Before I Forget: How I Survived a Diagnosis of Younger-Onset Dementia by Christine Bryden
$32.99 AUD
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'Some days all I want to do is give up the constant, exhausting struggle and stop trying to be normal. But I can't. It's not in me to walk away from a fight. I'll keep fighting and telling my story. Before I forget.' When she was just 46, Christine Bryden - science advisor to the prime minister and sing ...Show more
Report on Myself by Gregoire Bouillier
$25.00 AUD
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Distinguished by the same charm and playful prose that helped make "The Mystery Guest" such a cult favorite with readers, "Report on Myself" is the memoir that won Bouillier the French Prix de Flore as well as universal acclaim.
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
$35.00 AUD
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In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continue ...Show more
The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation by Christopher Cooper
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Get ready for a shocking account of one of the world's most notable inventors...Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. Though for years the Serbian-born engineering genius was relegated to relative obscurity (his contributions concealed by a number of nineteenth-centur ...Show more
Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding
$27.99 AUD
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Once considered a respectable rare-map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley made millions and was highly esteemed for his knowledge; until he was arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. Though pieces of the story have been told before, Blanding is the first reporter to gain access to ...Show more
Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld
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Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eyes; their hunters and their victims. Everything is Teeth is a delicate and intimate collection of the memories she brought home to Engla ...Show more
Bastards A Love Story by Mary King
$30.00 AUD
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'A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman.s quest to find the family she lost.' Peter Balakian..Born into poverty, Mary Hall and her older brother Jacob started out life with parents who, in Mary's words, were 'great at making babies, but not so great at holding on to them.' After being deserted ...Show more
Maggie & Me by Damian Barr
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It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive. Damian, his sister and his ...Show more
In Your Prime: Older, Wiser, Happier by India Knight
$22.99 AUD
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"I love India and her no-nonsense, honest and utterly hilarious guide to navigating the post-45 years." (Marian Keyes, Mail on Sunday). "A route map for the midlifer woman. Knight tackles every issue - beauty, menopause, laser eye surgery...she is not held back by the fear of laying down the law." (The ...Show more
After Perfect: A Daughter's Memoir by Christina McDowell
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The other side of The Wolf of Wall Street story by a daughter whose father destroyed his family. Christina McDowell's unflinching memoir is a brutally honest, cautionary tale about one family's destruction in the wake of the Wall Street implosion. Christina McDowell had to change her name to be legally ...Show more
Infiltrator Undercover in the World of Drug Barons and Dirty Banks by Robert Mazur
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Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they partied in expensive hotels, drank the world's finest ch ...Show more
Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower
$40.00 AUD
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A remarkable history with elements of both In the President's Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas.America's First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true characte ...Show more