Everest, Guns and Money by CHRIS DEWHIRST
$39.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
In the autumn of 1973, Chris Dewhirst was living and working in Yosemite National Park, and part of a counterculture group of rock climbers tackling some of the most difficult climbs on the planet. One night, while four friends were perched high on the side of El Capitan, a plane crashed into a back-cou ...Show more
Unbreakable by Jess Halloran, Jelena Dokic
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell.Jelena was a prodigious talent, heralded as Australia's greatest tennis ...Show more
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between t ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by PICK-GOSLAR HANNAH
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
In this never-before-seen memoir, Bergen-Belsen survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar shares incredibly powerful words on the final untold portrait of her childhood friend, Anne Frank. The inspiring and heartbreaking true story of two best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds. When Hannah Pick-Goslar ...Show more
Alexander the Great : Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F. Cantor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
"Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure." In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor illumi ...Show more
Story of Che Guevara by Lucia Alvarez de Toledo
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
** NEW ** Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the political map of Latin America and gave hope to those resisting colonialism everywhere. In The Story of Che Guevara Lucia Alvarez de Toledo follows Ch ...Show more
The Wasp and The Orchid: The remarkable life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'[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
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: good
The true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, turned the situation to his advantage to become one of the world's greatest ballet stars. Li tells his story with charm and simplicity, wit ...Show more
Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories by Shauna Bostock
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history. The phone rang unexpectedly late one night. 'Guess who our white ancestors were?' chuckled Uncle Gerry. 'They were slave traders! A couple of generations of slave traders!' With this startling revelation, Shauna wanted to ...Show more
Weatherman Goes Bush by Graham Creed
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A memoir about the unexpected joys and challenges of a tree-change from a television studio to a farm, from a beloved former ABC weather presenter. The expectations of a tree-change rarely meet the reality, but for TV weatherman-cum-farmer Graham Creed, being immersed in the weather every day, rather th ...Show more
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman's Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
An empowering and gripping story of a pioneer of women's rights written by a critically-acclaimed writer and historian, for fans of Hallie Rubenhold, Hermione Lee and prize-winning Victorian histories. London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes ...Show more