A Brilliant Life : My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Rachelle Unreich
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around ...Show more
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order coul ...Show more
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival, Music and Hope by Roxanne de Bastion
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player - how it, along with him, survived.When her father died, singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather, St ...Show more
Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy. Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub 'Catch a Rising Star' as a twenty-one-year-old student in autumn of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved e ...Show more
The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion by Cory Leadbeater
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Cory Leadbeater grew up in a working-class town in New Jersey, one of three brothers, a quiet kid looking to find refuge from the rougher parts of his childhood in Dickens, Austen and Frost. Almost a decade ago when he was just starting at Columbia's MFA program, still living at home, he received an off ...Show more
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt by Asne Seierstad
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is ...Show more
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan. At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary L.A. party for the pu ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared ...Show more
Madonna: A Rebel Life by Mary Gabriel
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Madonna built the house in which nearly all female artists now live . . . A Rebel Life brings home not just her obvious willpower and strength, but her fearlessness and sheer intelligence' DAILY TELEGRAPH In this exceptional biography, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise ...Show more
Fragile Creatures: A Memoir by Khin Myint
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Khin's sister Theda has a strange illness. Her doctor thinks it's purely physical, and so does she, but Khin is not so sure. He knows what they both went through growing up in Perth - it wasn't welcoming back then for a Burmese-Australian family. With Theda's condition getting worse, Khin heads off to t ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
35.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism – Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has led a remarkable life. Power of Balance is a landmark memoir that explores the events and ideas that have inspired and provoked her in working to create change. One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as p ...Show more