Cry of the Kalahari by Delia Owens, Mark Owens
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
'A remarkable story beautifully told... Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist' Chicago Tribune Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhan ...Show more
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius: not since Albert Einstein has a scientific figure held such a position in popular consciousness. In this enthralling memoir, writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow tells the story of his friend and their friendship, offering an ...Show more
Russian Roulette: by Richard Greene
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events of modern history - including the origins of the Vi ...Show more
Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD by Allison Britz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir. Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable lif ...Show more
The Little Ghost Girl:Abused Starved and Neglected. A Little Girl Desperate for Someone to Love Her by Maggie Hartley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: A\Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story Ser.
Kayleigh was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. Pale, frail and withdrawn, it was clear to Maggie that Kayleigh had seen and experienced things that no ten-year-old should have to, that she's been conditioned to 'see no evil, speak no evil'. Kayleigh is in despe ...Show more
Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the ghost." T ...Show more
Daddy's Little Soldier by Hartley Maggie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: A\Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story Ser.
Quiet and polite, obsessively neat, clean and tidy, eight-year-old Tom is unlike any child Maggie has ever fostered before. Tom has been taken into care following concerns that his dad is struggling to cope after the death of Tom's mum. At first, Maggie doesn't know what to make of this shy, nervous lit ...Show more
Frank and Fearless by Rachael Jane Chin (As told to); Nicholas Cowdery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When I walked through the office door each day, I knew that almost every decision I made would make someone unhappy... Frank and Fearless is a gripping and forthright account of some of the toughest cases faced by Nicholas Cowdery during his time as Director of Public Prosecutions for New South Wales. ...Show more
All the Queen's Corgis - Corgis, Dorgis and Gundogs: the Story of Elizabeth II and Her Most Faithful Companions by Penny Junor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Everyone who loves The Crown on Netflix will enjoy this celebration of Queen Elizabeth II and her beloved canine friends. The Queen has had corgis by her side ever since she was seven years old and persuaded her father to buy one for the family. She also has several dorgis (a cross resulting from an ac ...Show more
Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning autho ...Show more
Orwell: A Man of Our Time by Richard Bradford
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings. As one of the most enduringly popular and controversial novelists of the last century, the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death in 2020 offers an opportunity to assess his relevance today. Despite the commonplace view that Animal Farm was aimed exclu ...Show more
Indira Gandhi : A Life in Nature by Jairam Ramesh
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India for sixteen years, was as charismatic as she was controversial-at once admired and criticized for her political judgements and actions. Yet beyond such debate, what has not been fully understood is her life-long communion with nature and how that defined her very b ...Show more