Making Trouble (Tongued with Fire): An Imagined History of Harriet Elphinstone Dick and Alice C Moon by Sue Ingleton
29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In the cold winter of 1875, two rebellious spirits travel from the pale sunlight of England to the raw heat of Australia. Harriet Rowell (age 23) and Alice Moon (age 20) were champion swimmers in a time when women didnt go into the sea; they were athletic and strong in a time when women believed men who ...Show more
Condé Nast - The Man and His Empire -- a Biography by Susan Ronald
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first biography in over thirty years of Conde Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Conde Nast's life and career was as high profile and glamourous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth century with jus ...Show more
The Girls by Chloe Higgins
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the People’s Choice Award in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2020. In 2005, Chloe Higgins was seventeen years old. She and her mother, Rhonda, stayed home so that she could revise for her HSC exams while her two younger sisters, Carlie and Lisa, went skiing with their father. On th ...Show more
The Writing On The Wall by Juliet Rieden
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1938, as Hitler's troops are marching on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but destroy their family. Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s wondering why she had so few relatives, why her family ...Show more
Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain by Sarah Vallance
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The searing, wry memoir about a woman's fight for a new life after a devastating brain injury. When Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a jarring blow to the head, she believes she's walked away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she's led from work to the emergency ...Show more
Original Spin - Misadventures in Cricket by Vic Marks
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The much-loved former England player, Guardian cricket correspondent and TMS broadcaster tells the story of his life in cricket for the first time.
Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean by Brett Archibald
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
If you were terrified watching Open Water or The Shallows, or suffered along with Aron Ralston through his ordeal in 127 Hours, you will find this true story of Brett Archibald's ordeal, lost overboard in the Indian Ocean, absolutely extraordinary. 'When I heard Brett had fallen overboard, after twelve ...Show more
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily GrossmanIf Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized b ...Show more
On Drugs by Chris Fleming
29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A memoir of intoxication like no other, On Drugs explores Chris Fleming's experience of drug addiction, which begins while he is a student before escalating into a life-threatening compulsion. A philosopher by training, Fleming combines meticulous observation of his life with a keen sense of the absurdi ...Show more
The Kowloon Kid: A Hong Kong Childhood by Phil Brown
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of Travels with My Angst and Any Guru Will Do a vivid, nostalgic, and funny memoir of growing up in Hong Kong in the 1960s.Phil Brown's life begins in small town Australia - Maitland to be precise - but in 1963 his father Ted hankers to return to the Hong Kong of his childhood and to cas ...Show more
The Joy of High Places by Patti Miller
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
They didn't know it, but Patti Miller and herbrother, Barney, shared something in common -- a passion for the illuminating joy of wild nature -- with all its challenges and dangers. In this extraordinaryand unexpected book, Patti tells the story of her own long-distance walkingover hundreds of kilometre ...Show more
All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fiction A poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by a prizewinning author. From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most celebrated novelists, comes a startling and beautiful ...Show more