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
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
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
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
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
Three Famines by Tom Keneally
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the story of three great famines. The first is an Gorta Mor, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate. The second is the less well-known but more deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in ...Show more
The World According to Joan by Joan Collins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Witty, clever and beautiful, Joan Collins possesses a singular star quality that has come to define what it means to be a living legend. As an actor, author and producer, she has built a career that places her in an unrivalled position in the ranks of international icons. In this, her latest memoir, she ...Show more
The Wrong Line by Andrew Ramsey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As a cricket writer for over ten years, Andrew Ramsey's job was to be on tour with the world's greatest cricket team, in a decade when it had no peer. His book chronicles the privileges and pitfalls of a life spent trotting the globe, hanging out with sports stars, and being paid to watch cricket - a pa ...Show more
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night, he spent it as fast as he could on drugs, sex and travel. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab; to the wife and kids who waited for him at home; and the fast-talking, hard-partyi ...Show more