Inge's War - A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of SpoilsWhat does it mean to be on the wrong side of history?Svenja's beautiful, aloof grandmother Inge never spoke about the past. All her family knew wa ...Show more
Flying Bushman by Greg Keynes
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up on the family property, Curbur, in outback Western Australia, Murchison country, Greg Keynes' childhood seemed idyllic. Poignant memories of exploring with his dogs; hunting, working and joking with the local Yamatji people. Breaking free from family ties as a young man, Greg began his own ae ...Show more
Untethered: A Memoir by Hayley Katzen
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When urban academic Hayley Katzen moves to a remote Australian cattle property to live with her farmer girlfriend, she hopes, at last, to find home. But this is no happy-ever-after tree change. Lecture halls, law reform and the arts are replaced with castrating calves, shovelling manure, fire-fighting a ...Show more
The Mountbattens by Andrew Lownie
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A new biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, from award-winning author Andrew Lownie.
The Silent Woman - Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Granta Editions
Janet Malcolm's revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.
Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening by Beth Chatto, Christopher Lloyd
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This volume contains an exchange of letters spanning the gardening year. Two long-established friends and distinguished gardeners share observations, anecdotes and tips from their years of experience.
Radio Girl: The Story of the Extraordinary Mrs Mac, Pioneering Engineer and Wartime Legend by David Dufty
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II.
An Alice Girl by Tanya Heaslip
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For fans of Tony Tapp Coutts' A Sunburnt Childhood and Mary Groves' An Outback Life, comes Tanya Heaslip's extraordinary story of growing up with her sister and brothers in the late 1960s and early 70s on the outback cattle property just north of Alice Springs.
Sad Mum Lady by Ashe Davenport
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
If David Sedaris and Sheila Heti had a baby... well, there'd be a lot to unpack there. But the ensuing stories would be brutal and hilarious and endlessly readable. And they'd look a bit like Sad Mum Lady. If people knew how bad this was,' I said to a friend two weeks after the birth, nipples flashing ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern by Michelle Duff
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Michelle Duff sweeps up all the misogyny that's accompanied Ardern's career so far and show how it undermines women in politics. It's engaging, enraging, illuminating and funny. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is lauded as one of the world's most influential people. Her rise to power has ...Show more
Daddy Cool: Finding my father, the singer who swapped Hollywood fame for home in Australia by Darleen Bungey
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A captivating, generous and exquisitely written memoir of family and a daughter discovering her father's multi-layered life. 'Every family has secrets. Ours also has an award-winning biographer. My sister's discoveries astonished me.' Geraldine Brooks Who can ever truly know their parents? He was a gl ...Show more
The Way Home by Mark Boyle
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever. No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of ...Show more