Item category 1: Biographies & Memoirs

Hillary Clinton is the most famous, enigmatic and controversial woman in America. She stands on the brink of becoming the first woman in its history with a shot at the presidency. What is the story behind her meteoric rise?

Barack Obama's success in becoming President-Elect of the United States means he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the world. In this bestselling book Obama discusses the importance of empathy in politics, his hopes for a different America with different policies, and...

"James McBride has written a powerful portrait of growing up, a meditation on race and identity, and a poignant, beautifully crafted hymn from a son to a mother."--Provided by publisher.

"Glenn McGrath is one of the most highly regarded fast-medium pace bowlers in cricketing history, and a leading contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket from the mid-1990's to 2007. He holds the world record for the highest number of Test wickets by a fast bowler. He announced his r...

"'A long time ago, but still barely more than ten years, I had another life. In the fast lane. But death changed all that. My brother, John, and my husband, Paul, slid slowly away within three days of each other and nothing was ever the same. Grief sent me mad for a while. Although I only underst...

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Now it's time to leave the history classroom and go down the hall to the English lesson. "Secret Lives of Great Authors" contains irreverent and fun-filled bios of all the writers you were forced to read in school, from Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson to J. D. Salinger ...

"Maree was left with three small daughters when her husband and son were killed in a light plane smash. Cheryl lives in such a remote area, she had to winch herself and her three children across the Murray River to get the eldest to school. Alice admits she couldn't even tell a cow from a bull wh...

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. The spellbinding account by an attractive and feisty young woman who witnessed personally Hitler's racist spite at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and had to endure the shock of the disappearance of her best friend and her family during Krist...

AU Author. This moment was not his alone, nor could it ever have come about without him... Gough Whitlam turned to Graham Freudenberg, touched him lightly on the shoulder, saying, "It's been a long road, Comrade, but we're there", and walked out to meet the spotlight... Acclaimed biographer Jenny...

Tom Sawyer is among the best known, most loved characters in American fiction. As everyone remembers, he and Huck Finn camped on an island, got lost in a cave, and visited an old graveyard at midnight. These adventures were based upon the author's real boyhood experiences along the Mississippi Ri...

For almost half a century, J. G. Ballard has been one of this country's most important writers. In this revelatory autobiography, he charts the course of his remarkable life. Beginning with his early childhood, spent exploring the vibrant surroundings of Shanghai, Miracles of Life takes us from t...

"When Gabrielle Carey's mother, who is usually pedantically punctual and organised, begins to forget basic things like where she put her dentures, Gabrielle knows that something is wrong. Scans reveal a brain tumour, and doctors advise its urgent removal. But there is another urgency at hand. Bid...

WOMEN'S STUDIES. Wadad Makdisi Cortas eloquently describes her personal experience of the events that have fractured the Middle East over the past century.Through Cortas' eyes we experience life in Lebanon under the oppressive French mandate, and her desire to forge an Arab identity based on reli...

The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment in American history, and one with truly global resonance. 'The Bridge' offers a portrait of the man who was determined to become the first African-American president.

A brand-new biography of the seminal figure of Chinese culture.

Edmund Stirling arrived in the Swan River settlement in 1830. For over fifty years he was involved with the local newspaper industry, and for most of that time was the sole proprietor and editor of one of the major early newspapers, The Inquirer... Stirling and his paper were held in high regard ...

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. This book tells the incredible, uplifting and inspiring life story of one of our favourite personalities. Tragedy, humour, heartac...

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a...

Part love story, part wine-splattered cookbook. A story of falling in love in france and moving to the worlds most romantic city, with alot of good cooking in between.

He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court -- but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game. With its breakneck tempo and raw candor, this book will be read and cherished for years. A treat for ardent fans, it will also...

Lockwood was the family farm property; Babakin, in the Central Wheatbelt, the district. The book, rather than being strictly a family history, attempts to portray living conditions and a way of life, a snapshot in time.

Review: "At twenty-three, Dani Shapiro was in the midst of a major rebellion against her religious upbringing. She had dropped out of college, was half-heartedly acting in television commercials, and was carrying on with an older married man when her life was changed, in an instant, by a phone ca...

Charles Court: I love this place is an in depth look at the life and career of one of Western Australia's most successful premiers. This is the story of Sir Charles Court and the progressive and sometimes divisive decisions made during his 30 year political life. Meticulously researched and drawi...

BIOGRAPHY: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one ...

GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY & EXPLORATION. AUSTRALIAN. Douglas Mawson was an Australian original, a great Polar Explorer in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration. This book focuses on Mawson's extraordinary feats in Antarctica, in tandem with the giants of the age, Scott of the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Sha...

'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.' From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. D...