Search Results: BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS from Bookhome Sydney

London: Fourth Estate, 2002. Paperback trade, very good condition, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 222 pp. This book tells the funny and bizarre but real story of life in the dotcom world - as a staffer of Amazon, the pioneering internet success story. Amazon scoured temp agencies looking for “freaks” and weird people (that is, creative people). The author - slacker, performer and dilettante - was perfect for the job.

London: Virago, 2007. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour & black & white photos, covers little creased, minor edgewear. 214 pp. Born in Wau, southern Sudan, as part of the Dinka tribe, she knew only a few years of peace with her family before being caught in a civil war that killed nearly two million people. Alek and her family fled the fighting by walking for miles to take refuge in safe villages. Eventually she escaped to London, and there she was 'discovered' aged 19. Now she is one of the most sought-after supermodels in the world (London, Paris, New York, Milan).

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2018. New ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, bottom corner tip front cover little creased, slight bump top spine, minor edgewear. 312 pp. This is the memoir of Sisonke Msimang who was born in exile, the daughter of South African freedom fighters. This is her story of her journey from Africa to America and back again, then on to a new home in Australia. The story is frank, fierce and insightful. She reflects candidly on growing up an outsider, the naive heady euphoria of returning at last to her parental homeland, and her disillusionment with present-day South Africa. Sisonke is a bold new voice on feminism, race and politics - in her beloved South Africa, in Australia, and around the world.

New York: Feminist Press, 1997. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos centre spread, few tiny dents rear cover, minor edgewear. 232 pp. Stunning autobiography of an immigrant mother, who moved from Malaysia and Singapore to the United States, where she developed as a feminist poet. (Moonfaces instead of 'moon faces' in some editions.).

Minehead, Somerset: Genge Press, 2007. 1st ed.. Paperback wide trade, very good plus condition, minimal edgewear. 119 pp. A biography of the Russian anarchist, who followed this path after witnessing the brutality of both the Tsarist regime, and the later Bolsheviks. Less well known is that he was a geographer by profession, and was a forerunner of the social ecology movement.

Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing, 2007. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, small mark top edge, minor edgewear. 287 pp. Susan Chitty documents Anna Sewell's strict Quaker upbringing and typically Victorian relationship with her dominating mother. She wrote the children's novel "Black Beauty" in her fifties on her deathbed, and sold it outright for GBP20. She did not live to know its success. This biography chronicles her tragic life from the tragic accident that left her lame at the age of 14. All lovers of Black Beauty, and horses generally, will enjoy this book about one of the best known and loved authors.

Amsterdam: Anne Frank House, 1994. 5th revised ed.. Paperback small square quarto, very good condition, black & white photos, minor edgewear corners. 228 pp. Anne Frank is one of the best known German-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. This book is a portrait of Anne Frank's life, and gives an account of historical developments between 1929 and 1945 in Germany and Netherlands. Many photos in this book appear for the first time. Fifth revised edition, published by Anne Frank House in Amsterdam (English edition).

Shannon, Ireland: Irish University Press, 1973. Facsimile ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), foldout chart, page edges foxed, jacket 90% complete (edge pieces missing bottom edge, edgewear, creased), protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 475 pp. The memoir of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, an Anglo-Irishman who was a staunch defender of Ireland - and who participated in the 1798 rebellion. Originally published in 1840: this facsimile edition, is copyright 1972. It was written in exile in the young United States republic, and was posthumously edited by William Drummond. It is a lively, personal narrative, revealing the serious but frivolous life of a political Irishman of property in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Introduction by R. B. McDowell.

London: Aurum Press, 1999. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 313 pp. Autobiography of the Bangladeshi economist who founded the Grameen Bank to provide small affordable loans (microfinance) to assist business development, particularly for women, in his poor country.

New York: Hachette Books, 2019. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, colour photos centre spread, minor edgewear. 337 pp. Stevenson Levingston, the Washington Post editor, provides a vivid and inspiring account of the extraordinary bromance that developed between Barack Obama and Joe Biden, which captured the American imagination and was unlike any President - Vice President relationship in American history, despite their strongly contrasting styles and characters.

New York: Penguin Books, 2021. Updated ed.. Paperback thick trade, very good condition, colour photos (some black & white & sepia), sepia (brown-tinted) photos inside covers, minor edgewear. 441 pp. This book is a work of deep reflection and warm storytelling. Michelle Obama describes her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address, the White House. Describing her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, she uses her own words and her own terms.

Sydney: Random House, 2013. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, top corner front cover creased, few tiny dents top edge, minor edgewear. 389 pp. Biography of the famous British pop group who also spent time in Australia. About their innovative sound and turbulent personal lives. There are revealing photos, musical insights, drama, and backstage stories in this true, inside story of the Bee Gees' music, ambition, creative imagination, and fame.

New York: Dover Publications, 1964. Paperback trade, good plus condition, light foxing edges, cover corners creased, minor edgewear. 110 pp. This unabridged book by Friedrich Kerst (originally published, 1905), includes over 300 of Beethoven's reflections on the art of composing. There are also his views on art and artists, on his own works, on education, nature, poetry, God, and other matters.

Malaysia: Betty Young, 2008. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white & colour photos, frontispiece, black & white drawings, minor edgewear. 304 pp. The British author writes about her life spent as a missionary in China and Malaysia. Betty and Peter brought English Christian Evangelicalism to Malaysia when they moved there to undertake missionary work. In this very special book she shares her life and offers encouragement to assist people along the way. The many drawings really add to the charm of this story.

Irving,TX: Tapestry Press, 2004. 3rd (40th Anniversary) ed.. Paperback large wide trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos, few tiny marks bottom edge, minor edgewear. 302 pp. This biography by Herbie Pilato of the American actor Elizabeth Montgomery is based on exclusive interviews with her prior to her death in 1995. This book contains everything a fan might want to know about the 1960s TV Series 'Bewitched'. It has background information , cast and staff biographies, script summaries, awards, trivia, etc. It also includes the later 'Tabitha' TV series. 40th Anniversary edition.

Melbourne: Hardie Grant, 2020. 1st ed.. Hardback dustjacket, very good condition (in very good jacket), colour & few black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) photos, spine ends little rubbed, front hinge slightly split (all pages firm), minor edgewear jacket. 698 pp. Malcolm Turnbull records his diverse and influential life. He describes his early years in Sydney, growing up with a single father, defending 'Spycatcher’ Peter Wright against the UK government, the years representing Kerry Packer and his media empire, leading the Australian Republican Movement (ARM), making millions in business, and becoming Prime Minister of Australia. He finally reveals all in his own words.

Singapore: National University of Singapore Press (NUS Press), 2008. Paperback octavo, very good condition, figures, black & white photos, top spine little bumped, minor edgewear corners. 287 pp. This book is the poignant story of a Chinese family's life in Indonesia, and of their emigration to Australia in 1967. There are few published accounts of Chinese life in Indonesia, and fewer still written from the perspective of a woman. This special biography has been written by An Sudibjo's son-in-law, Stuart Pearson, who began work on An's biography in 2003. An was a civil servant during the Dutch administration, and then a teacher after Indonesian independence. She ran a famous Indonesian restaurant in York Street, Sydney, for many years. This book will interest anyone wanting to learn about the middle years of the 20th century in Indonesia, especially students of the Chinese diaspora and scholars of Indonesia.

Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2002. Australian ed.. Paperback octavo, good plus condition, pages lightly toned, faint foxing edges, front cover & spine little creased, minor edgewear. 336 pp. A very personal memoir by David Brock about his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it. He tells his powerful story from the beginning, giving the first insiders view of what Hillary Clinton called a 'vast right-wing conspiracy’. Australian edition.

New York: John Wiley, 1997. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 261 pp. A provocative autobiography by Michael Bloomberg, the visionary leader of the world's fastest-growing media empire, including Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Financial Markets, which shook up the ossified financial information industry. A business magnate and philanthropist, he later served as Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013.

London: Simon & Schuster, 2017. U.K. p/b ed.. Paperback small thick trade, very good condition, black & white & colour (few sepia) photos at rear, minor edgewear. 510 pp. This is the autobiography of renowned rock musician Bruce Springsteen. He has devoted himself to writing the story of his life. He writes with the same humour, honesty and originality that is found in his songs. This is a book for workers and dreamers, families, lovers and loners, and anyone who wants to know about this legendary rock star.