84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
8 STATES OF CATASTROPHE by LEE THOMPSON, KAREN
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
8 States of Catastrophe takes us on a journey through the Australian continent, exposing snapshots of lives both separate and delicately connected. Mysterious coincidences and a series of catastrophes accompany an ex-journalist and his faithful dog as they twist their way around the continent in this un ...Show more
The 7.56 Report by John Clarke
$23.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An official enquiry into just about everything, covering the glittering age Australians have been enduring since 2003. First published 2006.
The 33 by Jonathan Franklin
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On 12 October 2010 the world's attention was fixed on a remote copper mine in the Atacama desert in Chile. Final preparations were underway for a daring rescue to bring to an end the longest underground entrapment in human history. 69 days earlier, 33 men were midway through a routine shift, deep in the ...Show more
3,096 Days by Natascha Kampusch
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"3,096 Days" is the remarkable and shocking true account of the kidnap of Natascha Kampusch in 1998, who relives her traumatic experiences in this amazing true story. On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. Hours later she wa ...Show more
The 15:17 to Paris by Anthony Sadler
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On 21 August 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded a train in Brussels bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear- he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate the 554 passengers on the crowded train. But as he began to execute his plan, he encountered an unstoppable line of ...Show more
The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
September 11 2001 is a date no-one can forget. On that day, the largest terrorist attack the world had ever seen sent two passenger aircraft crashing into New York’s famous twin towers, a third into the Pentagon, and a fourth, believed to be headed for the White House, crashed into a field in Pennsyl ...Show more
127 Hours by Aron Ralston
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Category: Biography & Memoir
On Sunday April 27, 2003, 27-year old Aron Ralston set off for a day's hiking in the Utah canyons. Dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, Ralston, a seasoned climber, figured he'd hike for a few hours and then head off to work. 40 miles from the nearest paved road, he found himself on top of an 800-pound boul ...Show more
The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle by Joanne Huist Smith
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Category: Biography & Memoir
For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love. After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had ...Show more
1000 Hour Day by Chris Bray
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 2005, Australians Chris Bray (then 21 years old) and Clark Carter (20) dreamed of embarking on an adventure it was to be a world-first, traversing 1000 kilometres of perhaps the most extreme and diverse landscape on the planet - everything from snow and ice to mud, shattered rock, rivers and fields ...Show more
One Hundred and Four Horses: A Family Forced to Run. The Horses They Had to Save. An Epic Journey to Freedom. by Mandy Retzlaff
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'A letter is handed to you. In broken English, it tells you that you must now vacate your farm; that this is no longer your home, for it now belongs to the crowd on your doorstep. Then the drums begin to beat.' As the land invasions gather pace, the Retzlaffs begin an epic journey across Zimbabwe, facin ...Show more