Heida: A Shepherd at the Edge of the World by Steinunn Siguroardottir
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Icelandic Sheep Farmer fighting an energy company
I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. I've been made every offer imaginable over the years. Men offer themselves, their sons...drunk fathers sometimes call me up and say things like: "Do you need a farmhand?" "I can lift the hay ba ...Show more
We are Here : My Family's Courageous Journey to Survive by Cat Thao Nguyen
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Told through the bright and unflinching eyes of Cat Thao, a daughter born in a refugee camp, We Are Here is a memoir that begins in 1975 with her family's gripping exodus by foot out of post-war Vietnam - a dangerous journey, unimaginable to most, on which many perished.
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Stunningly good. Beautiful, smart, raw, sad, poetic and humane... It's the best thing I've read for ages', James Rebanks, author of THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE How does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross? Francisco Cantú was a US Border P ...Show more
A Lot With A Little by Tim Costello
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Australian
In this evocative memoir, Tim Costello explores the people and experiences that have shaped him into a socially active fighter for the world's most challenging issues. Tracing each defining stage of his life with stark insight and honesty, Tim untangles his ongoing struggle to align his self-perception ...Show more
The Weil Conjectures: On Maths and the Pursuit of the Unknown by Karen Olsson
37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Simone Weil: famous French philosopher, writer, political activist, mystic - and sister to André, one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. For Karen Olsson, who studied mathematics at Harvard only to turn to writing as a vocation, the lives and obsessions of these two extraor ...Show more
The Unpunished Vice - A Life of Reading by Edmund White
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader. Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened ...Show more
Passionate Spirit - The Life of Alma Mahler by Cate Haste
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The life of an extraordinary artist and intellect: the composer, author and socialite Alma Mahler, whose life spanned one of the most captivating and dramatic periods in historyBorn into the dying days of the Habsburg Empire, Alma Mahler was at the epicentre of fin de siècle Vienna's artistic and intell ...Show more
A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch by Sanam Maher
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A beautiful woman in winged eyeliner and a low-cut top lies on a bed urging her favourite cricketer to win the next match. In another post, she pouts at the camera from a hot tub. She posts a selfie with a cleric, wearing his cap at a jaunty angle. Her posts are viewed millions of times and the comments ...Show more
Heart by Sandeep Jauhar
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New Statesman A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year The heart l ...Show more
Gloucester Crescent - Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups by William Miller
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady in the van, and the familiar-looking residents crossing the road ...This is the story of the Miller family and their circle of brilliant, idealistic an ...Show more
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A series of fleeting images and memories ... united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose.' - Sally RooneyI am alone here in New York, no longer a we ...First published in 1979, Sleepless Nights is a unique collage of fiction and memoir, letters and essays, portraits and dreams. It is ...Show more
High Adventure: The Adventure Doesn't End When You Become a Dad by Mike Allsop
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What happens when a confirmed adventurer becomes a father? Does he continue his solo adventures? Is there a way of having it all - time with family plus adventures?