Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home by Alexander Wolff
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A powerful portrait of a Jewish German family divided by exile, abandonment and emigration. In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twent ...Show more
Telltale: Reading Writing Remembering by Carmel Bird
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I was confined, locked into my library, tracing my heartbeats from way, way back.’ In Telltale, Carmel Bird seizes on an enforced isolation to re-read a rich dispensary of books from her past. A rule she sets herself is that she can consult only the books in her house, even if some, such as the much-l ...Show more
The Sword and the Shield - The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr by Peniel E. Joseph
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders.To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, bl ...Show more
True North: A Memoir by Catherine Deveny
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An uplifting, heartfelt memoir about surviving life's upheavals - and how to live authentically Breaking up isn't a conscious decision, it's more of a revelation ... In the first few moments after waking each day I needed to remind myself who I was and what had happened. It was like pulling a compass o ...Show more
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
Tears over Russia - A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms by Lisa Brahin
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As a child, I was drawn to an old sepia-toned photograph taken in Russia that stood proudly on my great-grandmother's shelf. The Cabinet Portrait showed her as a stunning young brunette propping up her infant daughter on a four legged stand. It was my first clue that another world preceded mine, and the ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World by Elaine Pearson
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights – from human trafficking in Nepal to the 'drug war' in the Philippines to treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia – offering an extremely involving personal account of how far we’ve come, and ...Show more
High Risk: A Doctor's Notes on Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected by Chavi Eve Karkowsky
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One doctor's testament to the importance of listening - truly listening - to women and their medical experiences of pregnancy and childbirth.'My work offers a window into the darkest and lightest corners of people's lives, into the extremes of human experience,' writes Dr Chavi Eve Karkowsky in High Ris ...Show more
The Banolians 2 Volume Slipcase by Vicki Steggall
120.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Banolians is a family history that speaks to today's reader, taking them on a journey from 1820 and the upper reaches of European nobility, through poverty, grief and separation from Estonia, England & Ireland to Australia, The story then returns to England in the 'Edwardian Summer' before World ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more
Tell Me Again: A Memoir by Amy Thunig
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the story of her birth be retold. Years later, heavily pregnant with her own first child, she learns what really happened that day. It's a tale that exemplifies many of the events of her early life, w ...Show more