Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2918

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2918

A diverse memoir box anchored by major literary and critical lives — Jeffrey Meyers on Edmund Wilson, John Barnes on Joseph Furphy, and John La Nauze on Walter Murdoch — alongside Jill Ker Conway on the art of autobiography itself, Francis Chichester on single-handed sailing, Jim McGuinness on winning All-Irelands, and Alexander Walker's biography of Peter Sellers.

1. Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road — Dan B. Miller — The biography of the author of Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre — the Depression-era novels that made Caldwell one of the most controversial bestselling writers of the 1930s — and the complicated decades that followed fame.
2. iCon: Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business — Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon — Published as Jobs was returning Apple to dominance, this biography focuses on the NeXT and Pixar years: the period between his firing and his return that gave him the experience to reinvent everything.
3. The Confessions of Clyde Cameron 1913-1990 — as told to Daniel Connell — Cameron was one of the most powerful figures in the Australian Labor movement: Minister for Labour under Gough Whitlam, a union man of the old school, and a memoirist who doesn't spare his own side.
4. Baron Marks of Woolwich — Michael R. Lane — The biography of Simon Marks, who built Marks & Spencer into a British institution: the retail philosophy, the relationship with Israel Sieff, and the social values that made the company different from its competitors.
5. Peter Sellers: The Authorized Biography — Alexander Walker — Sellers was one of the most gifted comic actors in cinema history and one of the most difficult men alive: the Clouseau films, the Strangelove performance, the marriages, and the terrifying instability that produced all of it.
6. Of Salt and Earth: An Autobiography — Robert Close — Close wrote Love Me Sailor in 1945 and was prosecuted for obscenity in what became a landmark Australian literary case. His autobiography settles accounts — with the law, with his critics, and with his own career.
7. Edmund Wilson: A Biography — Jeffrey Meyers — The biography of America's greatest literary critic: the man who championed Fitzgerald and Hemingway, wrote Axel's Castle and To the Finland Station, and remained the central figure in American criticism for fifty years.
8. When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography — Jill Ker Conway — Conway, who wrote The Road from Coorain, examines the art of autobiography itself: why people write their lives, how gender shapes the story told, and what memoir can and cannot do.
9. Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience — Antonio Buti — Ronald Wilson was a Justice of the High Court who co-authored the Bringing Them Home report on the Stolen Generations — the finding that changed how Australia understood its own history. The biography of the man behind that decision.
10. Until Victory Always: A Memoir — Jim McGuinness with Keith Duggan — McGuinness managed Donegal to All-Ireland titles in 2012 and 2014 with an intensity that divided opinion. Afterwards he worked in elite sport in Asia. A memoir about what winning actually demands.
11. The Order of Things: A Life of Joseph Furphy — John Barnes — Furphy wrote Such is Life under the name Tom Collins — the great, strange, rambling Australian novel of 1903 — while working as a Shepparton ironworker. Barnes reconstructs the life behind one of Australia's most original books.
12. Alice in the Looking Glass: A Mother and Daughter's Experience of Anorexia — Jo and Alice Kingsley — Mother and daughter alternate chapters in this account of Alice's anorexia and its effect on the family — one of the more honest double-perspective accounts of a family illness.
13. Nash: The Official Biography — Nash Grier, as told to Rebecca Paley — The Vine star reflects on the decade that took him from a North Carolina teenager to one of the most followed people on the internet — with his own annotations throughout.
14. The Lonely Sea and the Sky: The Autobiography of Francis Chichester — Francis Chichester — Chichester learned to fly in the 1930s and sailed solo around the world at sixty-five. His autobiography is the record of a life devoted to going further than anyone thought possible.
15. Out in the Open: An Autobiography — Geoffrey Dutton — Dutton was a poet, publisher, biographer, and central figure of Australian literary life from the 1950s to the 1980s. His autobiography covers the Adelaide establishment he came from and the arts world he helped build.
16. Allan Callaghan: A Life — Ross Humphreys — The biography of Allan Callaghan, a figure in Australian literary and cultural life whose work and influence are documented here.
17. Walter Murdoch: A Biographical Memoir — John La Nauze — Walter Murdoch was the most widely read Australian essayist of the first half of the twentieth century, first Chancellor of the University of Western Australia, and grandfather of Rupert Murdoch. La Nauze's memoir is the standard account.
18. Conscripts: Forgotten Men of the Great War — Ilana R. Bet-El — The history of the British men conscripted from 1916 onwards — those who didn't volunteer but were called up in the war's second half — and what their diaries and letters reveal about a war they never chose.