Lowborn: Growing up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of ...Show more
Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more
Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more
Lucky by Alice Sebold
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by the author of Circe and The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller In Lucky, a memoir long-hailed for its blistering honesty and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was irrevocably changed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was raped and beaten inside a tunnel near ...Show more
M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster by Henry Hemming
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
*** The Sunday Times bestseller *** 'Vividly imagined and prodigiously researched' Helen Davies, Sunday Times, Books of the Year 'Such a rewarding read' John Preston, Daily Mail, Books of the Year 'This odd, secretive man is brought to life', Robbie Millen, The Times, Books of the Year Maxwell Knigh ...Show more
MY PEOPLES SONGS How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial Tasmania by Joel Stephen Birnie
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Tarenootairer (c.1806–58) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat. From there unfolded a life of immense cruelty inflicted by her colonial captors. As with so many Indigenous women of her time, even today the historical record of her life remains a scant threa ...Show more
Mackenzie's Mission: How One Mother Turned Tragedy into Hope and Love by Rachael Casella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A story of triumph over adversity, the strength that can be found in love and kindness, and the power of one couple to effect positive change in the world.
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses William Butler Yeats' father was an impoverished artist, an inveterate letter writer, and a man crippled by his inability to ever finish a painting. Oscar Wilde's father was a doctor, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist who was ...Show more
Mad about Shakespeare: from Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room by Jonathan Bate
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.' ...Show more
Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country by Billy Connolly
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions of all. But there is another question, which might sound a wee bit similar but is actually very different: What do you come from? And, let me tell you, that question can take you all sorts of strange places." In Made in Scotland, Lege ...Show more
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labour by Anna Qu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A young Chinese girl forced to work in a New York sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful memoir about labour and self-worth, economic revolution, and cultural dislocation. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is ...Show more
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to each role co ...Show more