Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female circumcision; running away at twelve on foot through the des ...Show more
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
$19.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Waris Dirie, whose name means "desert flower", was born in Somalia of nomadic parents. She underwent extreme female circumcision at the age of five, and when she was 13 her father sold her into marriage with a 60-year-old for five camels, at which time she ran away. She was discovered by a fashion photo ...Show more
Purple Dandelion: A Muslim Woman's Struggle Against Violence and Oppression by Farida Sultana & Shila Nair
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Purple Dandelion is the true story of Farida Sultana, an extraordinary Muslim woman and single mother. The book is a reflection of her personal journey as an unconventional child who struggled through her adulthood and married life. Being a survivor of violence and abuse, Farida emerged as a strong advo ...Show more
Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir by Margaux Fragoso
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time. At two in the afternoon, when he would come and pick me up and take me for rides; at five, when I would read to him, head on his chest; in the despair at seven p.m., when he would hold me and rub my belly for an hour; in the des ...Show more
An Angel At My Table (Janet Frame Autobiography Omnibus) by Janet Frame
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals (essentially for wanting to pursue a caree ...Show more
My Friend Leonard by James Frey
$34.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Written in the hallmark visceral style of A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard is a mesmerising insight into a friendship formed in the most unlikely of circumstances.When James Frey first meets Leonard in the rehabilitation centre so powerfully described in A Million Little Pieces they are both r ...Show more
Marley and Me by John Grogan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow fur ball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barrelling, 44-kilo steamroller of a ...Show more
Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley
$36.38 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'If you've ever wept, "Why Do I Want To Run?" your answer is here.' Caitlin MoranAlexandra Heminsley had high hopes- the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga, she decided to run.Her first attempt did not end well.Six years later, she h ...Show more
Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography by P. D. James
$22.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks bac ...Show more