The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary by Anne Frank
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more
Back from Hell by Laurie Woods
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The adrenaline that pumps through the veins of men flying Lancaster bombers over Germany while ack-ack explodes around them is only matched by the gut-wrenching nervousness in their stomach. "Will I be the next statistic?" Shortly after the war the memories keep flooding back through nightmares that are ...Show more
The Queen - 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II (HB) by Ian Lloyd
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I get enormously impressed when she walks into a room,' Princess Margaret once said of her sister. 'It's a kind of magic.' Prince William recalled, 'As I learned growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. What she says goes.'In the year of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, royal biographer Ian Lloyd ...Show more
Beyond the Secret Garden: A Biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett by Ann Thwaite
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Most people have heard of Little Lord Fauntleroy, and of The Secret Garden. Yet few people realize that the same woman wrote both books, 25 years apart, and was considered, along with Henry James, one of the leading writers in America on the strength of the adult novels which made her name in the 1870s ...Show more
Unravelling Us by RENEE MCBRYDE
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In 2017 Renee McBryde published her best-selling memoir in which she learned she was daughter of a convicted murderer, a secret she was made to keep by her mother, shrouding her childhood and early adulthood. In Unravelling Us, Renee delves into the most important relationship in her life, her mother, w ...Show more
Biographic Degas by Katie Greenwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Great Lives in Graphic Form | Reading Level: very good
The Biographic senes presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Edgar ...Show more
Biographic - Dickens - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Michael Robb
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic Ser.
Most people know that Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era, whose works include David Copperfield and Great Expectations. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he invented more than 200 original words and phrases; that he always slept facing north, in an ef ...Show more
Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Called Helga by Todd Alexander
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Once I was the poster boy for corporate success, but now I'm crashing through the bush in a storm in search of a missing pig. How the hell did we end up here? Todd and Jeff have had enough of the city. Sick of the daily grind and workaday corporate shenanigans, they throw caution to the wind and buy 100 ...Show more
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Desert Flower is the compelling autobiography of supermodel Waris Dirie, born into a traditional Somali family of nomads who believed in such archaic customs as female genital mutilation and arranged marriages between prepubescent girls and elderly men, for a dowry of a few goats and camels." "The youn ...Show more
Hana: The Audacity To Be Free by Hana Assafiri
$34.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I am every woman and every woman's quest to be free.' Hana Assafiri is a much loved and revered social activist and radical entrepreneur. Through the medium of food and dining in her now-renowned Moroccan Soup Bar, Hana has worked tirelessly to rectify the systemic and social barriers to women's empow ...Show more
Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more