Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Perfect for fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed. Stephanie Land delves into the tenacity and anxiety of living – nay, surviving on poverty-level wages and intolerable working conditions. Amidst exhausting mental and physical efforts, the proverbial bootstraps bind ...Show more
Duterte Harry: The Rise of One of the World's Most Dangerous Leaders by Jonathan Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens - all with his encouragement.Duterte is a serial womaniser and a self-confessed killer, who has called bot ...Show more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: a life by Jane Sherron de Hart
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'A vivid account of a remarkable life' --The Washington Post In this bestselling comprehensive, revelatory biography -- fifteen years of interviews and research in the making -- historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice, her adv ...Show more
The Flying Nurse: Saving lives and swaddling babies from outback Australia to Africa and beyond by Prudence Wheelwright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Nurse and midwife Prue Wheelwright has worked in the most remote parts of Australia and around the world. In isolated, far-flung locations and on dangerous frontlines, this passionate and dedicated nurse has put her heart, and often her safety, on the line, day after day, year after year. Prue shares al ...Show more
Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill: The Private and Personal Letters by All Sir Winston S.; Packwood Churchill
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Letters for the Ages Ser.
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President ...Show more
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschlager
$75.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism. In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his career, he risked everything to pursue his ...Show more
Working Stiff by Judy Melinek; T. J. Mitchell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dr Judy Melinek has made a career out of working with dead bodies. As a forensic pathologist, she has probed and prodded corpses for clues that may reveal murder, suicide, a medical accident or a rare genetic disease This fearless memoir tells the gripping story of the young doctor's 'rookie season' as ...Show more
Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Helen Elliott’s Eleven Letters to You is a profoundly original memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, before feminism. This sparkling, wonderfully absorbing book is written in the form of eleven letters to those neighbours, relatives, friends, ...Show more
Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius by Dermot Turing
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. His codebreaking work at Bletchley Park was so significant it helped to shorten the Second World War, and with Tommy Flowers he built the first compu ...Show more
I Shot Daddy: She Killed Her Father to Protect Her Sister by Stacey Lannert
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On July 4, 1990, eighteen-year-old Stacey Lannert shot and killed her father, who had been sexually and emotionally abusing her since she was eight. She suffered terrifying abuse at the hands of her unstable, alcoholic father for ten years until the night she realised he was turning his attention toward ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more