Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Master of the Senate (#3 The Years of Lyndon Johnson) by Robert A CARO
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Years of Lyndon Johnson Ser.
National Book Award winner. The long-awaited third volume in Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert A. Caro's award-winning epic biography of Lyndon Johnson. Like the previous two volumes, it has become a national bestseller and garnered unalloyed recognition as the greatest political biography of our time.
Myself When Young: Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
12.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Text Classics Ser.
It has never been my way to say much about my private life. Rightly or wrongly, I believed this only concerned myself. And I trusted to my husband to supply, on my death, any further information that might be asked for. Now that he is gone, however, there is no one to take his place, and so I propose to ...Show more
A Black Boy at Eton by Dillibe Onyeama
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Black Britain Writing Back Ser.
'The story [Onyeama] had to tell was so gripping and shocking, it wouldn't let me go . . . A remarkably well-written memoir' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionDillibe was the second black boy to study at Eton - joining in 1965 - and the first to complete his education there. Written at just 21, ...Show more
The Upside of Being Down - How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life by Jen Gotch
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An entertaining, humorous, and inspirational memoir by the founder and chief creative officer of the multimillion-dollar lifestyle brand ban.do, who "has become a hero among women (and likely some men too) who struggle with mental health (Forbes)." After graduating from college, Jen Gotch was living wi ...Show more
Father of the Lost Boys by Yuot A. Alaak
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
During the Second Sudanese Civil war, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced from their villages or orphaned in attacks from northern government troops. Many became refugees in Ethiopia. There, in 1989, teacher and community leader Mecak Ajang Alaak assumed care of the Lost Boys in a bid to pro ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 by Chips Channon
75.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and ...Show more
Over the Hill and Up the Wall by Todd Alexander
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Category: Biography & Memoir
For every child with a frustrating parent and every parent whose child knows best. We love our parents, of course we do. But have you noticed how many things they do seem designed to drive us bonkers?It's the way they never follow doctor's orders, or conveniently relay only part of their treatment. It's ...Show more
To the One I Love the Best by Ludwig Bemelmans
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails. By the end of the night, he was firmly established as a member of the family: given a bedroom in their sumptuous house, invitations to the most outrageous parties in Hollywood, and the fri ...Show more
Motherland by Stephanie Trethewey
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Stories of the strength, heartbreak and passion of rural mothers. 'Motherland had me feeling angry, then sobbing, then laughing, then cheering and finally left me so inspired. These true stories, captured so beautifully by Stephanie Trethewey, reveal the guts, grit and courage of rural women while cele ...Show more
I Came All This Way to Meet You - Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity--and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg--des ...Show more