Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Thomas Keneally
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Lives Biographies (Paperback)
The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In ...Show more
Rock Me Gently : A True Story of a Convent Childhood by Judith Kelly
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For many years I suffered the nightmares born of the time I spent at that convent. The memories that project across my mind are shared by the silent community of victims who once lived as I did, in a world that was deaf to our circumstances. In the 1950s, shortly after her father's death, Judith Kelly w ...Show more
The Jerilderie Letter by Alex McDermott
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Australian icon, Ned Kelly, dictated The Jerilderie Letter, his astonishing manifesto, and an amazing record of his voice, to Joe Byrne in February 1879, immediately before he held up the Bank of New South Wales in Jerilderie. It is one of the greatest documents of Australian history and influenced Pete ...Show more
Fortune's Daughters : The extravagant lives of the Jerome sisters : Jennie Churchill, Clara Frewen & Leonie Leslie by Elisabeth Kehoe
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The story of the three Jerome sisters is one of love, glamour and money in equal measure. Born to a New York stockbroker and his extravagant wife, Jennie, Clara and Leonie were provided with every advantage. Jennie Jerome married Randolph Churchill, younger son of the Duke of Marlborough and was Winston ...Show more
Race Against Time - Diaries of by RADIC Therese (ed)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Churchill by Sir John Keegan
$21.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
The greatest politician and statesmen of the 20th century - by Britain's leading military historian.Was Churchill as a great a wartime leader as he has hitherto been made out? John Keegan discusses the view of the soldiers such as Alanbrooke, his wartime Chief of Staff, and considers Churchill the polit ...Show more
A Crowd is Not Company by Robert Kee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee was an RAF bomber pilot in the Second World War. His plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, he was captured and spent three years and three months in a German POW camp. From the beginning he was intent on escape. After several false starts he finally made i ...Show more
All of These People : A memoir by Fergal Keane
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Category: Biography & Memoir
During his years of reporting from the world's most savage and turbulent regions, Fergal Keane has witnessed the violence of the South African townships and the terror in Rwanda, the most extreme kinds of human behaviour, the horror of genocide and the bravery of peacekeepers faced with overwhelming odd ...Show more
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage. Nureyev's achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lo ...Show more