A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a war.""You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?""Yes, all the time.""Cool."I smile a little."You should tell us about it sometime.""Yes ...Show more
The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The touching and ground-breaking account of the Queen and Princess Margaret's childhood by their nanny with a foreword by BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond. In little more than fifty years the regard with which the Royal Family are held has changed out of all recognition. Their private lives are now t ...Show more
Prison Notebooks: Selections by Antonio Gramsci
$58.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This volume was the first selection published from the Antonio Gramsci's Prison Nobebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains most of the key writings by Gramsci, including the text of The Modern Prince.
The Women Of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne by Barbara Minchinton
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Sex workers in 19th-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women. While today a popular bar and a city lane are famous ...Show more
Further Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle De Jour
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"She lists like Hornby. She talks dirty like Amis. She has the misanthropy of Larkin and examines the finer points of sexual technique as she is adjusting the torque on a beloved but temperamental old E-type...It's hard to believe that this clever and candid new voice has no more to say. Whoever the aut ...Show more
Little Sister: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood by Lana Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this memoir, Lana Wood investigates the mysterious drowning of her sister, the actress Natalie Wood, and clears up the myths and misconceptions behind one of the most notorious celebrity deaths of our time. On the night of November 29, 1981, Natalie Wood disappeared from her yacht, the Splendour, whi ...Show more
Dear Queer Self - An Experiment in Memoir by Jonathan Alexander
$31.95 AUD
Category: Biography
An unvarnished accounting of one man's struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity.In this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years--1989, 1993, and 1996--Dear Queer Self follows the author through the homophob ...Show more
Hitler's Spy Princess - The Extraordinary Life of Stephanie Von Hohenlohe by Martha Schad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A portrait of Stephanie von Hohenlohe (1891-1972), notorious as a secret go-between and even a professional blackmailer. Despite being the illegitimate daughter of a Jewish parents, Stephanie always claimed to be of pure Aryan descent, and began a career of social climbing from a young age. She acquired ...Show more
100 Women Who Shaped World History by Gail Meyer Rolka
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: 100 Ser.
Learn all about the fascinating lives and tremendous impact of 100 extraordinary women around the world with this fact-filled biography collection for kids.Educational and engaging, 100 Women Who Shaped World History features:Simple, easy-to-read text that has been freshly updatedIllustrated portraits o ...Show more
Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea by Michael Smith, Jonathan Franklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hotspots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina, loaded with 1,200 passengers - British, American, Australi ...Show more
The Queen by Andrew Morton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world.For years she prayed for her mother to give birth to ...Show more