BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS from Bookhome Sydney

London: Nottingham Court Press, 1984. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), frontispiece, maps, black & white photos & drawings, minor edgewear & edge tears jacket (laminate minimally lifted small area, minimal foxing reverse side), top edge lightly foxed, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 179 pp. This is the first English-language book on the life… Read more about this item

London: Mudlark / HarperCollins, 2022. 1st UK p/b, reprint ed.. Paperback thick wide octavo, very good condition, black & white & sepia & colour photos, front hinge slightly split (pages firm) , minor edgewear. 597 pp. Maggie Haberman reveals all about Donald Trump: the man, the president and the Trump phenomenon. She has interviewed hundreds of sources to tell… Read more about this item

London: Pocket Books, 2008. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, good condition, black & white photos, covers little creased, light foxing s& toning ome pages, minor edgewear. 353 pp. Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes about the many turns her life took after breaking with her family in Somalia, and how hard it was to assimilate into Western society (Netherlands, where she… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 1st p/b, reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, figures, few black & white text-photos, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 342 pp. This is a biography by Theodore Porter, of Karl Pearson, the British founder of modern statistics. Pearson's faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism… Read more about this item

Sydney, Crows Nest: Pier 9, 2014. New ed.. Paperback small trade, good condition, colour photos, single black & white photo, front hinge slightly split (all pages firm), top corner tip creased one page, minor edgewear, barcode sticker inside rear cover. 256 pp. In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and later abandoned deep… Read more about this item

London: Vintage, 2021. 1st Vintage ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, colour & few sepia (brown-tinted) photos, top corner tip front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 320g pp. This is the life story of Kamala Harris: one America’s most prominent political leaders, currently Vice-President. She draws on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own legal career and… Read more about this item

London: Bantam Press, 2020. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, corners & pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 215 pp. This is the story of Selma van de Perre who was 17 when the Second World War broke out. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had been of no consequence. By 1941, it had become a… Read more about this item

London: Simon & Schuster, 2011. 1st u.K. trade p/b ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 277 pp. Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes about the many turns her life took after breaking with her Somali family, and how hard it was to assimilate into Western society. A portrait of a family torn apart by the differences between Islam and… Read more about this item

London: Papermac / Macmillan, 1995. New ed.. Paperback small thick octavo, very good condition, frontispiece, black & white text-photos & drawings, slight foxing top edge, minor edgewear. 577 pp. Morton Cohen has written a biography of the author of the children's classic 'Alice in Wonderland'. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the real name of Lewis Carroll. His imagination created wild… Read more about this item

London: Simon & Schuster, 2020. U.K., reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear, owner's written name. 227 pp. An authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family by Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and his only niece. She shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback trade, good plus condition, corner tips covers little scuffed, minor edgewear. 229 pp. Daniel Tammet has been inspired by numbers, as well as the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's sixth finger, and his mother's unpredictable behaviour. He discusses questions such as why time seems to speed up as we age,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Sydney: HarperCollins, 2003. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, pages lightly toned, top corner tip front cover creased, minor edgewear, remainder stripe. 322 pp. A biography about the Peter Singer's grandfather, David Ernst Oppenheim (1881-1943). This is a very personal and hauntingly universal story. The author tells the story through the prism of … Read more about this item

Sydney, Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2022. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour photos, minor edgewear. 293 pp. Melody Horrill tells her family story and her later years when she formed a friendship with an injured dolphin named Jock from the Port River dolphins, Adelaide. Melody volunteered to help her university lecturer monitor pods of river dolphins… Read more about this item

Dublin: Gill & MacMillan, 2015. Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) photos, few colour photos, front & rear hinge slightly split (all pages firm), minor edgewear. 244 pp. In this political memoir, Irish politician Desmond O'Malley gives fresh insights into the events that have shaped Ireland's past and present - including the Arms… Read more about this item

London: Viking / Penguin Books, 2017. Reprint ed.. Hardcover octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), few black & white text-photos, minor edgewear jacket (small dent rear cover). 331 pp. This memoir by Claire Tomalin follows her through triumph and tragedy (in equal measure) from the bad marriage of her parents, the difficult wartime childhood that followed,… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback trade, very good plus condition. 421 pp. Bob Woodward reports on day-to-day dysfunction within the White House during the Donald Trump presidency, based on deep background interviews with numerous insiders. He covers critical domestic issues (such as tax, immigration, and the Charlottesville racial violence), as well as foreign issues… Read more about this item

London: Eland Publishing, 2004. New ed.. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photo (portrait), frontispiece map, spine lettering little faded as common, minor edgewear. 316 pp. Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. The First World War (WW1) changed everything. Death and financial disaster reigned, the Sultan was… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item