To Me, He Was Just Dad: Stories of Growing Up with Famous Fathers by Joshua David Stein
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Those searching for a moving Father's Day gift need look no further."--Publishers WeeklyMen like John Wayne and John Lennon, Nolan Ryan and Bruce Lee, Cesar Chavez, Christopher Reeve, and Miles Davis have touched the lives of millions. But at home, to their children, they were not their public personas ...Show more
The Kennedy Curse: Six Generations of Adultery, Addiction, and Tragedy by James Patterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Those who dwell in the House of Kennedy work hard, live hard, and win at all costs. But just how much has it cost them? The Kennedy name is synonymous with American royalty. The family commitment to public service is legendary and enduring. But all their wild charisma has been dashed by disgrace and tra ...Show more
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - My family, the holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home office, and piles of children's books for when my ...Show more
Merle Thornton: Bringing the Fight by Merle Thornton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An engaging, lively, provocative and, above all, inspiring memoir from one of our home-grown, unsung feminist heroes, Merle Thornton, who has lived a life full of daring, defiance and activism. Merle Thornton is one of Australia's most delightful, formidable and game-changing pioneering feminists - ...Show more
Thinking Again by Jan Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A second volume of Jan Morris' diaries, life through the eyes of a legendary writer in her ninth decade.
As if by Chance by David Lan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
David Lan's evocative, fast-paced memoir takes us all over the globe, introducing us to an extraordinary cast of characters, places and experiences, both on stage and off.
The Soul of Care - The Moral Education of a Husband and Doctor by Arthur Kleinman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Dr Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In The Soul of Care, he delivers a de ...Show more
The Book of Gutsy Women by Clinton, Hillary Rodham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there’s a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have m ...Show more
The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her si ...Show more
Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Cecil Beaton was one of Britain's greatest cultural icons - not just as a photographer capturing some of the most celebrated portraits of the 20th century but also as designer of the iconic sets and costumes for the films My Fair Lady and Gigi. In 1980, Beaton personally chose Hugo Vickers to be his bi ...Show more
The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money and Other People Can't by William Leith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Some people can make money. Other people can't. It's a thought that makes William Leith wake up in cold sweats. He doesn't know why it makes him feel anxious. After all, money isn't real. We created it. Humans did. It's our masterpiece. But the desire for it is killing us. It is this dilemma that sets W ...Show more
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by LE CARRE JOHN
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times ...Show more