Can You Hear the Sea?: My Grandmother's Story by Brenda Niall
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Brenda Niall has turned her biographer's eye to a personal subject - her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was w ...Show more
The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris by Tom Sancton
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman, and the tenth wealthiest in the entire world. But at 93, she's embroiled in incredible controversy - controversy so great it almost took down the French government. It's all become Europe's biggest scandal in years, uncovering a shadowy corporate history ...Show more
Sticky Fingers - The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine by Joe Hagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Dwight Garner)A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Janet Maslin)A New York Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year A USA Today Top 10 Book We Loved Reading in 2017An Amazon Top 100 Book of 2017 An Amazon Best Biography of 2017 An Amazon Best History Book of 2017 A ...Show more
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992 by Tina Brown
$55.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoma ...Show more
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon
$40.00 AUD
Category: General
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH IN BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRSA new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in ...Show more
Prairie Fires - The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearThe first comprehensive historical b ...Show more
Outsiders - Five Women Writers who Changed the World - Virginia Woolf, Olive Schreiner,George Eliot, Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley by Lyndall Gordon
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the ...Show more
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
Nadia Murad has put a human face on one of the world's most complicated and intractable conflicts * Sunday Business Post * This devastating memoir unflinchingly recounts her experiences and questions the complicity of witnesses who acquiesced in the suffering of others * New Yorker * Courageous . . . An ...Show more
Burke & Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.' MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first ...Show more
A Tumultuous Life - SIGNED by Brian Burke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
A Tumultuous Life is my story of my interesting, colourful and controversial life starting in the political cauldron of the Split tearing apart the Australian Labor Party in the 1950s, when I was a young child loving, talking and listening to my father, Tom, who taught me so much about politics and life ...Show more
The Angels by Bob Yates
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The Angels roared out of the 1970s with multi-platinum albums, hits and record-breaking tours. The band was formed by the trio of Rick and John Brewster and Doc Neeson. Songs from their classic albums are as pertinent today as they were when they were released, thanks to John and Rick, the genius songwr ...Show more
Citizen Cohn by Nicholas von Hoffman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Based on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends, this biography offers a comprehensive portrait of Roy Cohn, his ideological passions, personal life, and patterns of power and money.