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
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink by William Perry
$50.95 AUD
Category: Biography
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. ...Show more
Valiant for Truth : The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant by Peter Brune; Neil McDonald
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amp ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have said so. What emerged for me was a brave, original wo ...Show more
Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller by Mitch Albom
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age o ...Show more
Conversations with RBG - Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law by Jeffrey Rosen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The audiobook version includes recorded conversations between the two from the 1990s to the present, delivering a compelling informal profile. As a permanent record of Ginsburg's voice and fighting spirit, it's an inspiring listen. -- Paste This program includes recorded conversations between Jeffrey Ro ...Show more
How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--"Half memoir, half polemic, and entirely necessary," (Elle UK) Caitlin Moran's debut--an instant runaway bestseller in the UK--puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of issues with an irreverent, transcendent, and hilarious touch. "Ca ...Show more
My Life in a Pea Soup (Finch Memoir Prize 2012) by LISA NOPS
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The prize is $10,000 and publication. This year's judges: Jacqueline Kent - writer, editor and scriptwriter. Her biographies are The Making of Julia Gillard, An Exacting Heart: The story of Hephzibah Menuhin and A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life Susan Duncan - writer and editor. Her books ...Show more
Let Sleeping Vets Lie by James Herriot
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
With two years experience behind him, James Herriot still feels privileged working on the beautiful Yorkshire moors as assistant vet at the Darrowby practice. Time to meet yet more unwilling patients and a rich cast of supporting owners. Full of hilarious tales of his unpredictable boss Siegfreid Farnon ...Show more
May Gibbs More Than A Fairytale by Robert Holden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
May Gibbs is one of Australia's most loved illustrators - her gumnut babies have been adored by generations of children. In May Gibbs: More than a fairy tale her early life and artistic career are explored in detail. Encouraged by her artistic parents, who met at London's famous Slade School of Art, a y ...Show more