Perfect Stranger: A True Story by Kay Schubach
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Category: Biography
Kay Schubach almost has it all - a great job, a beautiful apartment, a life of champagne and mixing it with Sydney's A-list, and a steady relationship. By chance she meets handsome and charismatic Simon. He sweeps her off her feet with promises the one thing her younger boyfriend won't give her - a baby ...Show more
Power of Non-Violent Resistance by M. K. Gandhi; Tridip Suhrud (Editor, Introduction by)
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The year 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi's birth, and Penguin Classics presents a short but comprehensive selection of text by Gandhi that speaks to non-violent civil disobedience and activism. In excerpts drawn from his books, letters, and essays--including from ...Show more
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy Dronfield
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The boy is my greatest joy. We strengthen each other. We are one. Inseparable . . . If only we were free; but daily, hourly, death is before our eyes. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germa ...Show more
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new so ...Show more
Keep Clear: My Adventures with Asperger's by Tom Cutler
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It is only after a crack-up, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler gets the diagnosis that allows him to make sense of everything that's come before, including his weird obsessions with road-sign design, magic tricks, spinning tops, and Sherlock Holmes. The final realisation that he has Asperger's allows a ...Show more
First, they Erased Our Name: A Rohingya speaks by Habiburahman, Sophie Ansel
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old, and I don't yet know that I am stateless." Habiburahman was born in 1979 and raised in a small village in western Burma. When he is three y ...Show more
About a Girl: A Mother's Powerful Story of Raising her Transgender Child by Rebekah Robertson
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Transgender
In 2000, Rebekah Robertson gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by the age of three it was clear Georgie was drawn to anything that was pretty or had a skirt that could swirl. Before long Georgie began to insist that she was a girl and b ...Show more
Anne Frank: the Collected Works by Bloomsbury; Anne Frank
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Category: Biography
The first complete edition of Anne Frank's diary and writings, including newly discovered material never before published. Anne Frank: The Collected Works brings together for the first time Anne's world-famous diary, in both the version edited for publication by her father and the more revealing origin ...Show more
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The astonishing lost story of the insane mystic who conquered Mongolia in 1920 and led a cavalry army against the Bolsheviks in Moscow.Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshev ...Show more
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Forgiveness by Hana Yasmeen Ali
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Category: Biography
From the daughter of Muhammad Ali comes an intimate portrait of the heavyweight boxing champion and a final love letter from a daughter to her father.Through audio journals, love letters and cherished memories, Ali's daughter Hana tells the story of a very typical and yet fully-unique family, the rise a ...Show more
Renia's Diary: A Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Renia Spiegel
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
July 15, 1942, Wednesday Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I'm separated from the world. Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia i ...Show more