I Am Dynamite! Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Times Biography of the Year Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 'Outstanding.' The Sunday Times 'A revelation.' Guardian 'Wonderful.' The Times 'Riveting.' New Statesman Friedrich Nietzsche's work rocked the foundation of Western thinking and continues to permeate our culture, high and low ...Show more
Idiot Wind - A Memoir by Peter Kaldheim
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The author tells the story of one man's journey from addiction back to sobriety and sanity via the road.
Night Fishing by Vicki Hastrich
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A luminous and remarkable memoir of a singular life in art and nature.
Bob Dylan: His Life in Pictures by Harry Shapiro
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Bob Dylan: His Life in Pictures does exactly what the title says. In 256 pages with over 300 images it provides a timeline to this amazing career, showing highlights along with more mundane moments at home and on tour. Though this book may not help you to understand Dylan's lyrics, it provides a brillia ...Show more
Living with Coco Chanel by Caroline Young
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Living With Ser.
Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was one of the most influential and ground-breaking fashion designers of the twentieth century. This beautifully illustrated biography tells her remarkable story in a unique and accessible way, examining how the homes and landscapes of her life relate to her work.From her childho ...Show more
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea Di Robilant
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called "absolutely god-damned wonderful." A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a stri ...Show more
Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff by Andrew Kirtzman
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It was an inconceivable deception: over $65 billion stolen in the world's largest Ponzi scheme. With new and revealing interviews with those who worked closest to him and his family, "Betrayal" is an in-depth, penetrating look at the man who perpetrated history's most notorious financial crime. Despite ...Show more
A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built A Hospital and Changed the World by Edna Adan Ismail; Wendy Holden (As told to)
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An incredible true story SIMPLY A MIDWIFE is the inspirational story of a remarkable daughter, nurse and First Lady. The indomitable Edna Adan Ismail survived imprisonment, persecution, and civil war to become a pioneering politician, a leading light in the World Health Organisation, and a global campa ...Show more
A Short History of Falling by Joe Hammond
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places. 'As I get weaker, less a part of this world, or less a part of what I love, less a pa ...Show more
Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Sup.. by Alberto Manguel
37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Charmingly written in his signature engaging erudite style, Alberto Manguel examines how literary characters can have changing identities, and can suddenly shift from behind their conventional stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and life.In this personal reckoning with his favorite ...Show more
Intimate Antipathies by Luke Carman
24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Intimate Antipathies is a collection of essays on the writing life, offering Luke Carman's unique comic perspectives on writers' festivals, residencies and conferences, the particular challenges faced by writers who grow up in contested borderlands like the suburbs of Western Sydney, and the connections ...Show more
Heida: A Shepherd at the Edge of the World by Steinunn Siguroardottir
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Icelandic Sheep Farmer fighting an energy company
I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. I've been made every offer imaginable over the years. Men offer themselves, their sons...drunk fathers sometimes call me up and say things like: "Do you need a farmhand?" "I can lift the hay ba ...Show more