Biography
- Author:Savage, CandaceSummary:
- Author:FACEY, Albert BSummary:
The author's experiences of a life-time in the W.A. hinterland - farming, droughts, Gallipoli, the Depression and World War Two. Told with great feeling.
- Author:PARK, RuthSummary:
The first volume of the author's autobiography. Written as vividly as any of her novels, this is a moving, passionate and funny account of her early childhood, living alone with her parents in the rainforests of New Zealand.
- Author:Conant, JennetSummary:
Conant delivers a stunning account of Julia Child's early life as an Office of Special Services agent in the Far East. Who would ever suspect that Julia Child--TV's popular cooking show host and master of French cuisine--was...
- Author:Ghomeshi, JianSummary:
Jian Gomeshi uses music as a platform for his memoir about a pivotal year in his life in which he explores young love, heartache, conformity, and how to be cool.
- Author:Zuckoff, MitchellSummary:
13 Hours presents, for the first time, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, in Benghazi. This is the story, told in spine-tingling detail, of what happened on the ground, as told by the men who faced terrorism head-on--...
- Author:McCourt, FrankSummary:
Frank McCourt’s glorious childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of...
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"Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess...
- Author:CROUCH, MichaelSummary:
The colourful life story of T.A.G. Hungerford, the last grand old man of Australian literature. The author of four major novels, a short-story writer par excellence and a poet, Hungerford has also been a soldier and traveller.
- Author:DENNISON, MatthewSummary:
Princess Beatrice was the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was only four. His death overshadowed the remainder of the Queen's life. The Queen insisted that her youngest and most...
- Author:STEPHENS, TonySummary:
Sir William Deane was Governor-General during a time of great change in this country-political, economic and social. He was a unifying force throughout; and even those who may have disagreed with some of his views recognised that he...
- Author:Kerkhoff, BlairSummary:
Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen overcame the argument of James Naismith, inventor of the game, that basketball didn't need a coach. Allen served (for a while under Naismith) at the University of Kansas as coach from 1907 to 1909 and from 1919...
- Author:STATHAM-DREW, PamelaSummary:
Man of action, naval officer, able administrator, skilled diplomat - James Stirling's distinguished and multi-faceted career carried him to the four corners of the nineteenth century world.
- Author:HUNTER, GregSummary:
A powerfully honest insight into the world of this amazing swimmer.
- Author:Marlena de BlasiSummary:
On a forgotten patch of earth where Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio collide, Marlena de Blasi settles with her Venetian husband, Fernando, in search of a new life. The routines they establish are not that different from those of villagers...