{"product_id":"secondhand-biography-memoir-travel-bargain-book-box-sp2939","title":"Secondhand Biography, Memoir \u0026 Travel Bargain Book Box SP2939","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Biography, Memoir \u0026amp; Travel Bargain Book Box SP2939\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis box won't keep still — it moves from Arctic ice to rural Provence, from Cambodian brothels to AFL football grounds, from \u003cem\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e to a Bill Bryson road trip. Nineteen books united by the commitment to telling the truth about what it actually feels like to be alive.\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\"\u003eLetters to My Daughter — edited by Heather Henderson — The private Menzies: letters to his daughter revealing the political and personal beliefs of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister in his own completely unguarded voice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Road of Lost Innocence — Somaly Mam — A Cambodian girl sold into sexual slavery who became one of the most powerful advocates for trafficking survivors in the world; harrowing, honest, and ultimately extraordinary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eStoryteller — J.D.F. Jones — Laurens van der Post was adventurer, author, soldier, mystic, and friend to princes — and, as this biography reveals, something of a fabulist; a riveting account of a life that was itself a kind of fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Life on the Left — Bill Guy — Clyde Cameron was never the kind of man who compromised quietly; this account of one of Australian Labor's most combative figures crackles with the energy of its subject.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCommitted — Elizabeth Gilbert — The author of \u003cem\u003eEat Pray Love\u003c\/em\u003e agrees to marry again and spends a year investigating the history, anthropology, and philosophy of the institution she's so reluctant to enter; sharp, candid, and far more interesting than it has any right to be.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLove Has No Limits — Tori Harris — An inspirational true story about what love asks of us when the terms are hardest; deeply moving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMy Attainment of the Pole — Dr. Frederick A. Cook — Cook claims he reached the North Pole first, and whether you believe him or not, the account of the journey itself is extraordinary; one of polar exploration's most contested and compulsive narratives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Piano in the Pyrenees — Tony Hawks — An Englishman buys a farmhouse in France, has a grand piano shipped across the Channel, and discovers that the gap between the life you imagine and the life you get is both funnier and more instructive than expected.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eHalfway to Hollywood — Michael Palin — The Python years giving way to the travel years, the films giving way to television, the diaries recording all of it with the warmth and precise observation that make Palin's journals essential reading.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eNotes from a Big Country — Bill Bryson — A man who spent twenty years explaining America to the British now turns to explaining it to itself, with the faintly baffled affection of someone who loves a place too much to pretend it makes sense. One of his best.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eJourney from Venice — Ruth Cracknell — Australia's finest stage actress reflects on travel, theatre, and the texture of a life in the arts; a memoir that reads as beautifully as she performed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Full Montezuma — Peter Moore — A trip through Central America and the Caribbean that goes wrong in most of the ways travel can go wrong, and right in all the ways that matter; Moore is self-deprecating, observant, and extremely funny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eStand Your Ground — Kevin Sheedy — Four premierships, a philosophy forged from obsession and setback, and a voice that never stops believing football is about something bigger than football; Sheedy on his own terms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLa Belle Saison — Patricia Atkinson — The vineyards of the Lot-et-Garonne through another season: physical labour, financial anxiety, and the recurring wonder that comes with choosing to grow something in foreign soil. Quietly addictive.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBy Little and By Little — Dorothy Day, edited by Robert Ellsberg — The essential writings of one of the twentieth century's most radical Catholic voices: journalist, pacifist, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and one of the great American prose stylists.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCan a Duck Swim? — June Porter — A life told with characteristic Australian candour; warm, funny, and full of the specific detail that makes autobiography worth reading.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAngela's Ashes — Frank McCourt — A Limerick childhood of astonishing poverty, presided over by a mother of immense dignity and a father who drank the rent; one of the great memoirs in the English language, and still essential.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMy Family and Other Animus — James Jeffrey — Gently lyrical and funny in equal measure — a book about the family you're born into and the person you become in spite of, and because of, them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMy Dream of You — Nuala O'Faolain — A woman approaching sixty researches a Victorian Irish scandal and finds it holding up a mirror to everything she has never allowed herself to want; a novel of longing and intelligence from one of Ireland's most powerful voices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49060132258011,"sku":"SP2939","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2939.jpg?v=1785805068","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-biography-memoir-travel-bargain-book-box-sp2939","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}