Rust - A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. A young woman's debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as she returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly ...Show more
A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis by Louise Curtis
18.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis.Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the ...Show more
Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon by Patrick Mullins
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the 2020 Australian National Biography Award and the 2020 NSW Premier's Non-Fiction Award. The oddly compelling story of a man regarded as Australia's worst prime minister. William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics in the second half of ...Show more
My Grandfather's Son A Memoir by Clarence Thomas
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words.Thomas was born in rural Georgia into a life marked by poverty and hunger. At age seven, Thomas and his ...Show more
A Year at the Chateau by Dick Strawbridge; Angel Strawbridge
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale chateau, complete with 45 rooms, seven outbuildings, 12 acres of land and its own moat. Thro ...Show more
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz by Thomas Geve
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A profoundly moving true story of survival and hope, featuring powerful drawings of his experiences, Thomas Geve was a Birkenau, Auschwitz, Gross Rosen and Buchenwald survivor at just 15 years old. Spending twenty-two months imprisoned at these camps during WW2, Thomas was subject to, and forced to obs ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
Like Father Like Son - A family story by Michael Parkinson
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
Quite by Claudia Winkleman
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Funny, moving and truthful ... Quite Claudia Winkleman's warmth, humour, no-holds-barred attitude and smoky eye have made her the favourite broadcaster of millions and a much-loved household name. In this, her first ever book, Claudia invites us all into her world. She shares her observations on to ...Show more
Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good by Beverly Donofrio
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Denied college, Beverly Donofrio lost interest in everything but riding around town in cars, drinking and smoking, and rebelling against authority. She got married and divorced and finally ended up in an elite New England university, books in one arm, child in the other. A book about the compromise betw ...Show more
A History of Scars - A Memoir by Laura Lee
42.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From a writer whose work has been called "breathtaking and dazzling" by Roxane Gay, this moving, illuminating, and multifaceted memoir explores, in a series of essays, the emotional scars we carry when dealing with mental and physical illnesses--reminiscent of The Collected Schizophrenias and An Unquiet ...Show more
Incomparable by Brie Bella; Nikki Bella
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A raw, honest, and revealing co-memoir by Brie and Nikki Bella: twin sisters, WWE Hall of Fame inductees, and stars of the hit E shows Total Bellas and Total Divas.As twins, the Bellas have always competed. Legend has it that Nikki drop-kicked Brie in the womb so that she could make her grand entrance f ...Show more