Biographies for Dad
Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz
$32.95 – Paperback / Transit Lounge Publishing
Like the best true life adventures, the story of Werner Pelz is stranger than fiction. Forced to flee Nazi Germany for being Jewish, he was then interned in England for being German. Shipped to Australia on the notorious HMT... Buy or find out more→
A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends
$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
A collection of reminiscences that reaveal the private Michael Kirby, opening up as never before in a beautifully written, reflective and generous memoir. Michael Kirby is one of Australia's most admired public figures. At a... Buy or find out more→
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schindler of Asia'
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schlindler of Asia. At once a non-fiction thriller and a moral maze, this is one man's epic story of trying to find a safe place in the world. When Ali Al Jenabi flees Saddam... Buy or find out more→
A Life with Books
$4.95 – Paperback / Vintage
In the essay, Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand bookshops around the country. He ends by praising the physical book and expressing the... Buy or find out more→
Octopus Sam Israel The Secret Market And Wall Streets Wildest Con
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colourful cast of rogues and schemers, for a 'secret market' beneath the financial market we all know. Buy or find out more→
The Wolf and the Watchman: A CIA Childhood
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
What happens when a father asks his son to lie for the greater good? Growing up, Scott Johnson always suspected that his dad was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the... Buy or find out more→
Michael Kirby: Law, Love and Life
$45.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Drawing on interviews with Kirby, his family, friends, and Johan van Vloten, his partner of more than forty years, this intimate biography takes us behind the bench to explore the personal, moral and spiritual convictions of one... Buy or find out more→
Winter Journal
$29.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
In Winter Journal, Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived; her troubled... Buy or find out more→
James Halliday: A Life in Wine
$45.00 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
A delightful collection of James Halliday's reminiscences of his remarkable wine career, from the master himself. In a much-lauded career in wine spanning over forty years and accumulating innumerable awards, James Halliday has... Buy or find out more→
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
$22.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
'Immaculately well done. Tomalin has managed to unearth a wealth of material about the uncharted life of Samuel Pepys' - Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'Sex, drink, plague, fire, music, marital conflict, the fall of kings,... Buy or find out more→
The Boy Who Wouldn't Die
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
The inspiring true story of David Nyuol Vincent, a Sudanese refugee who survived famine, wars and 17 years in refugee camps to build a new life in Australia. David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern... Buy or find out more→
Bert Hinkler The Most Daring Man In The World
$32.99 – Paperback / ABC Books
Grantlee Kieza tells the thrilling story of Bert′s life and with it the bigger story of how the world was changed forever by men like Hinkler. Fast paced and revealing, this is an overdue, full blooded biography about one of... Buy or find out more→
More Lives Than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
'A major contribution to our understanding of literature and politics in the tumult of interwar Germany' Harold James Hans Fallada was a drug addict, womanizer, alcoholic, jailbird and thief. Yet he was also one of the... Buy or find out more→
Wilkie Collins: Bk 6
$27.95 – Hardback / Vintage
Ackroyd at his best -- a gripping short life of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White. Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable... Buy or find out more→
Every Beat of My Heart: An ABC Journalist's Journey From Death By Cardiac Arrest to Complete Recovery
$29.99 – Paperback / ABC Books
One ordinary weekday evening, Jeff Waters had just gone to bed in his Melbourne home when pain began in his left arm and chest. He mentioned it casually to his wife, a GP, but dismissed her evident alarm - after all, he ate... Buy or find out more→
An Incredible Race of People
$40.00 – Hardback / Murdoch Books
In 1988, Queensland politician Bob Katter Jnr was, at short notice, called upon to officiate and entertain the King and Queen of Spain. At dinner the three discussed Australian white settlement and our forebears, prompting... Buy or find out more→
Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
$27.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Hailed by Salman Rushdie as one of the most important voices coming out of Latin America', the best-selling author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir excavating for the first time his profound and... Buy or find out more→
Youth Not Wasted
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
′People who truly live in the outback listen to it. What they hear, I do not know ... What the country says is beyond words.′ In the early 1950s, Australia was riding on the sheep′s back and no-one doubted the wisdom of... Buy or find out more→
William Lawrence Baillieu: The Story of Melbourne's Money King
$65.00 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
Born in Queenscliff in 1859, William Lawrence Baillieu rose from a humble background to become a successful auctioneer during Melbourne’s feverish land boom of the 1880s. He quickly built a large fortune, only to lose it all in... Buy or find out more→
Charles Dickens: A Life
$22.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
The tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by an unparalleled literary biographer. Charles Dickens: A Life gives full measure to Dickens' heroic stature--his huge virtues both as a writer and as a... Buy or find out more→
The Prez
$33.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
′This story is a true account of the birth of outlaw motorcycle clubs in Australia. There was no template for us, it just evolved. It shows our simple creed: loyalty to the club and respect for your brothers.′ David... Buy or find out more→
The Doors
$32.99 – Hardback / Faber and Faber
The author saw the Doors band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. This title tells the story of the band. Buy or find out more→
Playground Duty
$34.99 – Paperback / NewSouth Publishing
In the baking heat of February 1973, wearing a purple nylon bodyshirt and an expression of confidence that belied his nerves, Ned Manning faced down a classroom full of kids in Tenterfield in remote NSW. It was the start of... Buy or find out more→
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legacy
$29.99 – Paperback / Atlantic Books
He believed the dog was immortal...' So begins the sweeping story of Rin Tin Tin: the story of a canine superstar and of American popular culture, spanning nearly a century and many human lives, told in the inimitable style of... Buy or find out more→
Fierce Focus: Greg Chappell
$45.00 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
Greg Chappell was the outstanding Australian batsman of his generation. Though he had an appetite for big scores, it was his calm brow and courtly manner that bowlers found just as disheartening. When he followed his brother... Buy or find out more→
Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad and Life Was a Catch-22
$24.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A memoir of the author, from her colourful family members and her parents' passionate and tumultuous marriage, to her father's celebrity friends and the family's eccentric neighbours (Mel Brooks was a close confidante, Sidney... Buy or find out more→
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
A gripping, triumphant memoir about the power of addiction and its effect on the brain Marc Lewis knows addiction: that desperate ambition to get high accompanied him around the world for many years. In the 1960s, Lewis... Buy or find out more→
Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century
$29.95 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
A vivid biography of John Lee Hooker, from a critically acclaimed journalist Buy or find out more→
Fishing the River of Time
$29.95 – Hardback / Text Publishing Co
Fishing the River of Time is an elegant meditation on nature, life and family, written with warmth and wisdom. At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old... Buy or find out more→
Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his working-class home north of Glasgow and travelled hundreds of miles to an English monastery to be trained for the priesthood. By twenty-five, he had been ordained and was working in the... Buy or find out more→
Distrust That Particular Flavor
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Brings together the author's writings on a variety of contemporary subjects: the differing cultures of Japan and Singapore; music and the movies; what's wrong with the internet; the interactive relationship between writers and... Buy or find out more→
The Double Life of Herman Rockefeller
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
In January 2010 a law-abiding, church-going father of two from Melbourne's leafy eastern suburbs didn't come home after a business trip and his burnt remains were found in a northern suburb – the wrong side of town – a week... Buy or find out more→
Martin Amis: The Biography
$35.00 – Hardback / Constable and Robinson
A biography of Martin Amis, one of the most famous and controversial authors. Featuring many interviews with Amis, it gives a of this towering literary persona. Buy or find out more→
Memoirs of a Young Bastard: The Diaries of Tim Burstall, November 1953 to December 1954
$59.99 – Hardback / Melbourne University Press
Tim Burstall was a key figure in Australian postwar cinema. As a director, writer and producer, he was instrumental in revitalising Australia's dying film industry and launching the careers of many well-known actors. But in... Buy or find out more→
There Stands My House
$24.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
The first English-language translation of the memoirs of Hans Keilson, one of Europe’s most masterful and remarkable writers In this unique work, which was composed in the 1990s and only recently rediscovered, Keilson... Buy or find out more→
Tolstoy: A Russian Life
$24.99 – Paperback / Profile Books Ltd
Tolstoy'sWar and Peace andAnna Karenina are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here is a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote... Buy or find out more→
Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power
$32.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
When Rupert Murdoch called, Prime Ministers and Presidents picked up the phone. David McKnight exposes Murdoch's unflinching use of his media empire to further his political agenda over decades. This is the story behind the... Buy or find out more→
As I Was Saying
$27.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
As I Was Saying is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide... Buy or find out more→
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
This astonishing, brilliantly written book brings us to places we could otherwise never go as it unfolds a riveting contemporary drama: a group of remarkable people striving to better their lives, in an age of bewildering global... Buy or find out more→
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
$45.00 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group
An extraordinary book which gives a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed the world. Written from hours of interviews with Steve Jobs himself, family, friends,... Buy or find out more→
When Gods Collide: An Unbeliever's Pilgrimage Along India's Coromandel Coast
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
‘For ten years I’d been picturing the mob marching across the field to Manoharpur with flaming torches, then standing, shouting, around the jeep, rocking it, and then as I focused on the back window and saw three indistinct... Buy or find out more→