Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here is a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times. In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old a ...Show more
Fairfax: The Rise and Fall by Colleen Ryan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Fairfaxandmdash;once a great Australian media companyandmdash;faces a grim future. Newspapers worldwide are faltering in the face of competition from the internet, but the fate of Fairfax stands out as being particularly cruel. The carnage is barely credible. Massive printing plants are being dismantled ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind.' - The Times In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. Ther ...Show more
Option B - Facing Adversity / Resilience by Sheryl Sandberg; Adam Grant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
#1 New York Times Best SellerNamed a Best Book of 2017 by Barnes & Noble and Amazon From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward ...Show more
Gogo Mama: A Journey into the Lives of 12 African Women by Sally Sara
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Gogo Mama intimately profiles the lives of twelve very different African women. They include a genocide survivor from Rwanda; a pygmy who lives in a grass hut at the base of a volcano in the Congo; Zanzibar's most famous living diva; a former child soldier from Liberia; a grandmother fighting AIDS in So ...Show more
Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'What I brought to comedy was an authentic working-class voice plus a threat of genuine violence - nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case who'd kick your head in.' In 1971 comedians on the working men's club circuit imagined that they would be free to go on telling their tired, racist, misogyni ...Show more
Horse Rescue by Joanne Shoenwald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: General Adult
What brings me joy are the inspiring, goose-bumping, enlightening rescue stories of exhilarating triumph, quiet meditative wisdom, life-changing moments and powerful self-healing.' Horses are powerful beyond their physical measures. Through their unique bond to people, horses have the ability to heal, t ...Show more
You Are Not Like Other Mothers by Angelika Schrobsdorff
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As a young woman, Else made two promises to herself: to live life to the fullest and to have a child with every man she loves. So here are the stories of husbands, companions, lovers, and emissaries of a world in which men repeatedly prove themselves inadequate and the stories of Else's three children. ...Show more
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Amy Schumer. Her memoir. Need we say more? Amy Schumer is taking the world by storm. In just a few short years, she's become a huge movie star, writing and starring in Trainwreck, not to mention BFFs with Jennifer Lawrence and Judd Apatow, is a media darling, acclaimed as a subversive comic genius, and ...Show more
Bill - The Life of William Dobell by Scott Bevan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In post-war Australia, William Dobell was a household name. But the most famous artist in the land was a broken man. His Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Joshua Smith was the subject of a sensational legal case, challenging not only Dobell's right to the prize, but the very idea of art itself. Dobell ...Show more
Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living In Paris by Jennifer L. Scott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Have you ever wondered what everyday life is like inside a modern, aristocratic Parisian household - or how the women of Paris always looks so impossibly and seemingly effortlessly chic? The French are notoriously secretive when it comes to their private lives but Lessons from Madame Chic at last reveal ...Show more
The Santaland Diaries by DAVID SEDARIS
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice-scraper. This drinking man's companion can be enjoyed by the warmth of a raging fire, the glow of a brilliantly decorated tree, or even in the back se ...Show more