Wait For Me! Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and thei ...Show more
All in Good Time: Reflections of a Watchmaker by George Daniels
$81.00 AUD
Category: Biography
All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels, the master mechanic, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stood alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial ad ...Show more
Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here is a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times. In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old a ...Show more
A Piece of My Mind: A Psychiatrist on the Couch by Gordon Parker (Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Gordon Parker AO, one of Australia's foremost clinical psychiatrists, is known for having strong and provocative views. He's been described as 'charming, witty and erudite', sometimes 'intimidating and intolerant', and 'variously regarded with fear, loathing, admiration and respect'.
The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx by Groucho Marx
$26.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Donated to the Library of Congress in the mid-1960s, Groucho Marx's correspondence was first crafted into this celebration of wit and wisdom in 1967. Reissued today with his original letters and humor intact, "The Groucho Letters" exposes one of the twentieth century's most beloved comedian's private in ...Show more
Playing House by Amy Choi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Playing House is a rare pleasure – a warm and humorous memoir in three parts that subtly reveals what it means to create a family. Firstly working and travelling in Europe, then settling in inner city Melbourne and becoming caregivers to Lydia − a troubled teenager who tests the limits of friendship − a ...Show more
Two Rings: A Story of Love and War by Werber Millie
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Millie Werber was born in central Poland in the town of Radom, she found herself trapped in the ghetto at the age of fourteen, a slave laborer in an armaments factory in the summer of 1942, transported to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944, before being marched to a second armaments factory. She faced deat ...Show more
Beneath The Underdog His World as Composed by Mingus by Charles Mingus
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, shocking, and profoundly moving memoir, is the greatest autobiography ever written by a jazz musician. It ...Show more
My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me by Boris Mihailovic
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Whether you're into dirt bikes, road bikes, ride a Yamaha, scooter or Laverda: if you've ever experienced the primal rush of riding a motor bike, the pain of crashing, the suffering of healing and the epiphanies of speed then this book is for you. My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me is about friend ...Show more
Fishing the River of Time by Tony Taylor
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old grandson, Ned. This trip is an opportunity for Tony to return to a landscape that has had a profound effect on his life and his way of thinking, and to share this place with his grandso ...Show more
House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley by Swingler Susan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers - Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one. Why they were kept apart is the subject of this ...Show more
Dancing with the Devil: A Journey from the Pulpit to the Bench by Christopher Geraghty
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of nearly forty, Christopher Geraghty stopped dancing with the devil and invited another partner out onto the dance floor. A Catholic priest for nearly fifteen years, Geraghty endured bullying and persecution. This, coupled with a desire for intimacy and belonging, eventually caused Geraghty ...Show more