Passionate Spirit - The Life of Alma Mahler by Cate Haste
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The life of an extraordinary artist and intellect: the composer, author and socialite Alma Mahler, whose life spanned one of the most captivating and dramatic periods in historyBorn into the dying days of the Habsburg Empire, Alma Mahler was at the epicentre of fin de siècle Vienna's artistic and intell ...Show more
A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch by Sanam Maher
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A beautiful woman in winged eyeliner and a low-cut top lies on a bed urging her favourite cricketer to win the next match. In another post, she pouts at the camera from a hot tub. She posts a selfie with a cleric, wearing his cap at a jaunty angle. Her posts are viewed millions of times and the comments ...Show more
Heart by Sandeep Jauhar
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New Statesman A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year The heart l ...Show more
Gloucester Crescent - Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups by William Miller
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady in the van, and the familiar-looking residents crossing the road ...This is the story of the Miller family and their circle of brilliant, idealistic an ...Show more
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A series of fleeting images and memories ... united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose.' - Sally RooneyI am alone here in New York, no longer a we ...First published in 1979, Sleepless Nights is a unique collage of fiction and memoir, letters and essays, portraits and dreams. It is ...Show more
High Adventure: The Adventure Doesn't End When You Become a Dad by Mike Allsop
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What happens when a confirmed adventurer becomes a father? Does he continue his solo adventures? Is there a way of having it all - time with family plus adventures?
Hard Truth by Todd Carney
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The raw, honest and utterly compelling autobiography from one of rugby league's most talented, yet most notorious, players.
Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia by Angela Woollacott
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Don Dunstan was one of the most significant political figures of twentieth-century Australia. As Premier of South Australia, he blazed a trail of reform. But his influence reached far beyond his home state. He was seen as the architect of a new kind of Australian society, and his decade in office marked ...Show more
Life Sentence by Roberta Williams (Compiled by); Carl Williams
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary letters detailing Carl Williams last eighteen months in jail, discovered after his death.
Lawless - A Lawyer's Unrelenting Fight for Justice in One of the World's Most Dangerous Places by Kimberley Motley
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary story of Kim Motley, the US woman who became the first foreign lawyer to practice in Afghanistan.
Malcolm Young: The Man Who Made AC/DC by Jeff Apter
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first in-depth biography of Malcolm Young, from the author of High Voltage
Memories of Low Tide by Chantal Thomas
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gorgeous memoir of childhood, the mother-daughter bond and the transformative power of swimming, by multi-award-winning French author Chantal Thomas.