The Dragon Empress by Marina Warner
25.00 AUD
Category: Historical Biography
From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's biography lays bare her complex personality- her extreme conventionalism; her h ...Show more
Neither King nor Saint - A Man and His Daughter's Search for Peace by Helen Topor
39.99 AUD
Category: Historical Biography
After my mother died, I brought home a tub of photos and documents she had collected. It was a Pandora's box. When I finally opened it, I discovered a photo of my father. I peered into his face, feeling the tide of many questions rushing into me. Why did you change so much? I wanted to ask. Why did you ...Show more
Peter's Wars - A Memoir by Peter Geddes
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This fiercely funny memoir is set in Melbourne during the 1940s. The entrenched Protestant-Catholic divide of those times informs the narrative. Juxtaposed is the gulf between Melburnians and the thousands of Yanks stationed in their city following Pearl Harbor; the dizzying effect on the women had far- ...Show more
Sir Josiah Symon KCMG KC: A biography by Ian Hancock
45.00 AUD
Category: Historical Biography
Josiah Symon arrived in South Australia from Scotland in 1866 just before his 20th birthday. His baggage included two boxes of books, references praising his primary school teaching and a few English pounds. In 1934 he left an estate valued in modern terms at $22 million. Symon acquired his wealth as th ...Show more
Radio Girl: The Story of the Extraordinary Mrs Mac, Pioneering Engineer and Wartime Legend by David Dufty
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II.
My Mother the Spy: The Daring and Tragic Double Life of ASIO Agent Mercia Masson by Cindy Dobbin, Freda Marnie Nicholls
34.99 AUD
Category: History
The true story of an undercover ASIO agent who was hung out to dry in the Cold War. 'I have lost everything in coming here. I have lost my friends... I have probably lost my position; I shall probably have to remove my child from the school and my mother from the house in which she lives. I do not thin ...Show more
How James Became King: The True Story of James 'King' O'Malley by Brian O'Malley
49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
King' O'Malley is known to history as a 'larrikin' and maverick politician, member of the first Australian Federal Parliament and Federal Minister, whose political career spanned two decades. Arriving from America in the late 1880s he quickly drew attention through his public shenanigans; his theatrical ...Show more
Ring the Chief Justice - The Quirky Adventures of an Australian Journalist in South Africa by John Lawrence
39.95 AUD
Category: Historical Biography
International journalist John Lawrence takes the reader at kaleidoscopic speed through high drama and rib-tickling humour as he relives nearly twelve years of adventures in sub-Saharan Africa. His racy memoir swings from west coast to east coast, with a detour to Mauritius, as he vividly describes the e ...Show more
A Good Cossack by Kavunenko, Nina
32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Biography
An Australian writer seeks to learn about the life of her Ukrainian father and the faraway place he called home. Born in 1916, he lived through the upheavals of collectivization and found himself amongst the Enemies of the People deported from the villages in 1930. How he survived in Stalin's totalitari ...Show more
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick
36.99 AUD
Category: Historical Biography
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime - a biopic of a ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, th ...Show more
Not Always Diplomatic: An Australian Woman’s Journey through international affairs by Sue Boyd
29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A pioneer for women in international diplomacy, Sue Boyd shares this account of her life in foreign service. A pioneer for women in international diplomacy, Sue Boyd shares this account of her life in foreign service.'An engaging account of life at the coalface by one of Australia's most active and effe ...Show more
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