Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
Second Suns by David Oliver Relin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project. Tabin was the high-achie ...Show more
Minefields by Hugh Riminton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Over nearly 40 years as a journalist and foreign correspondent, Hugh Riminton has been shot at, blown up, threatened with deportation and thrown in jail. He has reported from nearly 50 countries, witnessed massacres in Africa, wars and conflicts on four continents, and every kind of natural disaster. It ...Show more
Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue by Marc Spitz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An examination of Mick Jagger's spectacular life and the cultural revolution he led as the legendary front man of the Rolling Stones. As the Rolling Stones celebrate their fiftieth anniversary, their legendary front man remains an enigma; he hasn't given an in-depth interview in a decade and a half. Dra ...Show more
The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope by Nancy Tucker
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. She thought, and thought, and then, though she didn't know why, she wrote: 'I want to be thin.' Over the next twelve years, she developed anorexia nervosa, was hospitalised, and finally swung the other way tow ...Show more
Talking About a Revolution by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
With her trademark optimism, sass, boldness and search for answers, across a collection of new and revisited essays, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explores resistance, transformation, and revolution. Yassmin Abdel-Magied started out a dynamic, optimistic, naive, youthful grass-roots organiser and oil rig worker ...Show more
Zarifa - A Woman's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights.I am one of the lucky ones.I got out of Afghanistan alive when the Taliban retook the country. Millions of others did not - they are now living under one of the world's most repressive regimes, with any ...Show more
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and bru ...Show more
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton by Joe Moshenska
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips 'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' Spectator For most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightle ...Show more
A Waiter in Paris - Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door...is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you below the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world and right into its glorious un ...Show more
Nothing But The Truth: Stories of Crime, Guilt and the Loss of Innocence by The Secret Barrister
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Just how do you become a barrister? And why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession? If it's such a great occupation, how come you work 100-hour weeks for less than minimum wage? And why might a practising barrister come to feel the need to reveal ...Show more
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
<b>'Polly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the eye and mind in equal measure.' Alain de Botton</b> <i>A Fortunate Woman</i> is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and ...Show more