Clara's War by Clara Kramer
$34.95 AUD
$37.99 (8% off)
Category: Biography
"NO ONE COULD TELL ME THAT DESPITE THE OCCASIONAL POGROM, I WASN'T BORN INTO THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS" - Clara Kramer. Clara Kramer was a typical Polish Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, her family home was given to a Volksdeutsch ...Show more
Cinderella Man - The James J. Braddock Story by Michael C. DeLisa
$4.26 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1934, Jim Braddock was down and out. His boxing career blighted by broken hands, the New York Irishman had won five of his previous 21 bouts and had been forced to quit. The Great Depression was at its height. When work dried up on the Hudson River docks, Braddock was forced to claim welfare relief t ...Show more
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From London's inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill's eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill's death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on ...Show more
Chosen By A Horse: How A Broken Horse Fixed A Broken Heart by Susan Richards
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Susan Richards agrees to take on one of the abused horses just rescued by the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a new chapter opens in her turbulent life. Caring for this astonishingly trusting creature, she begins a relationship that will change her view of the world. Susan R ...Show more
Chopper 3: How to Shoot Friends & Influence People by Mark Read
$14.99 AUD
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Category: Biography
"Crims and screws agree on one thing: that the people who run prisons wouldn't know if a tram was up them unless you rang the bell." How to Shoot Friends and Influence People, Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read's third book, was written behind bars as Chopper faced life in prison for a shooting he claimed he d ...Show more
Choir Man by Jonathon Welch
$35.00 AUD
$36.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography
He is the man who brought you the award-winning Choir of Hard Knocks - made up of the homeless and the disadvantaged - the judge on Battle of the Choirs, a highly renowned opera singer and conductor who has worked with some of Australia's most talented performers. But Jonathon Welch's own story is less ...Show more
The Children's House of Belsen by Hetty Verolme
$15.00 AUD
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Category: Biography
Hetty Werkendam, oldest of three children of a Jewish family in Amsterdam, was thirteen years old when in 1943 she was was transported with her parents and brothers to the repatriation camp at Westerbork. From there the family was sent to Belsen, where Hetty was separated from her parents to live in the ...Show more
A Child at Heart - Story of a Foster-Child by Chris Baxter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A Child at Heart is the soul-stirring true story of a child in foster care. Five-year-old Marie needed a home for 'only a few weeks'. Like a tsunami, her arrival overwhelmed the comfortable and ordered lives of the author and his wife. The 'few weeks' stretched into months, then years. Imperceptibly ...Show more
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
$22.99 AUD
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Category: Biography
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot i ...Show more
A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him near ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
$32.99 AUD
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Category: Biography
Charlotte Bront famously lived her life in a parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and creative siblings. Claire Harman's biography transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to rebellion and ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previ ...Show more