Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem ...Show more
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life. From Bletchley Park cod ...Show more
Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent? As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her husband's a ...Show more
All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss and Art by Patrick Bringley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
**THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR****A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**A revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art'Who would have thought that the outstanding art book of you would have been written not by a curator or an a ...Show more
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter; Jane Degras (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husb ...Show more
Young Hitler - The making of the fuhrer by Paul Ham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
WHEN ADOLF HITLER went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'. Twice decorated for bravery, the future dictator thrilled to battle, relished violence and was willing to give everything for his beloved Fatherland.He heard of Germany' ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Big Love: Reclaiming myself, my people, my country by Brooke Blurton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities My story is about the one thing that I never went without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like there was a future for me. The kin ...Show more
Happy As: Stories of summer, childhood and the magic of family by Larry Emdur
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Larry Emdur is one of Australia's most popular and enduring TV personalities. Happy As is a memoir of becoming Larry. Long before the game shows and morning TV, Larry Emdur was just Larry, a cheeky kid from Bondi who grew up paddling round the kiddies' pool on a foam surfboard, and rocking a safari suit ...Show more
Barty: Much More Than Tennis by Ron Reed and Chris McLeod
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Of all the uplifting sports stories that have captured the worlds imagination, few have been greeted with such spontaneous and unanimous acclaim as tennis champion Ashleigh Barty. This book covers her journey from a knockabout kid from Queensland, Australia to Wimbledon Champion and World No. 1 player a ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell'I was entranced' Cathy ...Show more