Margaret and Gough - The Love Story That Shaped a Nation by Susan Mitchell
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Gough had no small talk, Margaret had the gift of easy conversation. He was often ill-at-ease in company and preferred his books. She was warm, inclusive and jollied him along. He had a vicious tongue and a quick temper. She always tried to see the best in people. He knew everything about the ideology, ...Show more
David Walsh: A Bone of Fact by David Walsh
79.99 AUD
Category: Biography
David Walsh - the creator of Mona in Hobart - is both a giant and an enigma in the Australian art world. A multi-millionaire who made his money gambling, David has turned a wild vision into a unique reality; he is in turns controversial, mysterious and idolised. A Bone of Fact is his utterly unconventio ...Show more
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this powerful and compelling 'view from old age', Penelope Lively, at eighty, reports back on what she finds. There are meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us. There are intriguing examinations of key personal as well as historical moments she has lived through an ...Show more
Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An unflinching portrait of talent and addiction. In 2008 the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic.
Monash: The Outsider Who Won A War by Roland Perry
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Compelling and wholly absorbing... among the most remarkable Australians of his time? Bob Carr, Australian General Sir John Monash changed the way wars were fought and won. When the British and German High Commands of the First World War failed to gain ascendancy after four years of unprecedented human ...Show more
Messi by Guillem Balague
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi' Diego Maradona Despite all the fame and adulation, remarkably little is known about Lionel Messi, the modest and intensely private footballing genius. Just how did the boy from Rosario, Argentina, become the w ...Show more
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
The Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979 by Michael Palin
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Michael Palin's diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner ...Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA and Canada. As their popularity grew, ...Show more
Good Living Street by Tim Bonyhady
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From high society in Vienna to a small flat in Sydney; from patrons of the arts to refugees from the Holocaust; this is the enthralling story of three generations of women spanning a century of upheaval.
Princess by Jean Sasson
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Princess Trilogy
This title is a reissue of a shocking true story of life behind the veil.
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf H ss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children.In the aftermath of the Second World War, the ...Show more
One Leg Too Few by William Cook
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
One Leg Too Few will feature an extensive range of fresh interviews, previously unpublished archive material and a wealth of information about the most creative (and explosive) double act that British comedy has ever produced. One Leg Too Few is a book about an extraordinary relationship: a friendship, ...Show more