Live Work Work Work Die - A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal- to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. Determined to cut through the cliches of big tech - the relentless optim ...Show more
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"The five marriages that Carmela Ciuraru explores in Lives of the Wives provide such delightfully gossipy pleasure that we have to remind ourselves that these were real people whose often stormy relationships must surely have been less fun to experience than they are for us to read about."--Francine Pro ...Show more
Living Better: How I Learnt to Survive Depression by Alastair Campbell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Last Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts. Never gone from almost to deed. Don't think I ever will. But it was a bad almost. Better to Live is Alastair Campbell's honest, moving and life affirming account of his lifelong struggle with depression. It is an autobiographical, ...Show more
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust by Christopher Prendergast
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A lifetime's reading of Proust's masterpiece.
Living in Hope by Frank Byrne; Frances Coughlan; Gerard Waterford
$15.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Book one in the Inland Writers-short reads from the Centre of Australia. The killing times were barely over in the Kimberley. What I knew, even as a small boy, was that no-one argued with a whitefella. People talked in whispers. I was still so small. This is the story of the early years of my life. The ...Show more
Living in Hope: The Complete Memoirs of Frank Byrne by Frank Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
‘Frank Byrne is a hero who worked for over ten years to have this book written, to set the record straight about the denial of truth in history telling in this country.’ — Alexis Wright‘This is a very strong story of survival. A tragic reminder of the harshness and unfairness of the mission era but also ...Show more
Lofty: My Life in Short: A Memoir by Lofty Fulton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 3
A memoir of standing tall against the odds Australian voice-over artist Lofty Fulton knows what it's like to have the odds stacked against him: Born with achondroplasia, which is a form of dwarfism, his grandmother thought he should be locked away from the world. At school, he suffered years of relentle ...Show more
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama by Nelson Mandela
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the dra ...Show more
Looking Up - The Advantages of Being Underestimated by Michele Sullivan; Thomas Nelson
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
We've all had moments of feeling like we didn't belong, but imagine being born into a world where fitting in was never an option. Michele Sullivan, who has a rare form of dwarfism, shares how her physical posture taught her the most effective relational posture with others, which helped her become one o ...Show more
Looking for Trouble by Virginia Cowles
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This sensational 1941 memoir of life on the frontline of wartime Europe by a trailblazing female war reporter is a dazzling rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb. 'I suppose this is what people call seeing history in the making .' Madrid in the Spanish Civil War Prague during the Munich cri ...Show more
Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don't know for certain.' So begins Mary Gaitskill's stunning long essay, the closest thing she has written to a memoir, about a lost cat and a pair of adopted children. In this searing p ...Show more
Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next? by Yomi Adegoke; Elizabeth Uviebinené
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging black British writers. 'I so e ...Show more