Return from Exile - One Woman's Journey Back to Judaism by Carol M. Orsborn
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
At midlife, a spiritually hungry author of self-help books leaves behind her professional life to enrol in divinity school and emerges unexpectedly reconnected to the Judaism she thought she had left behind. In this book Carol Matzkin Orsborn discusses her first year at divinity school, the year that tr ...Show more
The Footy Lady The Trailblazing Story of Susan Alberti by Stephanie Asher
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
No tragedy, no challenge, has proved too hard for Susan Alberti. The woman from the working-class suburbs has battled boardrooms, courts, lymphoma and adult diabetes;and was one of the driving forces behind the AFL's move into women's football. When her first husband was killed by a truck, Susan took ...Show more
Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter by Sidney Poitier
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
M - The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearAs vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was marked by the ...Show more
Snake Hips : Belly dancing and how I found true love by Anne Thomas Soffee
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
Snake Hips follows an Arab- American woman's life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo- artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30. Her heart broken, Soffee moves back home to wallow in self- pity. There she comes across a flier advertising the usual classe ...Show more
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui
$6.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The true story of a 10-year-old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, courageously defying both Yemeni customs and her own family. Nujood's childhood came to an abrupt end when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujoo ...Show more
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know.Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Afri ...Show more
Memoirs by Mike Willesee
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"After thousands of stories, a legend finally tells his own. Mike Willesee has been Australia's most revered television journalist for over fifty years. And behind the lens, a businessman, powerbroker, trailblazer and enduring enigma. Son of a minister in the Whitlam cabinet, Willesee was a football sta ...Show more
Miss Kwa Kwa II - The Dark Side of the Braai by Stephen Simm
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
MK, the lady usually causing all the trouble, faces it from all sides--political fanatics, Hollywood party girls, a secret agent, and local television--in this rollicking sequel to Miss Kwa Kwa. Upon waking up a week after she remembers going to bed, MK realizes sinister plots are afoot in Johannesburg ...Show more
Sharon Osbourne Extreme - My Autobiography by Sharon Osbourne
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'I have been kept awake for the past two nights, utterly gripped by Sharon's story . . . She makes Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain et all look like kiddies at a tea party, overdosing on fizzy drinks . . . she is radiant, confident, assertive and glamorous. And enormously successful, having turned Ozzy's car ...Show more
Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Haircutting and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side: A Memoir of Hard Living, Haircutting and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side by Rayya Elias
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even died once in the process, and may very well have had sex with your wife back ...Show more
Parky: My Autobiography by Michael Parkinson
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From prize-winning journalist to chat show king on a show voted one of the top ten British TV programmes of all time, Michael Parkinson's starry career spans over four decades. Now an international celebrity himself, the man from a humble but colourful Yorkshire mining family who can tease out the secre ...Show more