A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident. ...Show more
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women they Destroyed by Maureen Callahan
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse--the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem. The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and--above all else--integrity. But this carefully ...Show more
The Gift -12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Edith Eger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I will be forever changed by Dr Eger's Story' Oprah This practical and inspirational guide to healing from the bestselling author of The Choice shows us how to release your self-limiting beliefs and embrace your potential. The prison is in your mind. The key is in your pocket. In the end, it's not what ...Show more
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography
"Desert Flower is the compelling autobiography of supermodel Waris Dirie, born into a traditional Somali family of nomads who believed in such archaic customs as female genital mutilation and arranged marriages between prepubescent girls and elderly men, for a dowry of a few goats and camels." "The youn ...Show more
The Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few have talked about. In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmani ...Show more
The Work I Did : A Memoir of the Secretary to Goebbels by Brunhilde Pomsel; Thore D. Hansen; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I know no one ever believes us nowadays everyone thinks we knew everything. We knew nothing. It was all a well-kept secret. We believed it. We swallowed it. It seemed entirely plausible 'Brunhilde Pomsel described herself as an apolitical girl ' and a figure on the margins '. How are we to reconcile thi ...Show more
Strange Little Girl by Jessica Knight
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
My father tells it because he made it up. A little bedtime story of my origin. They are not really my parents, the people who I call Mum and Dad. Those are not my siblings, the kids who I know as my brother and sisters. I am not really human. I am an alien from another planet in a far distant constella ...Show more
Big Love: Reclaiming myself, my people, my country by Brooke Blurton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities My story is about the one thing that I never went without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like there was a future for me. The kin ...Show more
Father of the Lost Boys by Yuot A. Alaak
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
During the Second Sudanese Civil war, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced from their villages or orphaned in attacks from northern government troops. Many became refugees in Ethiopia. There, in 1989, teacher and community leader Mecak Ajang Alaak assumed care of the Lost Boys in a bid to pro ...Show more
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorised biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor.No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor's glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come o ...Show more
Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink by Ariane Beeston
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'How strange to be the observed and not the observer.' Ariane Beeston is a child protection worker and newly registered psychologist when she gives birth to her first child - and very quickly begins to experience scary breaks with reality. Out of fear and shame, she keeps her delusions and hallucinatio ...Show more
After the Worst has Happened: Tales from a funeral director on the lighter side of death by Richard Gosling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tales from a funeral director on the lighter side of death When Richard Gosling's young daughter faced emergency surgery, a colleague carelessly asked what would happen if she died. In that moment, Richard was forced to picture his own daughter's funeral, and the people who are there to help families af ...Show more