Sontag - Her Life by Benjamin Moser
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. "Susan Sontag lived a life of singular contradictions: an intellectual featured on Vanity Fair; gay but married to a man at 17; an independent thinker whose first book was published under her husband’s n ...Show more
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a sm ...Show more
Scarred - The true story of how I escaped NXIVM, the cult that bound my life by Sarah Edmondson; Kristine Gasbarre
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Scarred is Sarah Edmondson's compelling memoir of her recruitment into the NXIVM cult, the twelve years she spent within the organization (during which she enrolled over 2,000 members), her breaking point, and her harrowing fight to get out, to help others and to heal. This is also a story about abuses ...Show more
Clementine Churchill - A Life in Pictures by Sonia Purnell; Harriet Walter (Foreword by)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Foreword by Harriet Walter. Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures is a fully illustrated and abridged edition of Sonia Purnell's acclaimed biography, First Lady, including over 100 stunning and rarely seen photographs. Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survi ...Show more
Denali: The Story of an Exceptional Dog by Ben Moon
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the bestselling tradition of Finding Gobi and Marley & Me, the moving story of a dog, his human and the friendship that saved both their lives - and inspired countless others. Ben Moon had no intention of getting a dog until he met the soulful gaze of a husky-pit bull cross pup in a rescue shel ...Show more
The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near-perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while Rosie was still struggling with various toilet mishaps. She soon realised that she was the Doug Pitt to her ...Show more
The School of Restoration: The Story of One Ugandan Woman Who Has Given Hope to Hundreds of Female Survivors of War and Violence by Alice Achan; Philippa Tyndale
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The powerful and uplifting story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female victims of war and violence. Alice Achan was just thirteen when the Lord's Resistance Army first terrorised her village in northern Uganda in 1987. She spent five years on the run from the brutal LRA, and then ...Show more
Child Bride by Finstad Suzanne
$32.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The myth-shattering account of the most famous and most taboo love story in rock-and-roll history Child Bride reveals the hidden story of rock icon Elvis Presley's love affair with fourteen-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, the ninth-grader he wooed as a G.I. in Germany and cloistered at Graceland before mar ...Show more
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West by Konstantin Kisin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
For all of the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides. Konstantin would know. Growing up in the Soviet Union, he experienced first-hand the horrors of a socialist paradise gone wrong, having lived in extreme poverty ...Show more
Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade, has to be Matthew Sturgis's Oscar' TLS Books of the Year A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARNOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'Simply the best modern biography of Wilde... A terrific achievement' Evening Standard 'Page-turning... Vivid and desperat ...Show more
The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.' Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Aus ...Show more
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century by Beverley Gage
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
When he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation a ...Show more