Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
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Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016 WINNER OF THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. William Finnegan first started surfing ...Show more
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
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Category: Biography
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary by Anne Frank
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Category: Biography
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more
Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Helen Elliott’s Eleven Letters to You is a profoundly original memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, before feminism. This sparkling, wonderfully absorbing book is written in the form of eleven letters to those neighbours, relatives, friends, ...Show more
Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan for readers of BECOMING, I AM MALALA and RISING HEART by Dr Sima Samar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I have three strikes against me. I'm a woman, I speak out for women and I'm Hazara, the most persecuted tribe in Afghanistan.' Dr Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and had to agree ...Show more
The Fry Chronicles (#2) by Stephen Fry
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Category: Biography
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge University as a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that any moment he would be sent away. Instead, he befriended bright young things like Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie, and he emerged as one of the most promising comi ...Show more
The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy #3) by Gerald Durrell
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Category: Biography | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the ...Show more
The Shapeless Unease - A Year of Not Sleeping by Samantha Harvey
$5.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psychology in a transcendent search for reality and truth. In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. Sh ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton by Joe Moshenska
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips 'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' Spectator For most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightle ...Show more
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time by Jenny Uglow
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Category: Biography
From one of our most admired writers, the gripping story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
The Language of Thieves - The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family's Secret History by Martin Puchner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
You might have heard the saying ‘you’re in a pickle’ meaning you’re in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs, and spoken by vagrants and refugees, merchants and thieves since the European Middl ...Show more