Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2911

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2911

Eighteen memoirs ranging from Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton to Cathy Freeman, General Peter Cosgrove, and Michael Palin's Himalayan journey — with Rupert Hart-Davis on the literary life, Michael Holroyd on his family, Dean King on Patrick O'Brian's hidden past, and the heartbreaking Notes Left Behind.

1. A Fighting Chance — Elizabeth Warren — Warren's memoir of the journey from small-town Oklahoma to the US Senate: the bankruptcy research that radicalised her, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau she built against industry resistance, and the fight for economic fairness that defines her political career.
2. The Arms of Time: A Memoir — Rupert Hart-Davis — One of the great English publishers and men of letters of the twentieth century recalls the writers he edited, the friendships that shaped his life, and the literary world that no longer exists.
3. True Colours: Lauren Huxley and Her Family — Lisa Davies — Lauren Huxley's account of her family's journey through tragedy and rebuilding, with the directness that made her story reach a wide audience.
4. Then There Was Her — Sophie Cachia — The Australian media personality writes about identity, sexuality, and the courage required to live publicly through private change.
5. Warren Beatty: A Life and a Story — David Thomson — The biography of the actor and director who gave us Bonnie and Clyde, Reds, Shampoo, and Bugsy — and who chose his projects with a selectivity that made each one an event.
6. Love and War — James Hewitt — Hewitt's account of his relationship with Princess Diana: his version of what happened, who knew, and what it cost him when it became public.
7. What Happened — Hillary Rodham Clinton — Clinton's account of the 2016 presidential campaign: the decisions made, the opposition faced, and what she has concluded about the forces that decided the outcome.
8. Simply the Gest: The Autobiography — David Gest — The music producer and TV personality who collaborated with Michael Jackson and married Liza Minnelli tells a story that by any measure is not short on incident.
9. Cathy Freeman: A Journey Just Begun — Adrian McGregor — The biography of the athlete who became the most watched Australian runner since Herb Elliott, and whose 400-metre gold at Sydney 2000 was the defining moment of those Games.
10. The Most I Could Be — Dale Kent — A personal memoir subtitled "A Renaissance Story": the account of a life rebuilt and a self revised.
11. My Story — General Peter Cosgrove — Cosgrove commanded the International Force for East Timor, served as Chief of the Defence Force, and later as Governor-General. His memoir covers the military life from cadet to commander, and the political education that came with the second career.
12. Goddess: Inside Madonna — Barbara Victor — Victor's biography of Madonna, examining the business intelligence, the reinventions, and the will to remain culturally relevant across four decades.
13. Peter Ryan: The Inside Story — Sue Williams — The biography of the British police chief brought to Victoria to reform the force in the late 1990s — the corruption he found, the resistance he faced, and the limits of what an outsider can change from within.
14. Basil Street Blues: A Family Story — Michael Holroyd — The great biographer of Shaw and Strachey turns his skills on his own family: the grandparents, the silences, the evasions, and what a mid-century English childhood actually contained. One of his finest books.
15. Patrick O'Brian: A Life — Dean King — The biography of the author of the Aubrey-Maturin naval novels — the most sustained historical fiction of the twentieth century — and the remarkable, reclusive man who spent decades concealing the details of his own past.
16. Thrive — Arianna Huffington — Huffington's argument that the standard definition of success leaves out the things that make life worth living, and a manifesto for the wellbeing, wisdom, and perspective that constitute a different way of measuring it.
17. Himalaya — Michael Palin — Palin's journey through the Himalayan region for the BBC series: Nepal, Tibet, Pakistan, India, Bhutan, and the landscapes and people encountered along the route. One of his best travel books.
18. Notes Left Behind — Brooke and Keith Desserich — During her terminal illness, six-year-old Elena Desserich left notes hidden around the house for her parents to find. Her family discovered them after she died. Impossible to read without being changed by it.