Between Them - Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford
$18.98 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family loveRichard Ford's parents volunteered little about their early lives - and he rarely asked. Later, he piec ...Show more
A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a war.""You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?""Yes, all the time.""Cool."I smile a little."You should tell us about it sometime.""Yes ...Show more
TornA Terrified Girl. A Shocking Secret. A Terrible Choice by Rosie Lewis
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Experienced foster carer Rosie Lewis faces a battle to uncover the dark family secret that is tearing a family apart.Rosie is used to looking after children from difficult home situations, but she finds herself struggling when she agrees to take in Taylor and her younger brother, Reece, for a short whil ...Show more
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss by Anderson Cooper
$42.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their livesThough Anderson Cooper has always considered himself close to his mother, his intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS affords h ...Show more
The House on the Hill by Susan Duncan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The third and final memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek. In this memoir, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there's no point in sweating long-term ramifications. There aren't any. This new understanding delivers an unexpected bonus u the emotional freedo ...Show more
Schubert's Winter Journey : Anatomy of an Obsession by Ian Bostridge
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An exploration of the world's most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey (Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes--literary, historical, psychological--that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece. Complete ...Show more
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
$30.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it."--Barbara W. Tuchm ...Show more
Plum From Bihar to Berkeley, the Life of Plum Rutherford Haet by A. M. Palmer
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A biography of an extraordinary woman who saw the last days of the British Raj, hunted tigers in Nepal with Maharajas and later worked as Ava Gardner's personal assistant. Tragedy struck when she was widowed with two small children, forcing her to reinvent herself in Berkeley, California as a radical 19 ...Show more
Leila's Secret by Kooshyar Karimi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In fundamentalist Iran, new life sometimes means certain death. When Leila comes to see Doctor Karimi, both are in danger. Born in a slum to a Muslim father and a Jewish mother, Kooshyar Karimi has transformed himself into a successful doctor, an award-winning writer, and an adoring father. His could be ...Show more
Down the Dirt Roads by Rachael Treasure
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'For me, being in a paddock means anything is possible ' Country girl and bestselling novelist Rachael Treasure seemed to have it all, a long-dreamed-of lifestyle on her own patch of dirt in Tasmania's rugged and beautiful wilderness. But through the breakdown of her marriage, Rachael lost her family fa ...Show more
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An ageing queen, an heirless state, conspiracy all round: here is the court of Elizabeth I as never known before History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power. But the reality, especially during her later years, was not so simple. In 1583 Elizabeth is fifty years old, past ...Show more
The Man without Qualities: Vol 2 Into the Millennium, from the Posthumous Papers by Robert Musil
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
" Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance." --New Republic.