A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned.Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This is ...Show more
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi by Robin de Crespigny
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggleris the gripping, inspring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia'.When Ali Al Jenabi flees Saddam Hussein's torture chambers, he is forced to leave his family behind in Iraq. What follows is an incredible international ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick WhitePatrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogr ...Show more
Leila's Secret by Kooshyar Karimi
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$28.00 (17% off)
Category: Biography
Born in a slum, Kooshyar Karimi transformed himself into an award-winning writer as well as a successful doctor, whose conscience won't let him turn away the unmarried women who beg him to save their lives by ending pregnancies that would see them stoned to death. One of those women is Leila. She yearns ...Show more
An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
With a heartfelt introduction from Jane Campion. Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections. Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor ...Show more
Births Deaths Marriages by Georgia Blain
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Category: Biography
A brutally honest account of love, marriage, families and death.It wasn't until years later that I realised the obvious - the difference between us and the mythical normal family I was certain existed, was in fact the fictiona There is always so much more and it swims, shimmering beneath the surface, gl ...Show more
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and f ...Show more
Endurance by Scott Kelly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - what it's like out there and what it's like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and dare to think of your own a little differently. The veteran of four space flights and the American recor ...Show more
Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
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Category: Biography
"Compelling. Brilliant. Revealing. Funny. Inspirational. Extraordinary. Sir Richard Branson s amazing memoir is now updated to include the effect on the Virgin Group of 11 September, his views on the war in Iraq, the rise of Virgin Blue and the flotation of Virgin Mobile. Discover how Virgin is moving i ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the ne ...Show more
H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick by Helen Macdonald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to ...Show more
Light and Shadow Updated Edition: Memoirs of a Spy's son by Mark Colvin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Light and Shadowis the incredible story of a father waging a secret war against communism during the Cold War, while his son comes of age as a journalist and embarks on the risky career of a foreign correspondent. Mark covered local and global events for the ABC for more than four decades, reporting on ...Show more