Becoming Beauvoir - An Iconic Life by Kate Kirkpatrick
$40.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
James: "One is not born a woman, but becomes one,’ Simone de Beauvoir famously declared. Using romantic affairs to test Existentialist ideas of freedom, and drawing on these in heavily autobiographical novels, de Beauvoir’s life embraced careful self-creation. Kirkpatrick teases thought and writing aga ...Show more
Becoming Dr. Seuss - Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay Jones
$31.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless favorites becau ...Show more
Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy by John Rodden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend. The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon Is Geo ...Show more
Becoming Kim Jong-un by Jung H. Pak
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The mysterious, brutal, and calculating Kim Jong Un has risen to become the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear rogue state. He now possesses weaponry capable of threatening America and its allies, and his actions have already significantly changed global politics. It's believed that Kim Jong Un is in hi ...Show more
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir by Irvin D. Yalom
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoirIrvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve, ...Show more
Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker. Let me tell you a story... When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their ...Show more
Bedtime Story (H/B Illustrated) by Chloe Hooper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Already acclaimed as a modern classic, Chloe Hooper's memoir of talking with her children about mortality is beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Anna Walker; this hardback, colour gift edition creates an irresistible object out of this magical work. By the bestselling author of The Tall Man an ...Show more
Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend by Rose Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her spectacular acts of defiance. Bee Miles was famous for appearing in public in towns and cities across Australia, breaking their rules, and living, she said 'recklessly'. But she was no ordinary w ...Show more
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal "Illuminating. . . . Tunbridge's pithy A Life in Nine Pieces is different and welcome: a biography presented through the focus of nine different compositions."--Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian" ...Show more
Before I Forget by Geoffrey Blainey
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a 'Living Treasure', in Before I Forget Geoffrey Blainey reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent in rural Victoria, from Terang to Leongatha ...Show more
Before I Forget by Geoffrey Blainey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a 'Living Treasure', in Before I Forget Geoffrey Blainey reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent in rural Victoria, from Terang to Leongatha ...Show more
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into beingTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Winner of the Stowe Prize 2021***Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cul ...Show more