Locked In: One Man's Miraculous Escape from the Terrifying Confines of Locked-in Syndrome by Richard Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The noises were fuzzy in the darkness. Like hearing a domestic dispute through an apartment wall. As a cop, it was a scenario I'd experienced many times as I'd approached a stranger's front door. But this was different. This time I wasn't going anywhere. I wasn't moving at all. Couldn't move at all.' I ...Show more
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dylan Thomas' letters to the many women in his life are among the most emotive, lyrical and beautiful that he wrote. Full of humour, longing and uninhibited honesty, these letters include those written to his wife Caitlin and his childhood sweetheart, Vera Philips.
Deep Field - Behind the Frontlines of Aid Relief: from Pakistan to Kazan, the Punjab to the Pacific by Tom Bamforth
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
'Deep Field' is a UN term for humanitarian operations that take place in extremis - amid the destruction caused by war and natural disaster, beyond the boundaries of what is controllable and known. This book takes the reader 'deep field' in the footsteps of Tom Bamforth, an aid worker responding to the ...Show more
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers (Royal Society of Literature)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
F. Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who exquisitely personified the decades between the two world wars, was a gifted, acclaimed author who nonetheless "could neither change his domestic life nor stop writing about it." Jeffrey Meyers offers a frank, ambitious foray into Fitzgerald's privat ...Show more
Rock Me Gently by Judith Kelly
$23.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In the 1950s, shortly after her father's death, Judith Kelly was left in the care of nuns at a Catholic orphanage while her mother searched for a place for them to live. She was eight years old. Far from being cared for, Judith found herself in a savage and terrifying institution where physical, emotion ...Show more
All That Happened at No. 26 by Denise Scott
$19.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I'll never forget the first time John and I saw number 26. We just knew it was going to be ours. It was so awful and ugly and repulsive in every way, not to mention the fact that it was located in a suburb I had sworn I'd rather die than live in, that we knew we had a great chance of getting it.' And s ...Show more
Run for Your Life by Jill Joliffe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Forced into adoption and taken in by a violent household, the course of Jill Jolliffe's life was set before she had time to choose. She ran away as a teen and has been running ever since. Jolliffe became a thorn in the establishment's side and earned herself a hefty ASIO file in the process. Following h ...Show more
Fighter Pilot by Mac 'Serge' Tucker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The candid adventures of a real-life Top Gun Mac Tucker—or "Serge," to use his callsign name—is one of an elite group of men trained to fly F-18 jets. Now, for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal what it's really like. Find out how it feels to be shot ...Show more
Not For the Faint Hearted The Life and Times of Garry Evans by EVANS GARRY
$29.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels--including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Ho ...Show more
Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce by Sylvia Jukes Morris
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
"I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die," Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. "Price of Fame, "the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce's progress from the early months of World War II, when, as an eye-catching Congresswom ...Show more
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story. Despite exhaustive searches, no trace of Rockefeller was ...Show more