Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home by Sisonke Msimang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
If I were given five minutes with my younger self--that little girl who cried every time we had to leave for another country--I would hold her tight and not say a word. I would just be still and have her feel my beating heart, a thud to echo her own--a silent message that, no matter the outcome, she wou ...Show more
Tears for Tarshiha by Olfat Mahmoud; Helen McCue (Contribution by); Dani Cooper (Contribution by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Olfat Mahmoud, a stateless refugee, is a descendant of the `forgotten Palestinians¿, forced from their homes by the Israeli military in 1948. A former nurse, NGO director and academic, Mahmoud¿s confronting autobiography asks when the world will deliver on its promise and allow her people to return home ...Show more
Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix?s Emmy award-winning Queer Eye, tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional South Asian family, as one of the few peop ...Show more
Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of 46. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a ...Show more
Malice in Wonderland - My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer during his many fascinating encounters with extraordinary--often legendary--characters in his search for the real Cecil Beaton Hugo Vickers' life took a dramatic turn in 1979 when the legendary Sir Cecil Beaton invited him ...Show more
Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life by Clem Bastow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Introducing a bold new voice in Australian nonfiction, Late Bloomer is a heartfelt coming-of-age memoir that will change the way you think about autism. Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she'd missed a key memo on human behaviour. She found the unspoken rules of social engagement confusing, arbitrary a ...Show more
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story by Gwen Strauss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home. The nine were ordinary women, some still in their teens, who joined the French and Dutch Resistance in the face of Nazi horror ...Show more
Philip: The Final Portrait by Gyles Brandreth
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip - elusive, complex, controver ...Show more
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The bold and brilliant biography of maverick British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, one of the twentieth-century's greatest thinkers, by an award-winning author. Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2020. ' ...Show more
No Document by Anwen Crawford
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artw ...Show more
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. *A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED PRIZE 2021* Determined not ...Show more
The Courage to Forgive by Danny and Leila Abdallah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How a family came back from the unthinkable and forgave the driver who killed three of their children. Nothing forewarned Danny and Leila Abdallah of the tragedy they would face on 1 February 2020. In one of the most horrific road accidents in Australian memory, three of their children and their young ...Show more