Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr by King Martin Luther
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Compiled from his own words, this history-making autobiography IS Martin Luther King: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who constantly questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his wisdom; the loving husband and fat ...Show more
The Strength of Hope: A Holocaust Survivor's Guide to Love and Life by Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
One of most uplifting stories you will ever read. Abram Goldberg is a beacon of joy and optimism, and a master of keeping perspective. The day Abram and his mother arrived at Auschwitz death camp they both knew it would be her last. In their final moment together, Abram's mum urged her nineteen-year-old ...Show more
Heartstrong by Ellidy Pullin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'If not with you, then for you.' It was a perfect Wednesday morning when Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin kissed his partner, Ellidy, goodbye to go spearfishing. Most days Ellidy would go to the beach too, but that day she didn't. Later, there was a knock at the door. A man had been found unconscious on the ocean ...Show more
Spare by The Duke of Prince Harry Sussex
$59.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century- two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their li ...Show more
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman ...Show more
The John Lennon Letters by HUNTER DAVIES (ed)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
John Lennon was a writer as well as a musician. It was entirely natural for him to put pen to paper whenever he had an idea, a thought, a reaction or a desire to communicate. He lived - and died - in an age before emails and texts. Pen and ink was what he turned to. John wrote letters and postcards all ...Show more
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Perfect for fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed. Stephanie Land delves into the tenacity and anxiety of living – nay, surviving on poverty-level wages and intolerable working conditions. Amidst exhausting mental and physical efforts, the proverbial bootstraps bind ...Show more
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship - The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was also highly intelligent, reading widely and writing poetry. Of Nancy's many affairs the five included in this book are the ones with the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley an ...Show more
Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with ...Show more
A Scar is Also Skin (PB) by Ben Mckelvey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From bestselling author Ben Mckelvey comes the inspiring story of stroke, heart attack, survival and remaking a broken body and mind. A book for those who bought Sarah Wilson's First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Osher Gunsberg's Back, After the Break and Emma Carey's The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. ...Show more
Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates by Eleanor Hogan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An original and riveting biography of two of the most singular women Australia has ever seen.Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Daisy Bates, dressed in Victorian garb, malnourished and half-blind, camped with Aboriginal people in Wes ...Show more
Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent? As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her husband's a ...Show more