Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea by Michael Smith, Jonathan Franklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hotspots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina, loaded with 1,200 passengers - British, American, Australi ...Show more
My Place at the Table - A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris by Alexander Lobrano
$53.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he became one of Paris's most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women's Wear Daily, his main experience of French cuisine ...Show more
The Queen by Andrew Morton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world.For years she prayed for her mother to give birth to ...Show more
Return to Latvia by Marina Jarre
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Building upon her celebrated autobiography Distant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she left as a ten-year-old girl in 1935. In Return to Latvia-thousands were slaughtered in a 1941 mass execution by Nazi death squads with active participation by ...Show more
Rising Water - The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue by Marc Aronson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The incredible true story of the twelve boys trapped with their coach in a flooded cave in Thailand and their inspiring rescue. On June 23rd, 2018, twelve members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach were exploring the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex in northern Thailand when disaster stru ...Show more
Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir by Linda Ronstadt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and '70s.Born into a musical family, Linda's childhood was filled with everything from Hank Williams to Gilbert ...Show more
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angel ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Henri Charri re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more
I Would Meet You Anywhere - A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito
$41.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Machete Ser.
"Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutting with her words. But it is all in service of her own healing and to encourage us all to be brave enough to do the same in our own stories." --W. Kamau Bell Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan ...Show more
Kiki Man Ray - Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just the kaleidoscopically talented Kiki herself, but the endlessly fascinating Montparnasse milieu over which she reigned' Whitney Scharer, author of THE AGE OF LIGHT. Though many have never hea ...Show more
House of Kwa by Mimi Kwa
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Wild Swans meets Flesh Wounds in this riveting family saga spanning four generations The dreamer boy travelling on dragon hide ... a tiger running alone in the night ... Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her hair turned grey. Why would a father ...Show more