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I Am a Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A powerful memoir about a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world.She squeezes my hand and smiles. "I am here to feed hungry children in the village, because as Africans we must uplift each other." I don't understand what it means to uplift others, but I nod. ...Show more
Mother and I - The Fable of a Wilful Family by Ianto Ware
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After his mother's death, Ianto Ware revisits his childhood in suburban Adelaide, where his mother -- single parent, lesbian feminist, and ardent socialist -- waged a four-decade war on her conservative neighbourhood, primarily through the medium of gardening. Driven by humour, insight, and love, this ...Show more
Gough and Me: My Journey from Cabramatta to China and beyond by Christine Sykes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Gough Whitlam moves into her street in Cabramatta in 1957, eight-year-old Christine has little idea how her new neighbour, one of the most visionary and polarising political leaders of Australia, would shape the direction of her life. Born to working-class parents and living in a fibro house built ...Show more
Drugs, Guns and Lies - My Life As an Undercover Cop by Keith Banks (with Ben Smith)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to keep an eye on that important line between who you were and who you were pretending to be.' This is the true story of Keith Banks, one of Queensland's most decorated polic ...Show more
The Mauritanian (aka Guantanamo Diary) by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Previously published as Guantánamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion pictureThe first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored.Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guant ...Show more
The Broken House: Growing up under Hitler by Horst Krüger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kr ger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted w ...Show more
A Paper Inheritance by Dymphna Stella Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Dymphna Stella Rees - named after family friends Dymphna Cusack and Stella Miles Franklin - finds bundles of love letters buried in her parents' archive, she is intrigued by the discovery. Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees were a power couple of the Australian literary scene in the mid-twentieth ...Show more
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Among the Savages, her four offspring have now grown into fully-fledged demons. As their house starts to burst at the seams, the Jackson clan somehow manage (without really pl ...Show more
Pelosi by Ball Molly; Molly Ball
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
She's the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable ela ...Show more
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Alexander Lee
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' - Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors.'A notorious fiend', 'generally odious', 'he seems hideous, and so he is.' Thanks to ...Show more
Turns Out, I'm Fine by JUDITH LUCY
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When the relationship Judith Lucy thought was The One broke down, her world fell apart. Not only was she single again and about to turn fifty but now that she didn't have a partner to buy gourmet sausages with at Farmers' Markets, she realised how much her relationship had enabled her to avoid dealing w ...Show more
An Apartment on Uranus - Chronicles of the Crossing by By Paul B. Preciado; Foreword by Virginie Despentes; Translated by Charlotte Mandell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A "dissident of the gender-sex binary system" reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism.Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concep ...Show more