Last Truck Out by Betty Lockyer
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WWII, 1942 - Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal families were being trucked to Beagle Bay Mission, 12 ...Show more
My Place by Sally Morgan
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
My Place begins with Sally Morgan tracing the experiences of her own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - a ...Show more
Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriterSinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her landmark recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a photograph of ...Show more
My Mother the Spy: The Daring and Tragic Double Life of ASIO Agent Mercia Masson by Cindy Dobbin, Freda Marnie Nicholls
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The true story of an undercover ASIO agent who was hung out to dry in the Cold War. 'I have lost everything in coming here. I have lost my friends... I have probably lost my position; I shall probably have to remove my child from the school and my mother from the house in which she lives. I do not thin ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by Dame Judi Dench
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before. Internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent is a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare. 'A MAGICAL LOVE LETTER ...Show more
The Digger of Kokoda: The Official Biography of Reg Chard by Daniel Lane
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Reg Chard endured hell as an 18-year-old Australian soldier who fought in 1942 on the infamous Kokoda Trail. Ironically, Kokoda rescued Reg decades later when he decided to take his own life. After losing Betty, his wife of 66 years, the grief-stricken great-grandfather lost the will to live. But he fo ...Show more
War In Val D'orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
9.99 AUD
24.99 (60% off)
Category: Biography
War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing with simplicity and grace, Iris Origo describes how she and her husband managed to help refugee children from Genoa and Turin, hide escape ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Film Tie In Edition) by J. D. Vance
9.99 AUD
24.99 (60% off)
Category: Biography
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Coming November 2020 as a major motion picture starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close 'The political book of the year' Sunday Times 'A frank, unsentimental, harrowing memoir ... A superb book' New York Post 'I bought this to try to better understand Trump's appeal ... but th ...Show more
Waypoints by Sam Heughan
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Journey deep into the Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of Outlander Sam Heughan - exploring his life and reflecting on the waypoints that define himIn this intimate journey of self-discovery, Sam Heughan sets out along Scotland's rugged West Highland Way to ...Show more
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself ...Show more
Year of the Monkey: The New York Times bestseller by Patti Smith
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Magical' GUARDIAN'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE'Extraordinary ... A tense, teasing mix of reality and dream' Sunday Times'A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith's third memoir' BBC'Her willingness ...Show more
Stories of Hope - Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more