Hitler's Lost Spy: The True Story of a Female Spy in Australia by Greg Clancy
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the remarkable story of the Swiss born Nazi spy, Annette Wagner. Her two years in Australia immersed in intrigue and shielded by a skilfully managed facade of deception. Tracked by Military Intelligence, her outstanding credentials in espionage ensured that exposing her ultimate role would never ...Show more
Beasts in My Belfry by Gerald Durrell
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
"A loving chronicle of jitter-bugging gnus, singing duets with a bear, stealing eggs to feed the Arctic foxes, practising tiger sniffs . . . Highly entertaining and informative" The TimesOver a year at Whipsnade Zoo we encounter a typically absurd cast - including Albert the lion, who's a dab hand at ve ...Show more
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family. At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the o ...Show more
Solomon's Noose: True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart by Steve Harris
29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order to "survive"; all in the context of the great struggl ...Show more
H. P. Lovecraft - Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. LovecraftPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France i ...Show more
Holy See, Unholy Me! (P.O.D) by Tim Fischer
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As the first Australian Ambassador to the Holy See Tim Fischer is is the unique position of being able to tell what it's really like in the seat of power in Rome. Here he reflects on his time in the Vatican, the details which made up his life, the protocols, the people and also on the role that religion ...Show more
Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics by Jesse Norman
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke is both the greatest and most under-rated political thinker of the past three-hundred years. Born in Ireland in 1729, and ...Show more
My Diarrhe by Miranda Sings
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Selp-Helf comes the "leaked" diary of YouTube comedic personality Miranda Sings. Taped together so the world can read all about her life through her eyes, My Diarrhe includes pages from Miranda's baby book, poems from her years as an emotional teen, s ...Show more
I Love the Bones of You by Christopher Eccleston
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'My father was an "ordinary man", which of course means he was extraordinary. I aim to capture him and his impact on my life and career.' - Christopher Eccleston Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, one man, in life and death, ...Show more
Janis - Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It's been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the 'creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation's mythology'. But how did a middle-class girl from Texas become a '60s countercultural icon? Janis' parents doted on her and promoted her early talent for art. But the arrival of a brother shat ...Show more
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. No one has lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime ...Show more
Oscar: A Life (Oscar Wilde) by Matthew Sturgis
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade, has to be Matthew Sturgis's Oscar ' TLS , Books of the Year. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019. A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'Simply the best modern biography of Wilde ... A terrific achievement' Evening Standard . 'Page-turning ... Vivid and ...Show more