A Gypsy in Auschwitz by Otto Rosenberg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
A unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child's survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis, leaving behind schools, jobs, fr ...Show more
A Deadly Secret, the Bizarre and Chilling Story of Robert Durst by Matt Birkbeck
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The recent arrest in New Orleans and the HBO documentary The Jinx - scheduled to air on Fox in Australia in May - have put Robert Durst back in the headlines. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst's NYPD files, is the authoritative account of a decades-long criminal odyssey the very book found i ...Show more
Jackie: Life and Style of Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis by CHIARA PASQUALETTI JOHNSON
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
I want to live, not be a witness of my life. Beautiful. Cultured. Refined. Enviable. Admirable. Adored. Journalist. Philanthropist. Publisher. Jackie Kennedy was many things amongst them, she was and remains the most iconic First Lady the United States has ever seen. Discreet and seductive, she lived a ...Show more
My Wicked Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
A hero to millions who adored his portrayals of Robin Hood and Fletcher Christian, Errol Flynn (1909-59) lived a life that far surpassed any adventure he ever acted out on screen: exotic travels, criminal exploits, passionate love affairs, violent confrontations, scandals, and international fame. In thi ...Show more
Wild at Heart by Alienor le Gouvello
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
From the moment French-born Alienor encountered a pair of wild horses in the Australian outback, she was transfixed. Fiercely loved by some and considered a scourge by others, brumbies have a complicated place in Australian culture and history. Inspired to celebrate their character, Alienor tamed three ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: very good
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man by Margaret Simons
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The fascinating story behind the rabbits-to-riches ascendancy of one of Australia's most powerful men. Plucked from an orphanage as an infant, Kerry Stokes grew up in the slums and streets of post-Depression Melbourne with his itinerant adoptive parents. As a boy he trapped, skinned and sold rabbits to ...Show more
My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year 2023 by Barbra Streisand
$75.00 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) an ...Show more
No Worries If Not - A Funny(ish) Story of Growing up Working Class and Queer by Soph Galustian
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
No Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian's experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of short stories, spoken word, illustrations, and space for ...Show more
Tell Her She's Dreamin': A memoir for ambitious girls by Simone Amelia Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more. Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a sch ...Show more
The Villain Edit: A Memoir About Reality TV and Taking Control of the Narrative by Alisha Aitken-Radburn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
A memoir about identity and authenticity in the smoke-and-mirror worlds of politics, reality TV and social media, from Bachelor star Alisha Aitken-Radburn. When former government staffer Alisha Aitken-Radburn was given a 'villain edit' on her first season of The Bachelor, she wasn't entirely surprised-a ...Show more
I'll Let Myself In: Breaking down doors, claiming space and finding your wheels by Hannah Diviney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
A defiant coming of age story about a young woman coming to terms with all that she is, the good, the bad and the ugly. When it occurred to me that the only real books I'd ever read with disabled characters in them were specialty books, displayed and designed exclusively for therapy settings, some of th ...Show more