My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters by Chris Barker
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Twenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving ...Show more
Long Walk to Freedom (FTI) by Nelson Mandela
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Nelson Mandela became the democratically elected, first black president ...Show more
Me, Myself and Lord Byron by Julietta Jameson
$5.99 AUD
$34.99 (82% off)
Category: Biography
'Mad, bad and dangerous to know', Lord Byron was not just one of England's finest poets, he was also history's first true rock star, living a life of abundant extravagance and shocking scandal that led eventually to self-imposed exile in Europe. Through his travels, Byron carved out a new life, remainin ...Show more
Passing Clouds - A Winemaker's Journey by Graeme Leith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Electrician, Graeme Leith joined Melbourne's theatre collective at Carton's famously innovative Pram Factory Theatre and said 'let there be light'. And there was; Graham Blundell, Jack Hibberd, Max Gillies and many others produced over 140 new Australian plays in ten years.
Daddy's Little Earner by Maria Landon
$7.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The shocking story of a young girl forced into prostitution by her own father, and her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood and build a new life for herself and her sons. Maria's dad was a pimp, living in a world of thieves and street-walkers. Her mother, tiring of turning tricks for her hus ...Show more
Punished: A Mother's Cruelty. A Daughter's Survival. A Secret That Couldn't be Told. by Vanessa Steel
$7.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Punished' is the inspiring true story of an unusual little girl, Vanessa, whose childhood was devastated by torture and abuse at the hands of her sadistic mother. Vanessa was nearly destroyed until she discovered a secret that ultimately saved her life. From the age of 3, Vanessa lived in daily terror ...Show more
My Life with Che by Hilda Gadea
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'He stayed to talk that day for some time. Eventually Lucila left the room. Then we turned to more personal matters, the disagreement completely forgotten. I confessed that I had been deeply moved by what he had written in the book' Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, was with him during a tumultuous ...Show more
Walking Free: From Iraqi Refugee to Pioneering Surgeon by Munjed Al Muderis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. ...Show more
His Bright Light by Danielle Steel
$14.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By the age of 19, he was dead. This is Danielle Steel's personal story of the son she lost to manic depression and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against the illness.
Ring of Bright Water: A Trilogy by Gavin Maxwell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Nonpareil Books
This volume weaves together the Scottish otter stories from Gavin Maxwell's three non-fiction books, Ring of Bright Water (1960), The Rocks Remain (1963), and Raven Meet Thy Brother (1969). Maxwell was both an extraordinarily evocative writer and a highly unusual man. While touring the Iraqi marshes, he ...Show more
The Making of a Chef by Luke Mangan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Making of a Chef takes us through the highs and lows of Luke's career and gives us insight into the life of a working chef, beyond the glamour and glitz and into the making of today's celebrity - the chef.
The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography
'On the last day of 1959 my father, the Beau Brummel of morticians, piled us into his green and white Desoto in which we looked like a moving pack of Salem cigarettes. He drove away from Lanesboro, the city in which we all were born, and into a small town on the Kentucky and Tennessee border. It was o ...Show more