Churchill and Empire - Portrait of an Imperialist by Lawrence James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the SUNDAY TIMES and LITERARY REVIEW, Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young army of ...Show more
Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Wonderful...Carlin's book never shies from the details of this most enduring of American heroes. The divorces, cruelties, years in therapy and his antidepressant fuelled comeback of 2003 are all here' Sunday Times This sweeping biography of one of America's greatest musicians is the first in twenty-fiv ...Show more
Bully For Them - 22 Successful Australians on Hard Lessons Learned by Fiona Scott-Norman (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One of the most difficult things about being bullied is the feeling that nobody else knows what it's like. Twenty-two of Australia's most talented and successful people know exactly what it's like. In candid and entertaining interviews, leading lights from across Australian life recount how they were ...Show more
Boy Lost A Family Memoir by Kristina Olsson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms at a train station in the hot summer of 1950. She was young and frightened, trying to escape a brutal marriage, and in no way prepared for this final blow. Yvonne would not see her son again for nearly 40 years. Kris ...Show more
Boyfriends We've All Had (and Shouldn't Have) by Mandy Nolan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In Boyfriends We've All Had (and Shouldn't Have) Mandy Nolan turns her ascerbic wit onto boyfriends past ...and no one escapes her observations. From the needy besotted drip to the brooding unavailable bad boy, from Mr New Age to Mr Emotional Retard, Mandy has seen them all come and go in her quest for ...Show more
The Boy Who Loved Apples: A Mother's Battle With Her Son's Anorexia by Amanda Webster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When it became clear that Amanda Webster's eleven-year-old son Riche was not just a little too skinny but dangerously ill, people were often surprised. Do boys get anorexia? they would ask. And then, How did he get it? That was the question Amanda asked herself, too. She had trained as a doctor; she kne ...Show more
Blood Brothers - The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel by Elias Chacour; David Hazard; Lynne Hybels (Foreword by); Gabe Lyons (Foreword by); James Baker (Afterword by)
$37.55 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. When tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in 1948, Elias began a long struggle with how to respond. In Blood Brothers, he blends his riveting life story with historical re ...Show more
Born Wild : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions and for Africa. by Tony Fitzjohn
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Born Wild is a story of passion, adventure and skulduggery on the frontline of African conservation. Following Tony Fitzjohn's journey from London bad boy to African wildlife warrior, the heart of the story is a series of love affairs with the world's most beautiful and endangered creatures - affairs th ...Show more
Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid by Margaret Powell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London, fifteen-year-old Margaret's life in service was about to begin. As a kitchen maid the lowest of the low she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Wo ...Show more
Bigwig : The Remarkable Rise and Fall of Tony Mokbel by Liam Houlihan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Finally the story of Tony Mokbel can be told. Top crime writer Liam Houlihan documents the extraordinary rise and fall of the man they call Fat Tony, from his ascension in the drug trade to the decade-long and only-now-complete struggle to hold Mokbel to account for his crimes. Houlihan explores the pol ...Show more
Back to Black: Cilla. The Authorised Photographic Memoir by Cilla Black
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The stunning images contained within these pages celebrate Cilla Black's remarkable showbusiness career. They also celebrate a woman who grew up in the spotlight of international stardom yet was never blinded to the importance of family and friends. Her warm ability to communicate directly with everyone ...Show more
Morrissey Autobiography by Morrissey
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This full-colour edition of Autobiography includes new images chosen by Morrissey and a full Discography of Morrissey's work. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six year ...Show more