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The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
Sam Bloom: Heartache and Birdsong (HB) by Cameron Bloom; Samantha Bloom; Bradley Trevor Greive
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The follow-up to the ABIA award-winning, internationally bestselling sensation Penguin Bloom. The heart-warming Australian story Penguin Bloom - the miraculous tale of a baby magpie that helped save a young mother and her family - is a homegrown and international bestseller; soon to be a major Hollywood ...Show more
The Inner Self by Hugh Mackay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'How can I get in touch with this real self, underlying all my surface behaviour? How can I become myself?' Carl Rogers, US psychotherapist The Inner Self is a book about the ways we hide from the truth about ourselves - both as individuals and as human beings - and the psychological freedom we enjoy wh ...Show more
Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Ever since I was thirteen years old, all I wanted to do was perform. It was an unusual dream for a kid from the Northern Territory to have ... what I wanted for my life was a world away from what people knew and loved about the "Top End". Even though I've moved south to become an actor, the Territory h ...Show more
The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anna Pasternak
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Wallis Simpson was one of the most vilified women of twentieth century. In a stunning biography, Anna Pasternak asks who the American Duchess really was - a social climber, a master manipulator, or simply the true love of King Edward's life? Life has always been made difficult for those marrying into En ...Show more
David Campbell - A Life of the Poet by Jonathan Persse
$44.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
David Campbell (1915-79) was one of Australia's finest lyric poets. Born into a landed family, he was a grazier for most of his life in the Canberra and Bungendore district of the Monaro. He fought with the RAAF in the Second World War, rising to the rank of wing commander, and he was twice awarded a Di ...Show more
Talk of Treasure: Words on Writing, Meditation and Life by Jane Carswell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Jane Carswell began her working life at Pegasus Press shortly after its audacious publication of Janet Frame's novel Owls Do Cry, and years later she went on to write an award-winning memoir called Under the Huang Jiao Tree: Two journeys in China.The road between one book and the other was paved with bo ...Show more
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
$17.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! BOY, Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days, illustrated by Quentin Blake. As a boy, all sorts of unusual things happened to Roald Dahl. There was the tim ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Sad Mum Lady by Ashe Davenport
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
If David Sedaris and Sheila Heti had a baby... well, there'd be a lot to unpack there. But the ensuing stories would be brutal and hilarious and endlessly readable. And they'd look a bit like Sad Mum Lady. If people knew how bad this was,' I said to a friend two weeks after the birth, nipples flashing ...Show more
Finding Freedom Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Carolyn Durand; Omid Scobie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world's attention and sparked an international media frenzy. But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines – from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son ...Show more
The Ratline Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by th ...Show more
