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.
One Punch: The Tragic Toll of Random Acts of Violence by Barry Dickins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In One Punch Barry Dickins reflects on the many types of violence that can now affect everyday life. In his heartfelt exploration of the subject, Barry talks to many of the people whom this violence impacts, including the parents of children who have been killed, professionals in the justice system, and ...Show more
Diana - Her True Story in Her Own Words (US PB) by Andrew Morton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The sensational biography of Princess Diana, written with her cooperation and now featuring exclusive new material to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death. When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. Greeted init ...Show more
The Power Broker - Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life by Michael Gawenda
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel. Mark Leibler grew up in this community, and in time became a leader of it. This book shows how Leibler rose to a ...Show more
In My Skin: A Memoir by Kate Holden
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An Australian memoir published to critical acclaim worldwide, In My Skin is the true story of Kate Holden's life as sex worker and a heroin addict. Kate was a nice middle-class girl: a dreamy bookworm, a classics scholar and an innocent. In this memoir she chronicles in frank and beautifully crafted pro ...Show more
More Than Love by Natasha Gregson Wagner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
More Than Love is a memoir of loss, grief, and coming of age, set amid Hollywood glamour and royalty, by Natasha Gregson Wagner, the oldest daughter of Natalie Wood and her second husband Richard Gregson. Beginning with the night Natalie Wood went sailing on the family boat with her husband Robert Wagne ...Show more
Anne Boleyn - 500 Years of Lies by Hayley Nolan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A bold new analysis of one of history's most misrepresented women. History has lied. Anne Boleyn has been sold to us as a dark figure, a scheming seductress who bewitched Henry VIII into divorcing his queen and his church in an unprecedented display of passion. Quite the tragic love story, right? Wro ...Show more
The Tap Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life -- Without the Boring Bits by Paul Hogan
$14.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The icon and legend at last tells his story his way - without the boring bits Paul Hogan first appeared on our screens in 1971 as a 'tap dancing knife thrower' on channel 9's New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a dare, but when the network's switc ...Show more
The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren - The Biography by Paul Gorman
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'This masterful and painstaking biography opens its doorway to an era of fluorescent disenchantment and outlandish possibility' Alan Moore Malcolm McLaren was one of the most culturally significant but misunderstood figures of the modern era. Ten years after his life was cruelly cut short by cancer, The ...Show more
Into the Suburbs: A Migrant's Story by Christopher Raja
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'In Calcutta we were crammed in among crowds, traffic and pollution. We had visions of breathing fresh, clean air and living in a classless society where everyone was your mate.'Christopher Raja was eleven years old when his father, David, decided to move the family to Australia in pursuit of the idylli ...Show more
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
That Bird Has My Wings is the astounding memoir of death row inmate Jarvis Masters and a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit and the talent of a fine writer. Offering scenes from his life that are at times poignant, revelatory, frightening, soul-stirring, painful, funny, and uplifting, That Bi ...Show more