A Fortunate Life (HB) - Fremantle Press Treasures by A. B. Facey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Fremantle Press Treasures Edition
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Hachette Essentials) by David Sedaris
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: HACHETTE ESSENTIALS
A hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,' New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris (Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt) Anyone who has heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a collection from him is cause ...Show more
Run Baby Run by Nicky Cruz; Jamie Buckingham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Hodder Christian Books
One of the most influential Christian books of modern times, with over 12 million copies sold worldwide. The book is being re-issued with a compelling foreword by Tim Dilena to emphasize its relevance today. Nicky Cruz's powerful story of redemption, salvation and transformation is a powerful testame ...Show more
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue - A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union by Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Amanda L. Tyler
$44.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Law in the Public Square Ser.
Tracing the long history of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's work for gender equality and a "more perfect Union" In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the lat ...Show more
Turmoil by Robyn Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Letters from the Brink
Robyn Williams, presenter of The Science Show on ABC Radio, reveals all in Turmoil, a searingly honest and often blackly funny reflection on his life, friends, the people he loves and loathes, and a multi-faceted career that includes over forty years on radio. Robyn writes frankly about everything, from ...Show more
I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl; Phyllis Lassner (Introduction by); Danny M. Cohen (Introduction by); Eva Hoffman (Afterword by)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature Ser.
Gisella Perl's memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women's extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her l ...Show more
Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx
$38.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Limelight
Funny and engaging, wise and poignant.
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee; David John (As told to)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: North Korea
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of ...Show more
Eleni by Nicholas Gage
$30.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Panther Ser.
In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. Her crime had been to help her children to escape from the Communist guerrillas during the Greek civil war who were abducting children and sending them to camps behind the Iron Curtain. Her son, Nicholas Gage, was ...Show more
When I Was Old by Georges Simenon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty'. Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', ...Show more