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
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J. Mazzeo
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour and style, with tribute paid everywhere from Lord Byron to Casablanca. But who was this young widow - the 'Veuve' - Clicquot, whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune? Newly widowed, s ...Show more
The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne De Courcy
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Women in History Ser.
The Viceroy's Daughters is the riveting chronicle of the dazzling lives of three remarkable sisters -- aristocratic, rich, spirited and willful-born when the wealth and privilege of the British upper classes were at their zenith. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (born 1898) and Alexandra (born 1904) were the ...Show more
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read by Dawn French
19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here she describes the journey that would eve ...Show more
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying an ...Show more