A Tumultuous Life - SIGNED by Brian Burke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A Tumultuous Life is my story of my interesting, colourful and controversial life starting in the political cauldron of the Split tearing apart the Australian Labor Party in the 1950s, when I was a young child loving, talking and listening to my father, Tom, who taught me so much about politics and life ...Show more
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea : And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco
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Category: Biography
If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this ...Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days ...Show more
Freedom by Jaycee Dugard
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Category: Biography
Freedom: My Book of Firsts, a memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard, the bestselling author of A Stolen Life, whose widely acclaimed account of being kidnapped at age 11 and remaining a prisoner for 18 years became an international bestseller in 2011. The kidnapping of Ms. Dugard occurred on June 10, 1991 in Sout ...Show more
Is This My Beautiful Life? by Jessica Rowe
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Category: Biography
The fairytale I had dreamt up saw me still blazing ahead with my career, sharing the cooking and cleaning duties with my husband and having neat, tidy and well- behaved children who had beautifully brushed hair. But that was not my life...Journalist, celebrity, television presenter, author, ambassador f ...Show more
A Prescribed Life by Tony Atkinson
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Category: Biography
Tony Atkinson spent his early days suspended in a cage outside the sixth-storey window of his family home in 1920s London. So perhaps he was always destined to see the world differently, and to land in ridiculous, hilarious situations. There was the time he came between Winston Churchill and his bowel m ...Show more
The Convict's Daughter: The Scandal That Shocked a Colony by Kiera Lindsey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A compelling and fast-paced biography of a currency lass born to parents who were emancipated convicts. When 15-year-old Mary Ann Gill attempted to elope with gentleman settler John Kinchela in 1848, they became the focus of a national scandal which was nearly their undoing.
The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity by Puk Damsgard
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Category: Biography
In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held prisoner by Islamic State for thirteen months, along with eighteen other hostages. The ISIS Hostage tells the dramatic and heart-breaking story of Daniel's ordeal and details the misery inflicted upon him by the British guards ...Show more
In the Mouth of the Tiger by Lynette Silver
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Category: Biography
In the Mouth of the Tiger is an epic story of adventure, love, mystery and intrigue set in Malaya, in the colourful and turbulent years before and after World War 2. Nona Orlov, a young Russian refugee abandoned in colonial Penang, falls in love with an Englishman who offers escape from her tawdry hand- ...Show more
How I Met Your Father by Aminah Hart
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Category: Biography
Born in London to an Australian mother and West Indian father, Aminah Hart was brought up in Melbourne by her gutsy single mum, Helen, and devoted grandparents. Despite their loving embrace, she grew into a rebellious teenager only too aware of racial and social prejudice. By her early thirties Aminah s ...Show more
The House on the Hill by Susan Duncan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The third and final memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek. In this memoir, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there's no point in sweating long-term ramifications. There aren't any. This new understanding delivers an unexpected bonus u the emotional freedo ...Show more
Who Knows Tomorrow by Lisa Lovatt-Smith
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Category: Biography
From a glittering life running Vogue to a mud hut in Ghana, a fashion icon now offers hope to thousands of lost children. After an essay contest at 18 landed her a plum internship at Anna Wintour's British Vogue, within a year Lisa Lovatt-Smith became the youngest photo editor in the history of Conde Na ...Show more
Farewell to the Father by Timothy Elliott
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Category: Biography
"Tim Elliott's story - on his father and love against the odds - will split your heart open." Benjamin Law Towards the end of his first serious suicide attempts, my father said the strangest thing to me...Growing up in 1970s Sydney, Tim Elliott had a loving stay-at-home mum, a professional father, three ...Show more