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
Margaret Whitlam by Susan Mitchell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Controversial wife of a former prime minister, Margaret is a household name and an Australian identity in her own right. Many people already feel as if they know her and they do, in a sense. However this biography reveals, for the first time, the private life behind the public events to which she was bo ...Show more
The Churchills : A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill by Mary S. Lovell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: good
'There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroe ...Show more
Hitch-22 - A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Over the last thirty years Christopher Hitchens has established himself as one of the world's most influential public intellectuals. His originality, bravery, range and wit made him first a leading iconoclast of the political left, and then later a formidable advocate of secular liberalism. As a sociali ...Show more
The Obamas : A Mission, a Marriage by Jodi Kantor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together they planned a White House life that would be as normal and sane as possible. Then they moved in. In ...Show more
Letters to My Daughter by Sir Robert Menzies
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
As Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and the founder of the Liberal Party, Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in our political and cultural history. Letters to My Daughter is a collection of letters written by Menzies to his only daughter, Heather, throughout the fifties, sixties and seven ...Show more
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into run ...Show more
Bossypants by Tina Fey (Read by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both ...Show more