The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch
$28.00 AUD
Category: General
For the four women included in this classic volume of biography, the wilder shores of love lay east of their native Europein Arabia, for Victorian Isabel Arundell, who married the defiantly unorthodox social outlaw and adventurer Burton of Arabia; in a harem, for Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, a convent girl a ...Show more
Borrowed Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox
$23.95 AUD
Category: General
One of the most powerful memoirs of recent times. Shortly after Paula Fox's birth in 1923, her hard-drinking Hollywood screenwriter father and her glamorous mother left her in a Manhattan orphanage. Rescued by her grandmother, she was passed from hand to hand, the kindness of strangers interrupted by b ...Show more
Captain Cook: Obsession and Betrayal in the New World by Vanessa Collingridge
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
A uniquely woven story encompassing three separate centuries and three different lives.Captain Cook, best known for his heroic voyages through the Pacific Ocean, is brought to life in vivid detail. We follow his humble beginnings as the son of a farm labourer to his convention shattering treatment of th ...Show more
Lucky by Alice Sebold
$22.95 AUD
Category: General
Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go. Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to hersel ...Show more
Mandela: A Biography by Martin Meredith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there. ...Show more
Marlene Dietrich : Life and Legend by Steven Bach
$33.00 AUD
$39.95 (17% off)
Category: Entertainment
From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth surrounding Marlene Dietrich in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on a singular star. Based on six years of research and hundreds of interviews - includ ...Show more
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
$14.95 AUD
Category: General
The well-loved story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. With a great cover by Quentin Blake as well as illustrations throughout. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles by Alan Marshall
$19.95 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
Alan Marshall's classic account of his childhood spent on crutches after contracting polio at the age of six is funny, tough, moving, profoundly Australian, yet completely universal - and inspirational in the best sense.
The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
$27.00 AUD
Category: General
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains i ...Show more
Marie Antoinette : The Journey by Antonia Fraser
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superbly researched ... the definitive work on the ill-fated queen' CATHOLI ...Show more
Mrs P's Journey - The remarkable story of the woman who created the A-Z map by Sarah Hartley
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
The entrepreneurial daughter of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, looking for ways of supporting herself, Phyllis Pearsall decided to remedy the unmapped muddle that was London in the mid-1930s. This biography tells of the woman who single-handedly created the publishing phenomenon of the London A-Z. P ...Show more