Boyhood: A Memoir by J.M. Coetzee
$19.95 AUD
Category: General
A first volume of memoirs, revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, of a boy growing up in a small country town with a father he could not respect and a mother he adored. Coetzee evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood, in a world of unexplained rules he knew he must obey.
Falling Leaves - The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the extraordinary political events in ...Show more
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline, ' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's inf ...Show more
Palimpsest by Gore Vidal
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T.P. Gore, and in the various domestic situations of his complicated and exasperating ...Show more
The Life of Graham Greene : Volume 1 : 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
The author was granted complete access to Graham Greene's letters and diaries, and given the novelist's consent. This volume, the first of three, takes the narrative to the beginning of World war 2. "A superb biography - surprisingly penetrating, and compulsively readable" - Graham Lord
A Scandalous Life : The Biography of Jane Digby by Mary Lovell
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England s most scandalous at th ...Show more
The Home of the Blizzard: An Australian hero's classic tale of Antarctic discovery and adventure by Douglas Mawson
$39.95 AUD
Category: General
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD is a tale of discovery and adventure, of pioneering deeds, great courage, heart-stopping rescues and heroic endurance. This is Mawson's own account of his years spent in sub-zero temperatures and gale-force winds. At its heart is the epic journey of 1912-13, during which both hi ...Show more
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicioud civil war, and then as an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cove ...Show more
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
$22.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, hi ...Show more
A Tuscan Childhood by Kinta Beevor
$23.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between the world wars. "Wonderful . . . I fell immediately into her world, and was sorry when I reached the end."--Frances Mayes, author of "Under the Tuscan Sun." 63 illustrations throughout.
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
$25.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutio ...Show more