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
Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power: Volume 1 by Alastair Campbell
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to "The Blair Years", it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair. "Prelude to Power" is the first of four volumes, and covers the early days of New Labour, culminating in their v ...Show more
The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People 1997-99 by Alastair Campbell
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"Power and the People" is the second of four volumes, and covers the first two years of New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. Volume Two details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to power and settle into running the country. It covers an as ...Show more