Sing This at My Funeral - A Memoir of Fathers and Sons by David Slucki
80.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1978, Jakub Slucki passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of seventy-seven. A Holocaust survivor whose first wife and two sons had been murdered at the Nazi death camp in Chelmno, Poland, Jakub had lived a turbulent life. Just over thirty-seven years later, his son Charles died of a heart att ...Show more
Hearing Maud - A Journey for a Voice by Jessica C. White
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Hearing Maud: a Journey for a Voice is a work of creative non-fiction that details the author's experiences of deafness after losing most of her hearing at age four. It charts how, as she grew up, she was estranged from people and turned to reading and writing for solace, eventually establishing a ca ...Show more
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner
74.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but convent ...Show more
Charles and Ada - The Computer's Most Passionate Partnership (PB) by James Essinger; Lisa Noel Babbage (Foreword by)
42.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The names Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace are synonymous with pioneering computer science and engineering, their work on the Analytical Engine shifting paradigms and sparking the advent of the computer age in which our society is now based. The one seemingly a stereotypically repressed Englishman, whil ...Show more
The Saboteur of Auschwitz - The Inspiring True Story of a British Soldier Imprisoned in Auschwitz by Colin Rushton
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1942, young British soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. The Germans gave it another name, now synonymous with mankind's darkest hours. They called it Auschwitz. Forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, Arthur th ...Show more
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism ...Show more
Morning Glory on the Vine: early songs & drawings by Joni Mitchell
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time. In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted one hundred copies of Mor ...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
Anzac and Aviator: The Remarkable Story of Sir Ross Smith and the 1919 England to Australia Air Race by Michael Molkentin
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of extraordinary Australian, Ross Smith, who rode to war at Gallipoli on horseback and by the end of the war, was one of the most highly awarded fighter pilots.
Beneath the Surface by Libby Trickett
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The brave and inspiring memoir of one of Australian Swimming's Golden Girls, whose extraordinary achievements masked her private battles with anxiety and depression.
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In Dead People I Have Known, the legendary New Zealand musician Shayne Carter tells the story of a life in music, taking us deep behind the scenes and songs of his riotous teenage bands Bored Games and the Doublehappys and his best-known bands Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. He traces an intimate history ...Show more
Defying Hitler - A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner; Oliver Pretzel (translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This memoir begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday is cut short by the outbreak of war, and ends with Hitler's assumption of power in 1933. It is a portrait of the author and his own generation in Germany, those born between 1900 and 1910, and explains through his own experiences and those of his ...Show more