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The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (70th Anniversary Edition) by Anne Frank
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more
Beyond the Secret Garden: A Biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett by Ann Thwaite
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Most people have heard of Little Lord Fauntleroy, and of The Secret Garden. Yet few people realize that the same woman wrote both books, 25 years apart, and was considered, along with Henry James, one of the leading writers in America on the strength of the adult novels which made her name in the 1870s ...Show more
Some Days - A Tale of Friendship, Cancer and Margherita: a Memoir: a Memoir by Lucy Moffatt; Nicola Matthews (Cover Design by); Ashleigh Meikle (Editor); Jennifer Leslie (Prepared for Publication by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more
Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women by Shona Riddell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most of their stories are little-known. Guiding Lights includes stories from around the world, such as the dramatic torching of Puysegur Point, one of New Zealand ...Show more
Three Brilliant Careers by Ross Davies
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Three Brilliant Careers reveals the previously untold story of celebrated author Miles Franklin and two lifelong Australian friends, Nell Malone and Kath Ussher, who met in Chicago in 1914 and reunited a year later in war-torn London. Despite facing enormous risks, the women subsequently travelled to th ...Show more
Rembrandt: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Sophie Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Rembr ...Show more
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: National Trust History & Heritage
To this day, Beatrix Potter's tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A talented artist who became a scientific expert ...Show more
Biographic The Beatles - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Viv Coot
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic Ser.
Most people know that The Beatles (1960-1970) were the most famous pop group of all time, who were at the heart of 1960s counterculture and whose songs transformed the music world. What, perhaps, they don't know is that they have spent more than 1,300 weeks, or 25 years, on the Billboard chart; that the ...Show more