A Gallery of Cats by Ruth Brown
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Age range 3 to 6 No visit to an art gallery can rival this one! Tom visits a very special exhibition where each picture features a cat. One by one, the cats all leap out and follow him, until a very large, scary cat makes them rush back to the safety of their frames. But these aren't just any cats or an ...Show more
Rebel: My escape from Saudi Arabia to freedom by Rahaf Mohammed
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women ...Show more
Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism' Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeAn epic, multige ...Show more
Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
'As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all...' At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top sell ...Show more
Invisible Child - Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City by Andrea Elliott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty and racism in an unequal America. Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, ...Show more
Victoria: The Woman Who Made the Modern World by Julia Baird
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Fifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth in 1819, Victoria was an ordinary woman thrust into an extraordinary role. Born into a world where women were often powerless, Victoria went on to rule the most powerful country on earth with a decisive hand. As a teenage queen, she eagerly grasped th ...Show more
Anna - The Biography by Amy Odell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
This definitive biography of Anna Wintour chronicles the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would, with singular and legendary focus, become the most powerful woman in media. As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob hair ...Show more
Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Diaries
Finally, Helen Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of her everyday life provide an intimate insight into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers. Ye ...Show more
The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Memoir of Language, Writing & Mortality
On a bright spring day in 2015, as Georgia Blain was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth. Waking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushed to hospital, she tries to answer questions, but is unable to speak. After the shock of a bleak prognos ...Show more
Riverman - An American Odyssey by Ben McGrath
$36.35 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild." --The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers--and then disappeared near the Oute ...Show more
A Previous Life by Edmund White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'Elegant, erudite, raunchy and fun' Andrew Sean Greer 'The best book in Edmund White's long and extraordinary career' Benjamin moser 'Fresh and inventive and wise' Rebecca Makkai A daring, category-confounding and ruthlessly funny novel from Edmund White, exploring polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and ...Show more
Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Robert Menzies claimed the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years of the war, but resigned two years later when he lost the confidence of his party. His political career seemed over, and yet he staged one of the great comebacks to forge a new political party, devise a new g ...Show more