Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerardfocuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood - -the wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shock -- as they were revealed in the short tragic-happy life of his saintly brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac's home ...Show more
The Windsor Diaries 1940-45 by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
The Windsor Diaries are the never-before-seen diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who lived alongside the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War. Alathea's home life was an unhappy one. Her parents had separated and so during the war she was sent to live wi ...Show more
Catch a Falling Star (Jeanne Little Biography) by Katie M. Little
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
In 1974 Jeanne Little burst into the living rooms of millions of households across Australia with her ?rst appearance on The Mike Walsh Show - audiences didn't know what hit them! With a ?gure like Twiggy, false eyelashes and a raucous voice that screamed 'Hello Daaaaaaahling!', Jeanne was an instant se ...Show more
Car Crash: A Memoir by Lech Blaine
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Category: Biographies
Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party. They never arrived. The driver - who was not drunk or high - made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew ...Show more
Teacher: One woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching by Gabbie Stroud
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more
All Things Wise and Wonderful: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet by James Herriot
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The third collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the TV series All Creatures Great and Small. Training as an RAF pilot in the smoke and bustle of wartime London is a far cry from James Herriot's day job as a country vet in the Yorkshire Dales. And whilst he is keen to serve King and country ...Show more
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs by Sandra Hogan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s. Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told' - Susan Johnson'It reads like the very best of spy thrillers.' - Matthew Condon'An intimate and compelling look at an ordinary family who happen to be ASIO agen ...Show more
While Time Remains - A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America by Yeonmi Park
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found ...Show more
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness from Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018 to 2022) by Scott Morrison
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith and operated at the top level of politics for more than a decade. During one of the toughest periods since the second world war, covering drought, wildfires, a globa ...Show more
Gotta Get Theroux This: My life and strange times in television by Louis Theroux
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat charact ...Show more
Daring to Fly by Lisa Millar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
There are significant moments in life that you only really appreciate long after they have passed ... And then there are moments that are so magnificent you understand in an instant that they need to be treasured because the universe is offering you something truly inspiring. Lisa Millar has spent her ...Show more
Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search by Martin Sixsmith; Judi Dench (Foreword by)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: 16
The book that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan."The touching story of a mother's fifty-year search for her son." Sunday TimesWhen she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a fallen woman. S ...Show more