A Female Genius: How Ada Lovelace Started the Computer Age by James Essinger
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's only legitimate daughter, was rediscovered in the 1930s by pioneers such as Alan Turing, who invented the world's first computer. Four decades on, Ada, a widely-used scientific computer programme, would be named after her. A Female Genius tells the remarkable story of her lif ...Show more
Dog Called Hope by Jason Morgan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When special forces soldier Jason Morgan awoke from a months-long coma, he was told he'd never walk again. Discovered face-down in a Central American swamp after a jungle mission gone wrong, he had a smashed spine, collapsed lungs and countless broken bones. It was a miracle he'd even survived. Months ...Show more
A Double Spring: A Year of Tragedy, Grief and Love by Juliet Darling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Juliet Darling's memoir of the daily events surrounding the murder of her late partner, art curator Nick Waterlow, by his son Antony is a moving story of a deeply personal formative experience. It is a passionate and urgent look at the ordinariness of evil, the intractability of fate, and the interconne ...Show more
A Dad For All Seasons by Esther Rantzen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Your first child will change your life. But what if you have three at the same time! Eleven years ago, Ian Mucklejohn had triplet sons as a single father and was outnumbered three to one from the very beginning. Ian had to do it all by himself: juggle, organise, cook, keep sane, stay calm, and handle ev ...Show more
Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Somer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor by Caroline Stoessinger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At 107 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer is the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, as well as the world's oldest concert pianist. An eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one, she has seen it all. Despite her years of imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration camp and the murd ...Show more
A Clean Break: My Story by Christophe Bassons
$9.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Christophe Bassons is a former professional cyclist. His career was a successful one albeit never in the full glare of the media. That all changed when, in 1998, the Festina doping scandal broke and Bassons shot to fame as one of the handful of clean riders in the peloton - and as the only professional ...Show more
A Certain Light by Cynthia Banham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Life is not defined by the bad things that happen to us. It certainly isn't for me.' Written for her young son so that he would know what had happened to his mother, Cynthia Banham's inspiring family memoir uncovers a true picture of what survival means: 'This book tells a story that I tried to write ma ...Show more
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot i ...Show more
A Baby's Cry by Cathy Glass
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option? Cathy Glass is about to find out. From author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged comes a harrowing and moving memoir about tiny Harrison, left in Cathy's care, and the potentially fatal family s ...Show more
A Bird on My Shoulder by Lucy Palmer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Over a decade ago, award-winning journalist Lucy Palmer's beloved husband Julian died of cancer, leaving her alone to manage a farm south of Sydney and to raise their three young children. This moving and beautifully written memoir explores her experiences of death, loss, single parenting and growing ol ...Show more
9/11 and the Art of Happiness by Simon Kennedy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Political posturing and the outbreak of war make it easy to forget that the real story of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is the sum of the individual family histories that were altered forever within the space of 24 hours. On 11 September 2001, Simon Kennedy's mum boarded flight AA777 to begin her return to ...Show more
9 1/2 Narrow: My Life in Shoes by Patricia Morrisroe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Shoes tell compelling stories, and Patricia Morrisroe, a long-time shoe lover, has a vivid memory of the confirmation 'wedgies' that celebrated her entrance to adulthood; the granny boots that marked her first love; and the New Balance sneakers she bought her elderly mother who was losing her balance an ...Show more