Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The lost legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona Carnarvon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants: Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials ...Show more
Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and w ...Show more
Homage to Gaia - Revised& Updated by James Lovelock
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A new edition in the year of James Lovelock's 100th birthdayWith over fifty patents to his name and innumerable awards and accolades, James Lovelock is a distinguished and original thinker who has been widely recognized by the international scientific community. In this inspiring book, republished in th ...Show more
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (20th Anniversary Edition) by David Deida
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Deida explores the most important issues in men's lives--from career and family to women and intimacy to love and spirituality--to offer a practical guidebook for living a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom.
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Hazzard's marvellous, luminous writing I discovered only recently; now I don't know how I ever managed to get along without it' - Sarah Waters Born and raised in Sydney Australia, Hazzard lived around the world: in Hong Kong; Wellington, New Zealand; New York; Naples and Capri and her writing -- cosmo ...Show more
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The Story of Two Lives, One Nation, and a Century of Art Under Tyranny by Ai Weiwei
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poetIn his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei ...Show more
When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Growing Up Under the Khmer RougeIn this mesmerizing story, finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the ...Show more
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world. Angela Merkel ...Show more
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E. Grant
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An intimate and uplifting memoir by Richard E. Grant. Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has been a fixture on our screens since his breakout role in Withnail and I in 1987. When his beloved wife Joan died in 2021 after almost forty years toget ...Show more
Talking to Myself by Chris Jagger
$52.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
It's Chris Jagger's turn to lift the lid on one of the most colorful and exotic periods in British cultural history. He unrolls an insider's tale of growing up among the bombsites and ration books of post-war Dartford, weaving through the glittery underground of late 1960s countercultural London, and sp ...Show more