I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Biography | Series: Seventeen Brushes with Death
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extr ...Show more
Beatrix Potter, Scientist by Lindsay H. Metcalf; Junyi Wu (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: She Made History Ser.
Everyone knows Beatrix Potter as the creator of the Peter Rabbit stories. But before that, she was a girl of science. As a child, Beatrix collected nature specimens; as a young adult, she was an amateur mycologist presenting her research on mushrooms and other fungi to England's foremost experts. Like m ...Show more
Hilke's Diary - Germany, July 1940-August 1945 by Hilke; Charlotte Clark; Geseke Clark (Editor)
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Category: Biography | Series: Sutton Ser.
Hilke's Diary is a battered, chintz-covered little book with a flowery pattern, its lock (once so important to its young owner) long since broken. It has survived an incredible near-seventy years, and was the inseparable companion of a little German girl throughout the Second World War. Hilke was evacua ...Show more
Renoir's Dancer - The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
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Category: Biography | Series: Suzanne Valadon
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager in Montmartre, Suzanne began posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned pai ...Show more
The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy #3) by Gerald Durrell
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Category: Biography | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the ...Show more
'I can't imagine anything worse': A salute to Prince Philip (in his own words) by Orange Hippo!
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Category: Biography | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
"A talent for putting one's foot in one's mouth"
Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen
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Category: Biography | Series: The\Yorkshire Shepherdess Ser.
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller. As seen on Channel 5's Our Yorkshire Farm.Amanda Owen loves her traditional life on her hill farm alongside her nine children and husband Clive. And, as readers of her previous bestsellers will know, every day at Ravenseat brings surprises. In Adventures of the Yorksh ...Show more
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me by Joseph Martin Bauer
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Category: Biography | Series: Tom Thorne Novels Ser.
Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after World War II. Rebelling against the brutality of the camp, Forell staged a daring escape enduring an 8000-mile journey across the trackless wastes of Siberia, in some of the most treacherous and in ...Show more
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf
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Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Th ...Show more
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani ; Omid Tofighian (Translator)
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$32.99 (39% off)
Category: Biography | Series: Writings from Manus Prison
Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and f ...Show more
Rocky Road: The Incredible True Story of the Fractured Family Behind the Darrell Lea Chocolate Empire by Robert Wainwright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The answer to our success was family.' In 1935, the Australian family confectionery company, Darrell Lea, was a sensation. Delicious chocolates, marshmallows, nougat and much more were displayed colourfully and plentifully in line with the family's motto, 'Stack 'em high, watch 'em fly'. It was at this ...Show more