Nancy Mitford by Nancy Mitford
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
What was Nancy Mitford's wicked sense of humour really like? The writer and poet Harold Acton was - like Nancy Mitford herself - one of the Bright Young Things and a life-long close friend with whom she stayed in touch from Paris and London. From the letters and materials she had been gathering for her ...Show more
Once Upon a Secret by Mimi Alford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In 1963, Mimi Beardsley was a naive young American girl, very much a product of her class and time - she had attended the same exclusive girls' school as Jackie Bouvier, now installed in the White House as the president's wife, which is also where Mimi found herself, as an 18-years-old intern. The JFK W ...Show more
All of It by Bev Aisbett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Bestselling author Bev Aisbett's no-nonsense text, combined with her insightful cartoon images, have reassured countless people seeking help for anxiety. Now, she reveals the deep spirit that lies behind these deceptively simple books. All of It is an unflinching self-examination, an exploration of Bev' ...Show more
Bad Bridesmaid : True Tales of Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums by Siri Agrell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Bad Bridesmaid: an underachieving, inadequate, sinful, vulgar, naughty or disobedient bridal attendant. Usually characterized by eye-rolling, drunkenness, lack of pantyhose and an overdrawn bank account. Siri Agrell didn't mean to become a bad bridesmaid. It just kind of happened when she innocently ask ...Show more
Say It Again in a Nice Voice by Meg Mason
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'Mothers. Those women with purses the size of meat trays that hold an entire deck of school portrait photos and a chequebook, make a casserole without a recipe, make the tightest bed you'll ever sleep in and only swear under extreme duress. How, how, would I go from me to that?' At 24, Meg Mason was new ...Show more
A Global Life: My Journey Among Rich and Poor, from Sydney to Wall Street to the World Bank by James D. Wolfensohn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
James D. Wolfensohn is one of the business world's most successful and unconventional figures - an expat Aussie and former World Bank President who has gone on to channel his personal success into the struggle against poverty. In this illuminating autobiography, co-written with award-winning journalist ...Show more
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman ...Show more
Westbrook: Surviving Australia's Most Sadistic Reformatory by William Stokes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
At 14, William Stokes was sentenced to Westbrook Farm Home for Boys after committing a series of petty crimes. Westbrook was then the most feared institution for boys in Queensland. Stokes' story of his years at Westbrook catalogue the horrors endured by children and young adults at the hands of the aut ...Show more
Lives by Peter Robb
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In Lives, an extraordinary writer encounters some remarkable people - and evokes their inner lives. Peter Robb has an uncanny ability to get into the skin of other people- to show them in a new light, to home on what makes them tick. In Australia, these range from Alex Dimitriades to Ivan Milat, from Ma ...Show more
Harry M. Miller by Harry M. Miller
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Harry M Miller is an extraordinary character who has led and continues to lead a remarkable life. Not long after flogging his last saucepan in an New Zealand department store, Miller set out to become one of the world s youngest showbiz impresarios, and it wasn t long before that determination led to th ...Show more