Vera - My Story by Vera Wasowski; Robert Hillman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A story of courage, unconventionality and lust for life. Vera Wasowski was just seven years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov Jewish ghetto in Poland. She watched her father take his own life and her mother accede to sexual blackmail in order to ensure her and Vera's survival. Wi ...Show more
Voyage of the Southern Sun : An Amazing Solo Journey Around the World by Michael Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
With limited flying experience, no support team, and only basic instruments in his tiny single-engine flying boat, Smith risked his life to make modern aviation history. His historic flight lasted seven months, and took him from Australia all around the world. In 2016 he was named "Australian Geographic ...Show more
Ugly by Constance Briscoe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the girl was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When that failed, she swallowed bleach 'because it kills all ...Show more
Unmasked by Turia Pitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Whether via the numerous media reports, 60 Minutesspecials, Women's Weeklycover stories or her first book, Everything To Live For,we know about the why, how and what of that fateful day in September 2011. We know how she died four times on the operating table and her tortuous road to recovery. We've had ...Show more
The Way We Wore: A Life in Clothes by Daphne Selfe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Daphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey. She has modelled for Dolce and Gabbana, Red or Dead and high-street chains such as TK Maxx, and regularly appears in newspaper fashion pages and glossy magazines. She is one of Britain's most in-demand supermodels and has ...Show more
Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in 'Through the Narrow Gate', Karen Armstrong struggled to establish herself in a new wa ...Show more
Twists and Turns by Matthew Mitcham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At the Beijing Olympic Games, he made history with an unforgettable dive, the first to ever score perfect tens from all four judges, and won gold for Australia. Grinning with pride from front pages around the world, there was no hint of the personal demons that had led this supremely talented young dyna ...Show more
Long Haul, the Lessons from Public Life by John Brumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Long Haul distils a series of practical lessons on leadership and public life from John Brumby's thirty years in politics. It offers insights into the challenges and opportunities Australia currently faces and argues for real political reform, a different future for our federation and strong leaders ...Show more
True Stories from the Morgue by John Merrick
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Forensic Counsellor, John Merrick spent 20 years in what he describes as 'a very unusual environment' the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Office of the State Coroner in Glebe, Sydney more commonly known as the 'city morgue'. What's it like to work in a morgue This book describes, first hand, copin ...Show more
Treasures from the Attic: The Extraordinary Story of Anne Frank's Family by Mirjam Pressler
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The story of Anne Frank, her family and the famous diaries, told with the help of thousands of letters, documents and photographs recently discovered in an attic. It contrasts the normality of family life with the horrors of persecution, deportation and the concentration camps."
True Spirit: The Aussie girl who took on the world by Jessica Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit.TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want to know: the planning, theitinerary, what she did to ...Show more
A Train In Winter - A Story of Resistance, Friendship & Survival by Caroline Moorehead
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz — the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgirl of 15, the eld ...Show more