Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, PM by Don Watson
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
If he had never become Prime Minister, Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's work ...Show more
Keith Richards - Life by Keith Richards
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world. A true and towering original, he has always walked his own path, spoken his mind, and done things his own way. Now at last Richards pauses to tell his story in the most anticipated ...Show more
Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream - Asian style. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head- first into schooling, romance and ...Show more
Florence Broadhurst: Her secret and extraordinary lives by Helen O'Neill
65.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This deluxe edition of Helen O'Neill's award-winning book is a must for lovers of design. With stunning full-page prints of Florence Broadhurst's distinctive fabric and wallpaper designs, together with gorgeous photographs of interiors from around the world using her amazing patterns, this is a beautifu ...Show more
The Moon And Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage classics
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by ...Show more
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Before Eat, Pray, Love there was Almost French. 'This isn't like me. I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Paris hadn't even been part of my travel plan a' After backpacking her way around Europe journalist Sarah Turnbull is ready to embark on one last a ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In this record of a life-long love affair with the sea, Tim Winton's prose ripples, shimmers and surges with awe and respect for how the ocean has not only sustained him physically and emotionally but determined the very rhythms of his life.' Fiona Capp, The Age On childhood holidays to the beach the su ...Show more
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn n ...Show more
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Moab is My Washpot is in turns funny, shocking, tender, delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readable. Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expuls ...Show more
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the go-go nineties, Jordan Belfort proved that you didn't need to be on Wall Street to make a fortune in the stock market. His company was good at separating wealthy investors from their cash and spending it as fast as it came in--on hookers, yachts, and drugs. But when Jordan's empire crashed, the m ...Show more
Don't Die With the Music in You by Wayne Bennett, Steve Crawley
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The autobiography of the premiership-winning coach of the Brisbane Broncos. One of Rugby League's shrewdest and most innovative mentors, his profile on Australian Story revealed him as a man of great compassion with powerful family ties.
Life on Air by David Attenborough
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly six decades, and in this volume of memoirs Sir David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places he has visited. His first job - after Cambridge ...Show more