In the Time of the Manaroans by MIRO BILBROUGH
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
‘A lost world of hippies and drifters breaks into gleaming life in these pages. Miro Bilbrough trains a poet’s tender, unsparing gaze on growing up female in the anything-goes 1970s. In the Time of the Manaroans lucidly portrays the visions and limits of the counter-culture, as well as all the fearful e ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
It’s a Shame About Ray: A Memoir by Jonathan Seidler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY is an extraordinary and powerful memoir about family, love and the power of music. What tracks combine to make a family album? What do we carry from one generation to a next? What is the difference between leaning on and letting go? Blackly funny and frequently devastating, this m ...Show more
He by Murray Bail
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, 'he wouldn't know what day it is'. An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiogr ...Show more
The Wonder of Little Things by Vince Copley, Lea McInerney
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A First Nations Elder shares his extraordinary story of finding kindness in the midst of prejudice, and joy in living life to the full 'A powerful tale that tells a different story of our country' Bruce Pascoe'A great Australian book about a great Australian' Paul Kennedy'Told with heart' Ali Cobby Ecke ...Show more
A Brilliant Life : My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Rachelle Unreich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around ...Show more
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. *A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED PRIZE 2021* Determined not ...Show more
Ballet Confidential: A Personal Behind-the-Scenes Guide by David McAllister
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Beyond the formidable combination of tulle and lycra, how much can an audience ever truly understand about the demands of being a ballet dancer? What really is the pain and pleasure of pointe shoes and jockstraps? Can a wardrobe malfunction derail a scene? What happens when injury sidelines a principal ...Show more
Adapting by Mary Holliday
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Born in Ireland into a patrilineal inheritance system, Mary Holliday recognised early on that there was no future for her in the stanchly Church-controlled Ireland of the mid-20th Century. Her "best" prospects were an approved husband followed by decades of rampant baby making and domestic drudgery. Yet ...Show more
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Anniversary Edition
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' S ...Show more
Big Love: Reclaiming myself, my people, my country by Brooke Blurton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities My story is about the one thing that I never went without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like there was a future for me. The kin ...Show more
Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a 20th-century soldier, adventurer and leader by Ranulph Fiennes
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An enthralling and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the inspiration for the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes Co-opted by the British military, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revol ...Show more