Biography

Like the best true life adventures, the story of Werner Pelz is stranger than fiction. Forced to flee Nazi Germany for being Jewish, he was then interned in England for...

'Beyond inspiring . . . This story of the redeeming power of educating girls and the restoration of traumatised lives is beautiful. The impact will be immeasurable.' Tim Costello AO...

In this age of lunchtime lifts, wrinkle-erasing injections, furrow fillers, and lip plumpers, there's no question that anyone who aims to look younger easily can. But Lauren Kessler wants something...

The book titled Jackie after Jack: Portrait of the Lady by the author Christopher Andersen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Things I Didn't Expect is one woman's journey to make sense of the absurdities, the harsh realities, the myths and the downright lies about making babies. Pregnancy is natural, healthy...

For the first year of his solitary confinement in Beirut, Terry Waite was given nothing to read. During those days, not only did he write his autobiography in his head,...

A beautiful book celebrating rural life in France and the simple luxuries of good food, wine and friendship, by the author of the bestselling The Ripening Sun. How often have...

"Like hanging with your funniest, sunniest, most sound, wise friend. " - Marian Keyes Everything good, bad and downright mad that has shaped Vogue's life and career is laid bare...

When Jane Wilson-Howarth'sson, David, was diagnosed with serious neurological disorders, the family faced a major decision. They could stay in England, where David had access to the best services that...

'Fascinating' Telegraph 'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post 'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker '[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times 'A fascinating new look at the patchwork chaos called...

Lamps, penknives, paperbacks, mechanical pencils, inflatable headrests. Marcin Wicha's mother Joanna was a collector of everyday objects. She found intrinsic - and often idiosyncratic - value in each item. When...

Vesna Goldsworthy breezed through life - a pampered child of the Serbian middle class, a top student at Belgrade University, a presenter of a fashionable radio programme, a poet who...

"I read Free Spirit all in one go as I literally couldn't put it down.Tanya Sarne's courage and resilience are utterly awe-inspiring.You could read no better book than this on...

The book titled Guide the Susan Hayward Anthology by the author Susan Hayward. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Divide is well written and thought-provoking' - Sunday Telegraph 'A lively guide through the thorny challenges of rural life in an urban world. Essential reading for both incomer and local....

We've all been there: one minute you're in a loving relationship, or maybe just on your third date with a guy who's not too weird, the next minute you've been...

Marsha Boulton gave up her glamorous job as a journalist, and with her partner Stephen, moved to a farm in the middle of nowhere. Shortly after, they learned they would...

A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017...

Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on? In Small Fires , Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking -...

Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, however, he found himself so...

An Amazon Best Memoir of the Month One of Elle Magazine's Best Books of 2017 Goodreads Best of the Month Daily Beast, "Books I Can't Live Without" Good Housekeeping, Best...

'wide-ranging, defiant and impassioned' - Fiona Wright, author of The World Was Whole What does it mean to terminate a pregnancy? In Tissue, Madison Griffiths turns her keen eye to...

Australia's Test Cricket Captain in conversation with remarkable leaders and achievers - from Julia Gillard to Dennis Lillee. Finalist at the Australian Business Book Awards - Leadership Category 2025 When...

The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure...

When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the...

The book titled Sorrow Mountain: the Remarkable Story of a Tibetan Warrior Nun: The by the author Ani Pachen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most deliciously candid memoir ever written about official Washington - a laugh-out-loud cri de...

At the time of his death from cancer on 1 March 2001, journalist and broadcaster John Diamond had completed six chapters of what was to be "an uncomplimentary look at...

" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America." " - Publishers Weekly "[These contributions] touch on so many different...

An award-winning journalist tells her haunting family story. Diana Wichtel was born in Vancouver. Her mother was a New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew who had jumped off a...

Waleed Aly is an Australian broadcaster, journalist, academic and musician. As co-host of The Project , a daily primetime television news and current affairs programme, he is one Australia's leading...

Being Peta provides a brave, honest firsthand account by a young person of what it's like to live with leukaemia. It is a book that will provide comfort and companionship...

In his latest collection, Ryle brings together the best cock and bull stories from the local pub, the sale yard, the track and his own remarkable life. Have you heard...

Christine is in a purple patch of her life. Recently retired, she has big plans for the future and decides to keep a journal. This is her time: time to...

Born in rural Worcestershire in 1950, David Harwood learnt about keeping animals from an early age, before going on to study veterinary medicine at London's Royal Veterinary College. Once qualified,...

Art Deco captures the vitality and modernity of the Jazz Age. From the refined interiors of 1920s Paris to the decadent and luxurious glamour of Hollywood, the bold geometry, simplicity...

David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll with Me is Geoff MacCormack's remarkable photographic memoir, charting his lifelong friendship with David Bowie. Images bring MacCormack's stories to life, showing the places he...

When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she...

When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their...

In the ten years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers to set out on paths they never thought...

This is the book that shows just how important PR has been in creating the media image of some of Australia's famous and powerful figures. Noel Tennison's memoir 'My Spin...

This is a personal and perceptive confrontation of racial intolerance in Scotland and notions of Englishness and Scottishness.

The book titled Beerbohm Tree: His Life and Laughter by the author Hesketh Pearson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Memoirs by the author Alexandre Benois. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'I'm not going to tell you that everything happens for a reason. Those words are cold comfort in any traumatic moment. This is what I will say, though: I see...

As a senior Macquarie Bank executive, Bill Moss AM built a global business in real estate finance, development and funds management that stretched across five continents, creating thousands of jobs...

PossAbilities is about finding the magic in whatever you do. Encompassing fourteen creative career incarnations, this grounded memoir includes bittersweet ruminations on uncertainty and trust. You'll find heartfelt inspiration to...

Seeking ways to understand her chosen continent better, Belinda Probert bought a rural property outside of Melbourne to observe the land more closely and learn how to garden differently. How...