Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat by Andrew Brown
$35.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Joseph Rotblat's life poses deep and important questions about conscience, science and society. This biography presents the full story, from his childhood lived out under anti-Semitism, family tragedy at the hands of the Nazis; work on Britain's nuclear programme; and his single-minded dedication to nuc ...Show more
And Then Life Happens: A Sister's Memoir by Auma Obama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
While her younger brother Barack grew up in the US and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of the siblings' shared father. Barack and Auma met for the first time in the 1980s, and they built a lasting relationship which ...Show more
Extreme South by James Castrission
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
On 31 October 2011 James Castrission and Justin Jones set out to achieve 'one of the last great polar adventures' - an unsupported return journey from the edge of the Antarctic continent to the South Pole. This is a quest that has been attempted by many experienced polar explorers before them...and all ...Show more
The Dirty Life: A Story of Farming the Land and Falling in Love by Kristin Kimball
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From a writer who traded her single life in the big city to marry a farmer, this is a true story of about falling in love with a man and with a different way to live, complete with runaway piglets and dew-fresh lettuce, sceptical locals and a wedding in a hayloft.
Man in a Grey Suit by Glenn Orgias
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I caught a wave and paddled back out. I was just inside the crowd when I ducked a small wave and it left white water boiling around me. A lump of swell came from the north. It reared as it approached the sand bank. I changed direction, and paddled towards it. I didn't see it. It came from behind, and b ...Show more
Gough Whitlam: His Time by Jenny Hocking
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Recreates the excitement of Whitlam's historic win in 1972, forces that never accepted his ascendency &the tragedy that followed. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, interviews with family, colleague sand with the man himself, this second volume finally exposes the truth about the Whitla ...Show more
To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Originally published in 1949, TO HELL AND BACK was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More than fifty years later, this classic wartime memoir is just as gripping as it was then. Desperate to see action but rejected by both mar ...Show more
Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918 by Harry Kessler
$65.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler--patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat--present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle epoque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by th ...Show more
Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The deeply moving memoir of a child with an unbreakable spirit. The house on Mary Street, Carson City, Nevada is the only place five-year-old Jennifer Lauck will ever call home. It's where the sky is deep blue, forever blue, and there are almost never any clouds up there. It's where Jennifer lives wi ...Show more
Drink Smoke Pass Out by Judith Lucy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey takes us on Judith's path from being a child so Catholic that she wanted to be a nun, to a genuinely curious adult looking for meaning - via atheism, advanced yoga, astral travel and a whole lot more. Based on the popular ABC television series of the same name, this book ...Show more
Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss and Moving Forward by Lisa Niemi Swayze
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mother's dance studio. He was older and just a bit cocky; she was the gorgeous waif who refused to worship the ground he walked on. It didn't take long for them to fall in love. Their thirty-four year marriage -- which they explored together in ...Show more
Not Your Ordinary Housewife: How the Man I Loved Led Me into a World I Had Never Imagined by Nikki Stern
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How does a young girl, educated at Melbourne's exclusive MLC, with degrees in Science and Design, become Australia's best-known porn star - The Horny Housewife? Nikki Stern had a very privileged start in life. Her father was in Who's Who and her mother was once a famous ballerina. Having graduated from ...Show more