The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms (HB) by Richard Fidler
42.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled a ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Anne Frank
21.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her f ...Show more
The Family Law: New Edition by Benjamin Law
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a ...Show more
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive by Erik Brouwer
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
The story of Dutch boxer Leen Sanders who was spared to entertain the Nazi guards and helped others survive Auschwitz. 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to the gas chamber.' In 1943 Leen Sanders ...Show more
The Fruit Cure: The story of extreme wellness turned sour by Jacqueline Alnes
32.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to ...Show more
The Girl in the Green Dress by Jeni Haynes, George Blair-West
23.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.'An intelligent, poised woman, Jeni Haynes sat in court and listened as the man wh ...Show more
The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
22.99 AUD
34.99 (34% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at the core Haydar gives us truths about love. This is one of the most important books I've ever read.' Bri Lee'I am from a family of strong women.'Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mo ...Show more
The Strength of Hope: A Holocaust Survivor's Guide to Love and Life by Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
97-year-old Abram Goldberg is a beacon of positivity, and lives with a joy and optimism that could not more starkly contrast with his experience in the Holocaust. One of the most uplifting stories you will ever read. Abram Goldberg is a beacon of joy and optimism, and a master of keeping perspective. ...Show more
The Twat Files: A hilarious sort-of memoir of mistakes, mishaps and mess-ups by Dawn French
29.99 AUD
36.99 (18% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last sixty years. Nincompoop. Nitwit. Lunatic. Dork. All lovely . . . but . . . nah . . . I prefer Twat. It's neat and it's accurate somehow. Because, yes, I am a Twat . . . sometimes. Aren't we all? THE TWAT ...Show more
The War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry That Has Defined the Royal Family by Nigel Cawthorne
32.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew.
The Wasp and The Orchid: The remarkable life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
'[A] brilliant biography' Australian Women's Weekly' Undoubtedly a remarkable woman' Weekend Australian' Danielle Clode breathes life into the story of Edith Coleman... an approachable blend of biography, science, nature writing and social history.' Adelaide Advertiser In 1922, a 48-year-old housewif ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more