The Secrets of My Life by Caitlyn Jenner
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Category: Biographies
In this remarkable memoir - written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger during her pivotal first years of rebirth - Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future. With poignancy and humour, Caitlyn writes about her confusion growing up, the temporary triumph of the Oly ...Show more
Rowing the Pacific by Mick Dawson
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Category: Biographies
Storms, fatigue, equipment failure, intense hunger, and lack of water are just a few of the challenges that ocean rower Mick Dawson endured whilst attempting to complete one of the World's 'Last Great Firsts'. In this nail-biting true story of man versus nature, former Royal Marine commando Dawson, a Gu ...Show more
Elizabeth MacArthur: A Life at the Edge of the World by Michelle Scott Tucker
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Category: Biographies
In 1788 a young woman raised in an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In an Austen novel that would be the end of the story, but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning. John Macarthur is credited with establis ...Show more
The Wife's Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam
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Category: Biographies
A Finalist for The Governor General's Award for Nonfiction in Canada In this indelible memoir that recalls the life of her remarkable ninety-five-year old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia--a nation that would undergo a tumultuous transformation from feud ...Show more
A Passion for Speed: The Daring Life of Mildred, the Honourable Mrs Victor Bruce by Paul Smiddy
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Category: Biographies
THE HONOURABLE MRS VICTOR BRUCE: record-breaking racing motorist; speedboat racer; pioneering aviator and businesswoman - remarkable achievements for a woman of the 1920s and '30s. Mildred Bruce enjoyed a privileged background that allowed her to search for thrills beyond the bounds of most female conte ...Show more
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by Barrister, The Secret
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Category: Biographies
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Eye-opening, damning and hilarious' Tim Shipman, author of All Out War and Fall Out"I'm a barrister, a job which requires the skills of a social worker, relationship counsellor, arm-twister, hostage negotiator, named driver, bus fare-provider, accountant, suicide watchman, co ...Show more
How I Got My Wiggle Back by Anthony Field
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Category: Biographies
Part biography, part fitness and health manual, How I Got My Wiggle Back chronicles the life of internationally acclaimed children's entertainer Anthony Field, and details his remarkable victory in a 25-year battle with illness and injury. A riveting and enlightening read, Field candidly reveals his per ...Show more
Cynthia Nolan: A Biography by M. E. McGuire
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Category: Biographies
This biography studies the making of writer and artist's wife Cynthia Nolan, born Violet Cynthia Reed. She was almost forty when she married Sidney Nolan and consigned her past to obscurity. It tracks this brave, elusive figure through historical sources, letters, her novels, the recollections of friend ...Show more
No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface from Patrick Modiano by Francoise Frenkel
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Category: Biographies
A bitter, beautiful and important bookRobert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENTThe French sensation, now in English translation.Fran oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving ...Show more
My Story (Julia Gillard) by Julia Gillard
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Category: Biographies
Featuring new material. 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minis ...Show more
In Search of Mary Shelley: the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
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Category: Biographies
Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain and Europe, as she coped with debt, infidelity and the ...Show more
Princess: Stepping Out Of The Shadows by Jean Sasson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Princess Ser.
In the international bestseller, Princess- The True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, Princess Al-Sa'ud and the acclaimed author Jean Sasson began a remarkable series of books. Now,more than twenty-five years later, this compelling journey continues as we follow the fortunes and the dazzlin ...Show more