{"product_id":"secondhand-biography-memoir-bargain-book-box-sp2918","title":"Secondhand Biography \u0026 Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2918","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Biography \u0026amp; Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2918\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\" class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eErskine 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eiCon: Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business — Jeffrey S. Young \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBaron Marks of Woolwich — Michael R. Lane — The biography of Simon Marks, who built Marks \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePeter 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eOf 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eEdmund 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSir 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eUntil 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAlice 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eNash: 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eOut 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAllan 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWalter 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eConscripts: 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49060779884763,"sku":"SP2918","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2918.jpg?v=1785814545","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-biography-memoir-bargain-book-box-sp2918","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}