The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 2 FACT NOT FICTION BOOKCLUB* 'I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name, and with his name came the beginning of a bond which would last a life-time' Tom Michell is in his roaring twenties: single, free-spirited and seek ...Show more
Village Vets by Anthony Bennett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This first book by the much-loved stars of TV's VILLAGE VETS is the unforgettable, hilarious, heartwarming and hair-raising adventures of two country vets, the animals they treat and the characters they meet. Best mates since they met on their first day at uni, Anthony Bennett and James Carroll both dre ...Show more
Village Vets by Anthony Bennett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This first book by the much-loved stars of TV's VILLAGE VETS is the unforgettable, hilarious, heartwarming and hair-raising adventures of two country vets, the animals they treat and the characters they meet. Best mates since they met on their first day at uni, Anthony Bennett and James Carroll both dre ...Show more
All for My Children by Sally Faulkner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On Saturday, 9 May 2015, Sally Faulkner hugged her children as they left for a three-week holiday to Beirut with their father, Ali Elamine. Though Sally and Ali were separated, custody of two-year-old Noah and four-year-old Lahela had never been an issue. The kids lived with Sally in Australia and their ...Show more
Here Lies Hugh Glass A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation by Jon T. Coleman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass' companions slew the bear, but his injuries mocked their first aid. Two men would stay behind to bury the corpse when it finally stopped gurgling; the rest would move on. Al ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
$36.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question "What makes a life worth living?" At the age of thirty-six, on ...Show more
Anna Madgigine Jai KingsleyAfrican Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner by Daniel L. Schafer
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Provides an unexpectedly thorough account that traces the life of a woman from a Wolof village in Senegal, across the Atlantic via the middle passage, to a Florida community of African slaves and white slave owners."--Southern Historian "An absorbing account of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, an African w ...Show more
Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea by Marie Munkara
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving, Of Ashes and Rivers That Run to the Sea is a fearless account of being a young woman caught between two worlds. An old baptismal card falling out of a book changed the course of 28-year-old Marie Munkara's life forever. Until that moment she had no idea of ...Show more
Percy Granger by John Bird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Biography Ser.
In few creative figures can such artistic brilliance, a demonic drive idiosyncracy and uncompromising ideology be so inextricably mixed as the extraordinary life of Australia's popular pianist, Percy Grainger. From the world's foremost Grainger scholar now comes the definitive revision of Grainger and h ...Show more
JFK and the Masculine Mystique by Steven Watts
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedy's allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attracted to Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s - his glamorous image, good looks, cool style, tough-minded rhetoric, and sex appeal? As Steve Watts argues ...Show more
The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Bronte story has been written many times but rarely as compellingly as by the Brontes themselves. In this selection of letters and autobiographical fragments we hear the authentic voices of the three novelist sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, their brother, Branwell, and their father, the Reverend ...Show more