Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus by Sandi Toksvig
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years, presenter of QI and GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF star - is an autobiography with a difference: as only Sandi Toksvig can tell it. 'BETWEEN THE STOP ...Show more
Wavewalker - Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' SIMON WINCHESTER 'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy' ...Show more
And Furthermore by Judi Dench
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
I can hardly believe that it is more than half a century since I first stepped on to the stage of the Old Vic Theatre and into a way of life that has brought me the most rewarding professional relationships and friendships. I cannot imagine now ever doing anything else with my life except actin ...Show more
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing st ...Show more
The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code - The extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes by Judith Hoare
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionised how we see the defining problem of our era: anxiety. Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia ... Dr Claire Weekes knew how to treat them, but was dismissed a ...Show more
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
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Category: Biographies
In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan ...Show more
The Women's Doc: True Stories from My Five Decades Delivering Babies and Making History by Caroline de Costa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Funny and poignant stories from the labour ward and from the frontline of campaigns for women's reproductive rights, from Australia's best known obstetrician. 'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology ...Show more
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
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Category: Biographies
In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. ...Show more
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoe Playdon
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Category: Biographies
The never-before-told story of Ewan Forbes and the landmark case that rocked British society and transformed transgender experience to this day' Magnificently researched and told' Lord Michael Cashman CBE 'A landmark work' Baroness Helena Kennedy QC 'Gripping and important' Michael Bronski, author of ...Show more
Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz by Gail Crowther
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Category: Biographies
A vividly rendered and empathetic biography of two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Introduced at a poetry workshop in Boston University, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton formed a friendship that would soon evolve into a fierce rivalry, colored by jealousy and respect ...Show more
Forty Favours the Brave by Lise Carlaw & Sarah Wills
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Category: Biographies
From the creators of the hit podcast FORTY come musings, advice and real-life stories on the highs, lows and unexpected delight of life in your forties. How can I be nearing middle age when twenty-six feels like yesterday? After the craziness of my twenties and hard work of my thirties, what's next? Who ...Show more
Old Rage by Sheila Hancock
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Category: Biographies
'Her gift for directly communicating the open-heartedness and spirit of adventure with which she confronts her life - is the stuff of bestsellers' Joan Bakewell, Guardian Sheila Hancock looked like she was managing old age. She had weathered and even thrived in widowhood, taking on acting roles that wo ...Show more