The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour and style, with tribute paid everywhere from Lord Byron to Casablanca. But who was this young widow - the 'Veuve' - Clicquot, whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune? Newly widowed, s ...Show more
Adventures of a Young Naturalist by David Attenborough
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Category: Biography
Living legend and presenter of BBC's Planet Earth series Sir David Attenborough tells the story of his early career as a broadcaster and a naturalist in his own words. In 1954, David Attenborough, a young television presenter, was offered the opportunity of a lifetime--to travel the world finding rare a ...Show more
What My Daughters Taught Me by Joseph Wakim
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A heartwarming memoir of a widower bringing up his three daughters - and the precious life lessons they taught him along the way.
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Anne Frank
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her f ...Show more
Trapped by Marcus and Julie Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How Australian Marcus Lee and his wife, Julie, survived wrongful imprisonment, house arrest and five years of trials and tribulations in Dubai. In 2006 Marcus Lee moved to Dubai with his wife, Julie, to take up his dream job working for Nakheel, the emirate's largest property developer. Everything went ...Show more
American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific ...Show more
Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
Wandering Through Life - A Memoir by Donna Leon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more
The Jane Austen Remedy: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a book can change a life by Ruth Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen's novels. 'Ruth Wilson . . . emerges from this discreet, wry memoir as quietly defiant as any heroine from the Jane Austen novels she so admires.' THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD A ...Show more
Walking the Himalayas: An Adventure of Survival and Endurance by Levison Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'Levison Wood has breathed new life into adventure travel.' Michael Palin'Levison Wood is a great adventurer and a wonderful storyteller' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bestselling author of Walking the Nile 'Levison Wood is "bewildered" by ...Show more
Don't Look Back, You'll Trip Over by Michael Caine
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The winner of two Academy Awards, starring in over 160 films over eight decades, Michael Caine has found his place as not just one of the best screen actors of our times, but also one of our most loved and admired. In conversation with writer and friend Matthew D'Ancona, he looks back over his long li ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more