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 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
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 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 of ...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
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
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
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
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon's Australia by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In a life that spanned more than a century - 1882 to 1989 - Monte Punshon witnessed crucial events in Australia's history. She was a pioneer radio broadcaster, travelled the country with children's theatrical troupes and defied convention with her active involvement in the underground world of queer Mel ...Show more
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world. Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams and made occasi ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more