Townie : A Memoir by Andre Dubus
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he ...Show more
Stieg and Me: Memories of a Life with Stieg Larsson by Eva Gabrielsson
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
There is only one person who can tell the real Stieg Larsson story, and that is his lifelong companion Eva Gabrielsson. This is her book.The keys to the 'Stieg Larsson phenomenon' all lie with Stieg Larsson, the man, and no one knew him like Eva. Here she tells the story of their 30-year romance, of Sti ...Show more
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan by various
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
Critic Kenneth Tynan, the impresario who created
Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Alice Steinbach enjoyed her European journey of self-discovery (detailed in the popular Without Reservations, so much that she took off to travel further. She became an informal international student â of French cooking in Paris, Border-collie training in Scotland, traditional arts in Kyoto and arc ...Show more
John Winston Howard - Biography by ERRINGTON Wayne
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In "John Winston Howard", a frank and engrossing portrait of the Prime Minister, Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen contend that John Howard is the first professional politician the country has seen, who has left a deep and lasting impact on modern politics, government and the country.For the first t ...Show more
The Last Hero - A Biography of the Explorer Bill Tilman by Tim Madge
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Bill Tilman was part of the Himalayan climbing partnership with Eric Shipton, and later developed a new name for himself as the idiosyncratic skipper of the Bristol pilot cutter Mischief. Fittingly, he was lost at sea in Antarctic waters in his 80th year. Using Tilman's own letters and diaries, this boo ...Show more
Helen and Teacher - Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy by Joseph P. Lash
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef by Marco Pierre White
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"There hasn't been a food memoir this deliciously wicked since Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential."--"Portland OregonianThe Devil in the Kitchen" is legendary chef Marco Pierre White's memoir of growing up working-class in Leeds and going on to become a king in the culinary world--the original cele ...Show more
Learning to Breathe - One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival by Alison Wright
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive ... one breath at a time Alison Wright covered humanitarian issues with her camera until her own life was nearly cut short during a horrific bus accident with a logging truck on a remote jungle road in Laos. Suffering from excruciating life-thr ...Show more