Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller and 2018 Book of the Year, This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back in ...Show more
The Hockneys: Never Worry What the Neighbours Think by John Hockney
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Never Worry What the Neighbours Think' was the philosophy that Kenneth Hockney used to inspire his children - David Hockney, one of the world's greatest living artists and siblings John, Paul, Philip and Margaret - to each choose their own route in life. The Hockneys is a never before seen insight into ...Show more
The Cherry Picker's Daughter by Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert
29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The strength of family ties in Aboriginal communities is clearly evident when three-month-old Kerry and her brother lost both parents. Her father, Kevin Gilbert -- later to become a famous activist, writer, painter and actor -- killed their mother and was jailed for many years. Her father's sister, whom ...Show more
Assault by Media - The True Story Behind the Headlines by John Jarratt
24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In 2017, an unidentified woman accused respected Australian actor John Jarratt of an historic rape, which allegedly happened over 40 years ago.John Jarratt maintained his innocence of this assault from the start, but the allegation and the publicity surrounding it was enough to cost Jarratt his career a ...Show more
On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: My Mother and Other Missing Persons
*To be read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story. In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days w ...Show more
Byron In Love by Edna O'Brien
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Edna O'Brien has always had a gift for writing about affairs of the heart' Guardian 'Her boldly coloured portrait rewrites his life with all the brio and elan for which her novels are renowned' The Herald 'Hugely enjoyable' Daily Telegraph BYRON IN LOVE - the nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of By ...Show more
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings, debt an ...Show more
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Over the years Julie Andrews has been much interviewed in the press and on television, but she has never before revealed the true story of her childhood and upbringing. In HOME she vividly recreates the years before the movies. An idyllic early childhood in Surrey was cut short when her parents divorced ...Show more
Being John Lennon by Ray Connolly
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently articulating, the group's moment in history. Chronicling a ...Show more
Home Work: A Memoir of My Years in Hollywood (HB) by Julie Andrews
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Home, the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound ...Show more