the 1970s and 1980s - Sapphire and Steel, Who Pays the Ferryman, Fiddler on the Roofand The French Lieutenant's Woman. Fearsome, eccentric and un ...Show more
34 Patients by Tom Templeton
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Look at the people around you. Now look closer.Is the middle-aged man right to be worried about the twinge in his chest?Why is the little girl coughing? Asthma - or something more serious?And what secret hurts are you carrying yourself?Doctors know our deepest fears, our private worries and our most vul ...Show more
BATTULGA by Turmunkh, D
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the authorised biography of the current President of Mongolia, Khaltmaa Battulga. Battulga and the author studied together in college. At that time, Tulgaa, as his friends fondly called him, was sewing jeans, selling records and merchandizing. Then he went on to participate in sports and won the ...Show more
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The No. 1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as a child with autism, now an award-winning documentary film. 'It will stretch your vision of what it is to be human' Andrew Solomon, The Times What is it like to have autism? How can we know what a person - especially a child - wit ...Show more
The Women's Doc: True Stories from My Five Decades Delivering Babies and Making History by Caroline de Costa
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Funny and poignant stories from the labour ward and from the frontline of campaigns for women's reproductive rights, from Australia's best known obstetrician. 'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology ...Show more