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
Unfettered and Alive by Anne Summers
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I was born into a world that expected very little of women like me. We were meant to tread lightly on the earth, influencing events through our husbands and children, if at all. We were meant to fade into invisibility as we aged. I defied all of these expectations and so have millions of women like me. ...Show more
Life In A Box: Traveller. Antiques Dealer. Mother. Model. Iconoclast. by Sarah Jane Adams
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The wonderfully compelling and unorthodox memoir of 63-year old international model and iconoclast, @mywrinklesaremystripes' Sarah Jane Adams. Auction catalogues can reveal a lot about a person: their life, their loves and their style. Antique jewellery dealer Sarah Jane Adams became an international mo ...Show more
Before & After: The Incredible Story of the Real-life Mrs Wilson by Alison Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: BEFORE & AFTER
Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In 1940, whilst working as a secretary at MI6, Alison met Alexander Wilson. Thirty years her senior, Alexander was worldly and charismatic. An intense affair quickly led to ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte D'Azur, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Adventures of the Comma Queen
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in the New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers ...Show more
Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography by Elisabeth Sladen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Elisabeth Sladen debuted as journalist Sarah Jane Smith in 1973 Doctor Who story 'The Time Warrior', she had no idea that the character would become one of the most popular in the series' history. When she quit the TARDIS in 1976, having traversed space and time alongside Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, ...Show more
One Bright Moon by Andrew Kwong
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia Andrew Kwong was only seven when he witnessed his first execution. The grim scene left him sleepless, anxious and doubtful about his fervour as a revolutionary in Mao's New China. Yet he knew if he devoted hi ...Show more
Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Regina Calcaterra's emotionally honest and reflective memoir recounts how she and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood, caring for one another while enduring a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness - all in the shadows between Manhattan and the Hamptons. With beauti ...Show more
Mackenzie's Mission: How One Mother Turned Tragedy into Hope and Love by Rachael Casella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A story of triumph over adversity, the strength that can be found in love and kindness, and the power of one couple to effect positive change in the world.