A Letter to My Teenage Self by Grace Halphen (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Melbourne teenager Grace Halphen had a tough time transitioning to high school - she struggled to make friends and fit in. When she realised this was a common experience, she wondered why she'd felt so alone. When she was 13, she embarked on a project to contact all the public figures she admires, and a ...Show more
The Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
"Based on The Queen of Katwe', a finalist for a National Magazine Award and included in Dave Eggers' The Best American Nonrequired Reading, this is the true story of a female prodigy from the Ugandan slum of Katwe Phiona Mutesi sleeps in a mud hut with her mother and siblings, and struggles to find a me ...Show more
The Voyeur's Motel by Gay Talese
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. 'Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,' the letter began, 'I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its ...Show more
Press Escape by Shaun Carney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The digital revolution was one of the best things to happen to Shaun Carney because it ended his career. When he took a redundancy from his job as associate editor and political writer with The Age, he had to stop to consider whether a 55-year old man still had any value. What had he done with his life? ...Show more
Not all Superheroes Wear Capes by Quentin Kenihan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
When he was a kid, Quentin Kenihan loved Superman. Ironic, really. Quentin didn't need kryptonite to reveal his weakness - born with a rare bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta, his bones broke all on their own. When Quentin was seven, Mike Willesee made a documentary about him. Australians fell in l ...Show more
The Girl Who Climbed Everest: The Inspirational Story of Alyssa Azar, Australia's Youngest Adventurer by Sue Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
"'I have shown myself that nothing is impossible. I'm just a girl from a small town in Australia, but I was always taught to believe in my dreams.' Alyssa Azar is unstoppable. When she was just eight years old, she walked the gruelling Kokoda Track alongside her father, Glenn. At twelve she climbed the ...Show more
Keating by Kerry O'Brien
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of poli ...Show more
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
PRE LOVED - A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect. I'm excited to publish my first book, and because I get uncomfortable when people have high expectations, I'd like to use this opportunity to showcase my inept ...Show more
Beyond Vietnam by Martin Luther King Jr.; Viet Thanh Nguyen (Foreword by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: The\Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut Ser.
With a new foreword by Viet Thanh NguyenA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At New York City's Riverside Church in 1967, Dr. King stood in front of a rapt audience and criticized the Vie ...Show more
A Little Girl in Auschwitz - A Heartwrenching True Story of Survival, Hope and Love by Lidia Maksymowicz; Paolo Luigi Rodari (As told to); His Holiness Pope Francis (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The heartbreaking, inspiring and ultimately hopeful true story of a young girl sent to Auschwitz, who survived the Mengele's pseudo-medical experiments. With a foreword by His Holiness Pope Francis.Lidia Maksymowicz was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandpa ...Show more
Kiki Man Ray - Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just the kaleidoscopically talented Kiki herself, but the endlessly fascinating Montparnasse milieu over which she reigned' Whitney Scharer, author of THE AGE OF LIGHT. Though many have never hea ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me. I ...Show more