Letter to Louis by Alison White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is a memoir about hope - hope in others, hope in systems, and hope for the future. I've never quite known where to begin when someone asks me what I've been up to. I've never quite known how to explain what our daily life is like. I wanted to write how it is in order to give others a greater unders ...Show more
Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Tony Kelly, Rebecca Lister
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Rebecca Lister and Tony Kelly move from Melbourne to Mount Isa to care for Rebecca's elderly mother, Diana, they have no idea what they've signed up for. The isolation, sweltering heat and limited employment opportunities make settling into the mining town a challenge. While Rebecca deals with her ...Show more
For the Record by David Cameron
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
David Cameron was elected Conservative leader in 2005, promising to modernize the party following its three successive electoral defeats. He became Prime Minister in 2010, forming Britain's first coalition government in 70 years, at a moment of economic crisis, and went on to win the first outright Cons ...Show more
Interrupted Melody the Story of My Life by Marorie Lawrence
$38.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, a ...Show more
There Are Things I Want You to Know about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson; Marie-Francoise Colombani (Contribution by); Linda Coverdale (Translator)
$33.99 AUD
Category: Biography
There is only one person who can tell Stieg Larsson's story better than he can, and that is his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. This is her book.The keys to the "Stieg Larsson phenomenon" all lie with Stieg Larsson the man. No one knew him like Gabrielsson. Here, she tells the story of their 30-yea ...Show more
Displaced - A Rural Life by John Kinsella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
John Kinsella's memoir of his rural life takes us deep into the heart of what it means to belong and unbelong. The joys and travails of childhood, adult addictions, missteps and changing directions are acutely captured in poignant and poetic detail. While centred on Jam Tree Gully in rural Western Austr ...Show more
Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil by Yvette Manessis Corporon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's stories about how the people of their tiny Greek island Erikousa banded together to hide a Jewish family-a tailor named Savvas and his daughters-from the Nazis during World War II. Decades later, Yvette couldn't get Savvas's story out of he ...Show more
A Lasting Conversation: Stories on Ageing by Susan Ogle (Editor); Melanie Joosten (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A Lasting Conversation, Stories on Ageing explores many a spec ts o f ageing including resilience and defeat, satisfaction and reg ret, excitement and fear, love, loss and laughter. These stories are written from various perspectives, including older women and men, their daughters and sons, grandchildre ...Show more
Let Me Go by Casey Watson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Harley, 13, has been sectioned under the mental health act after attempting suicide. She was spotted climbing the railings on a footbridge that crossed a busy motorway and pulled to safety by a memb ...Show more
Every Conceivable Way: One Couple's Extraordinary Journey to Parenthood over Nine Years and Three Continents by Despina Meris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
New Yorker Despina Meris had always imagined her future with children in it. After falling in love and moving to Australia in her early twenties and battling cancer at age thirty, she and her husband Bill finally settled down to baby-making - only to have miscarriage after miscarriage. They tried IVF, w ...Show more
The Adversary by Ronnie Scott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In a house in Brunswick, summer is coming, and a young man is being strongly encouraged to go outside against his will. He says he's not a shut-in, but he certainly acts like one, spending all day taking hot showers and eating Vegemite toast. But when his housemate and best friend, Dan, gets a boyfriend ...Show more
William Holmes: The Soldier's General (HB) by Geoffrey Travers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography