Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In 1967, after a session with a doctor she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital that was as renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, ...Show more
The Still Point of the Turning World: A Mother's Story by Emily Rapp
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, level-headed but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages and gi ...Show more
Waging Peace by Anne Deveson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of experiences in public and private life to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelong preoccupations have been the questioning of war, and the promotion of peace. Deveson tells of ...Show more
One Crowded Hour - Neil Davis, Combat Camerman 1934-1985 by Tim Bowden
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
One Crowded Hour is the bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest combat cinecameramen and an extraordinary Australian. First published in 1987, One Crowded Hour remains a must-read for aspiring photographers, cinematographers, journalists and war buffs. For over twenty years, from the early ...Show more
Madeleine - A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of fifteen Madeleine saw herself as a painter and pianist, but Ms Medway peereddown at Madeleine during her entrance interview in 1957 and announced: 'You know dear, I thinkyou might write.' Madeleine would write. But not for some time. The Women in Black, a sparkling gem that beliedthe diff ...Show more
Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades, including twenty-three years as cohost of Siskel & Ebert at the Movies. ...Show more
Captain Paul Watson: Interview with a Pirate by Paul Watson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The behind-the-scenes true story of Paul Watson, the world's most famous eco-pirate and marine animal rights activist. Paul Watson became an animal rights activist at the young age of eleven, in 1962. When trappers killed a beaver that Paul had befriended, he systematically and efficiently located and d ...Show more
The Shape of the Eye: A Memoir by George Estreich
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"[An] elegantly written, unsentimental memoir."--PEOPLE MAGAZINE [PEOPLE's Pick of the Week] When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance presents a puzzle: does the shape of her eyes indicate Down syndrome, or the fact that she has a Japanese grandmother? In this powerful memoir, George Estreich, a poe ...Show more
His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he's applied his fascination with that stage of life to his own, from his bizarre first memories to the embarrassments of adolescence. For all his working life Goldsworthy has been both ...Show more
The Bush Orphanage by John Hawkins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Bush Orphanage is a story in two parts. Part I is the personal life story of John Hawkins, who as a seven-year-old British orphan, was sent to Australia as part of the British Child Migration Scheme, despite having a loving foster family in London who desperately wanted to adopt him. In Australia, J ...Show more
Left for Dead: A True Story of Resilience and Courage by Sue Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Samantha Barlow, policewoman and mother of two young children, was brutally attacked with a brick on her way to work at Kings Cross Police Station and left for dead. Her injuries were horrendous, and she came close to death.
Mountain Heroes: Portraits of Adventure by Huw Lewis-Jones
$44.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Through the lives of legendary climbers and mountaineers, "Mountain Heroes" presents an epic account of endurance, enterprise, heroism and fellowship in the wildest of places. Come face to face with those who have spent their lives at altitude: explorers and pioneering travelers, intrepid ice climbers a ...Show more