Bibi: My Story by Benjamin Netanyahu
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's sweeping, moving autobiography, one of the most formidable and insightful leaders of our time tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending Israel and securing its future. From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit ...Show more
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
They called for a break, and Gambon magicked up a cigarette from out of his beard. He and I were often to be found outside the stage door, having 'a breath of fresh air', as we referred to it. There would be painters and plasterers and chippies and sparks, and among them all would be me and Dumbledore h ...Show more
Bella Figura: How to Live, Love and Eat the Italian Way by Kamin Mohammadi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A beautiful meditation on the writer's relocation from bustling London to bucolic Florence. It reminded me why I cherish slow living in southern Europe' (Taiye Selasi, Guardian)Made redundant from her job, Kamin Mohammadi flees the bleak streets of London for a friend's sun-dappled apartment in Florenc ...Show more
Behind The Voice: Dietro La Voce by Anthony Callea
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An honest and candid memoir from one of Australia’s most phenomenal voices. Go behind the scenes on this relatable story of self-discovery through determination and humility. These candid, courageous, and often amusing anecdotes take us beyond the slick facade of showbiz, to the hard work, blood, sweat, ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Non Fiction ‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested a ...Show more
My Unapologetic Diaries by Joan Collins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'As brutal, withering and funny as you'd expect' Julian Clary 'A rollicking read, packed with wit and old-school glamour' Sunday Telegraph 'Fabulously entertaining, impossibly glamorous and utterly irresistible' Piers Morgan'Packed with insight and fun' Red *** A keen diarist from the age of twelve, J ...Show more
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy by Alice Sedgwick Wohl
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick as told by her sister with empathy, insight and firsthand observations of her meteoric life. In As It Turns Out, Alice Sedgwick Wohl writes to her brother Bobby, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1965, just before their sister Edie Sedgwic ...Show more
Angela's Ashes: A memoir of childhood by Frank McCourt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father ...Show more
On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life by Lesley Blanch; Georgia de Chamberet
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lifelong passion was for Russia, the Balkans and the Middle East. At heart a nomad, she spent the greater part of her life travelling the remote areas her books ...Show more
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
According to the last Census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden--but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings ...Show more
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"Contexts and Composition History" includes a selection of letters between Washington and his editor, Lyman Abbott, that reveals the process by which Up From Slavery was planned and written. Reviews from The Nation, North American Review, and Colored American Magazine offer examples of contemporary reac ...Show more