Between Gods by Alison Pick
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Alison Pick was born in the 1970s and raised in a loving, supportive family, but as a teenager she made a discovery that changed her understanding of who she was for ever. She learned that her Pick grandparents, who had escaped from Czechoslovakia during WWII, were Jewish, and that most of this side of ...Show more
The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs Book 5 by Clive James
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser.
'I was never alone except in the toilet, where I soon found that locking myself into a cubicle was not much protection from hearing myself talked about by young men standing at urinals. ("Jesus, he's looking rough." "And it's only Monday.") Reviews for Clive James's fourth volume of memoirs, North Face ...Show more
Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth by Mark Bostridge
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the ...Show more
George VI by Philip Ziegler
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Written by Philip Ziegler, one of Britain's most celebrated biographers, George VI is part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format. If Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the title of 'George ...Show more
Cracking the Code by Stephen Damiani
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
This story of a father's search to find a diagnosis, and ultimately a cure, for his son's mystery disease is an inspiration that has set the world of genetic medicine and research abuzz with the possibilities for the future. After Cracking the Code screened on Australian Story Stephen Damiani and his ex ...Show more
Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Larger-than-life character Tiny Cooper, from John Green and David Levithan’s bestselling novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson, finally tells his own story the only way he knows how—as a stupendous musical. In this novel-in-musical-form, readers will experience all of Hold Me Closer, the autobiographical mu ...Show more
Unforgettable by Scott Simon
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I'm getting a life's lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU. We never stop learning from our mothers, do we?' Unforgettable is a son's spirited, affecting, and inspiring tribute to his remarkable mother and the love between parent and child. When NPR's Scott Simon began tweeting from his mother's ...Show more
A Singer's Notebook by Ian Bostridge
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time, celebrated for the quality of his voice but also for the exceptional intelligence he brings to bear on the interpretation of the repertoire of the past and present alike. Yet his early career was that of a professional historian, and A Singer' ...Show more
Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man by Abdi Aden
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others,heading to Kenya. On the wa ...Show more
Whipping Boy by Allen Kurzweil
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The true account of one man's lifelong search for his boarding-school bullyEqual parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some forty years, takes Kurzwei ...Show more
Not Just a Piece of Cake : Being An Author (Let Hippos Eat Cake) by Hazel Edwards
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A memoir is only a slice of a life. This 'questory' (quest + history) covers more than the beloved cake-eating hippo. 'Not Just a Piece of Cake' is a candid memoir of the realistic process of the process of creativity, via anecdotes. 'Anecdultery' is a Hazel original term for story. Hazel Edwards takes ...Show more
Henry II: A Prince Among Princes by Richard Barber
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Henry II (1154-89) through a series of astonishing dynastic coups became the ruler of an enormous European empire. One of the most dynamic, restless and clever men ever to rule England, he was brought down both by his catastrophic relationship with his archbishop Thomas Becket and his debilitating argum ...Show more