The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fa ...Show more
Saul Bellow: Letters by Saul Bellow
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A never-before-published collection of letters-an intimate self- portrait as well as the portrait of a century. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexit ...Show more
Dear Austen by Nina Bawden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Accidents happen to other people. But on On May 10th 2002, Nina Bawden discovered what it feels like to be one of the 'other people'. It was to be a lovely outing to Cambridge for a friend's birthday party. Nina Bawden and her husband Austen Kark boarded the 12:45 from Kings Cross and settled down with ...Show more
Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father Murtaza was murdered, along with six of his associates. In December 2007, Benaz ...Show more
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison by Jordan Belfort
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In this astounding account, Wall Street's notorious bad boy--the original million-dollar-a-week stock chopper--leads us through a drama worthy of "The Sopranos," from the FBI raid on his estate to the deal he cut to rat out his oldest friends and colleagues to the conscience he eventually found. With hi ...Show more
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease." Elegy for Iris" is a story about the ephemeral beaut ...Show more
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma by Jeremy Bernstein
$56.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a puzzle to everyone. The nuclear physicist most responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb, he was a genius both scientifically and otherwise. His standards were impossibly high. He read widely in many languages, wrote poetry, and did superb science. Yet in Jeremy Bernste ...Show more
The Necessary Aptitude : A Memoir by Pam Ayres
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Author Tour 1 - 6 November 2011. An eagerly-awaited country childhood memoir by one of Britain's most-loved personalities. Pam Ayres is one of Britain's best-loved personalities. She appears regularly on TV and radio, and has her own Radio 4 programme Ayres on the Air. She performs her solo stage show ...Show more
Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (movie tie-in cover) by Jean-Dominique Bauby (tr from French Jeremy Leggatt)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.' In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French 'Elle' and the father of tw ...Show more
Life on Air by David Attenborough
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly six decades, and in this volume of memoirs Sir David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places he has visited. His first job - after Cambridge ...Show more
Rainbow Pie - A Redneck Memoir by Joe Bageant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A coming-of-age memoir wrapped around a discussion of America's most taboo subject - social class. Set between 1950 and 1963, Joe uses members of his rambunctious Scots Irish family to chronicle the often heartbreaking post-war journey of 22 million rural Americans into the cities, where they became the ...Show more
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris--a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residenc ...Show more