Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
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Category: Biographies
In this instantand tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight "offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh" (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one o ...Show more
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Perfect for fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed. Stephanie Land delves into the tenacity and anxiety of living – nay, surviving on poverty-level wages and intolerable working conditions. Amidst exhausting mental and physical efforts, the proverbial bootstraps bind ...Show more
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
The raw, candid and long-awaited autobiography from one of the greatest icons of the 20th Century In 2008, Paul Newman tasked his best friend with interviewing the people who had shaped his life, in order to create an oral history of it. After hearing and reading what they had to say, Newman dictated h ...Show more
Zelensky: The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World by Andrew L. Urban, Chris Mcleod
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Category: Biographies
He stayed, he fought, he conquered. The first major profile of Ukraine’s courageous President Volodymyr Zelensky. From comedian to president to freedom fighter, this is the story of Volodymyr Zelensky, the man who stood up to Vladimir Putin and forever changed the world. From the most famous comedic act ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition by Anthony Bourdain
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Category: Biographies
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bou ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Manifesto - On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
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Category: Biographies
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and act ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir by Sam Neill
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
Who Was Sylvia?: A Biography of Sylvia Breamer by Ralph L. Marsden
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biographies
Sylvia Breamer is a name now almost forgotten in film history, yet once she seemed destined to reach the top of the Hollywood acting profession. In 1918 the American fan magazine Photoplay hailed her " one of the acting finds of the year...Dusky, sensuous, sweet, a facile mirror to all of the voluptuous ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
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Category: Biographies
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton
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Category: Biographies
Read the book that inspired upcoming major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - the GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story ...Show more
The Nazis Knew My Name by Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity. In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other y ...Show more