Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Destruction [Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt] by Lynne Olson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The fascinating story of the feisty French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time- fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to sa ...Show more
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home by Alexander Wolff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
A powerful portrait of a Jewish German family divided by exile, abandonment and emigration.
Enemy by Ruth Clare
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
'I was born into the war still raging inside my father.' Ruth Clare's father came back from the Vietnam War a changed man: a violent, controlling parent and a dominating, aggressive husband. Through a childhood of being constantly on guard, with no one to protect her but herself, Ruth learned to be stro ...Show more
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The moving story of how, in just three generations, an ancient way of life was lost - as witnessed from the fields of a small Lake District farmAs a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient landscape- a ...Show more
Enid: The scandalous life of a glamorous Australian who dazzled the world by Robert Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
From the bestselling author of Sheila comes the story of an Australian socialite who fascinated the world. Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. The girl from Strathfield in Sydney stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and dared ...Show more
Escape ArtistA Memoir of an Artist on Death Row by William A. Noguera
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
"William A. Noguera tells his story from early childhood: heartrending experiences growing up physically and emotionally abused by his parents. It was no more safe outside, falling victim to vicious beatings by local gangs--a target of racial discrimination for being the only Colombian in a Mexican and ...Show more
Escape from Manus: The untold true story by Jaivet Ealom
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape from Australia's notorious offshore detention centre on Manus Island. In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar's brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed, and boarded a boat of asylum seekers bound for Australia. ...Show more
Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers by Helen Vines
$34.95 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Autobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her death in 1974. Was her writing the truth, or false, or somewhere in between? What did it mean when she described her father as ‘evil’ and ‘perverted’ in her first published novel The Pea Pi ...Show more
Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk by Tim Entwisle
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
In this wildly rich memoir, a director at some of the world's finest botanic gardens - Sydney, Kew and Melbourne - suggests such places are a cure for the world's ills.Tim Entwisle believes these sanctuaries can address the key threats of our time, such as climate change and plant extinction, while simu ...Show more
Every Cripple a Superhero by Christoph Keller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
An intimate, eye-opening exploration of the trials - and joys - of life with a progressive disabilityMost stories of disability follow a familiar pattern- Life Before Accident. Life After Accident. For Christoph Keller, it was different- his childhood diagnosis with a form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy onl ...Show more
Every Deep-Drawn Breath: an intensive-care doctor's notes on healing by Wes Ely
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
A world-renowned critical-care doctor offers hope for patients, their families, and the future of medicine in this timely, urgent, and compassionate work about the devastating and little-known physical and emotional effects of ICU stays. As COVID-19 survivors are discharged from hospitals, grateful to ...Show more
Every Hill Got a Story by Central Land Council
$60.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
This collective memoir is for anyone who has ever wondered why Aboriginal people choose to live in remote communities in the heart of Australia. It is for all who want to truly understand why nyinanyi ngurangka - being on country - is not a "lifestyle choice" but a hard won right, a spiritual and cultur ...Show more