Write Home for Me by Jean Debelle Lamensdorf
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Working as a journalist at the Adelaide Advertiser in 1966, Jean Debelle yearned to be involved in the biggest story of the decade - the Vietnam War. But only male journalists in Australia were being sent to cover the escalating conflict. Instead, she volunteered to work in Vietnam for the Red Cross to ...Show more
Brian Howard by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster
$20.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Brian Howard was expected to become one of the leading authors of his generation, but instead he became a secondary character in the books of others. Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster’ s biography makes him — at last — the protagonist of his own highly entertaining story. Packed with dishy reminiscences and ext ...Show more
Nelson : Britannia's God of War by Andrew Lambert
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Nelson explores the professional, personal, intellectual and practical origins of the man's genius, to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced transformed the art of conflict, and enabled his country to survive the challenge of total war and international isolation. The most a ...Show more
The Sewing Circles of Herat - A Memoir of Afghanistan by Christina Lamb
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Long haunted by her experiences in Afghanistan, Lamb returned there after last year's attack on the World Trade Centre to find out what had become of the people and places that had marked her life as a young graduate.This time seeing the land through the eyes of a mother and experienced foreign correspo ...Show more
House of Stone by Christina Lamb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. In 2000, after Robert Mugabe had launched his controversial land reform programme, Nigel Hough held on to a fervent hope that he might keep hold of his ...Show more
Freedom in Exile by The Dalai Lama His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso
$28.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1938 a two year old boy was recognised through a traditional process of discovery as being the reincarnation of all previous Dalai Lamas, the spiritual rulers of Tibet. Taken away from his parents, he was brought up in Lhasa according to a monastic regimen of rigorous austerity and in almost total is ...Show more
House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.
My Ear at His Heart - Reading my father by Hanif Kureishi
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Following the discovery of an unfinished manuscript written by his father, Kureishi looks back on his own development as a writer in the light of his father s unrealised literary ambitions A remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, and the moving discovery of family secrets. When Hanif Kur ...Show more
The Mascot (O/P 23/4/09) by Mark Kurzem
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Hiding in a tree, 5 year old Jewish boy Alex Kurzman witnesses his family murdered by a German execution squad. He escapes and after many harsh months falls into the hands of a Latvian police battalion. These soldiers adopt him as a mascot and he becomes a part of the Nazi propaganda machine.<br& ...Show more
Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this beautifully written and thrillingly told true story of one man's heroic odyssey from blindness into sight, critically acclaimed author Robert Kurson takes us on a journey of suspense, daring, romance, and insight into the mysteries of vision and the brain.
Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The full account of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which for two years recorded the picture of the gross human rights violations committed under apartheid between 1960 and 1993. "Her accounts are so powerful, her resilience, humour and compassion so engaging...to have written this b ...Show more