One Leg Over by Robin Dalton
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
bioAt the age of ninety-six Robin Dalton looks back on a rich and colourful life, and especially her sumptuous love life. This is a story of romance and love like no other. After marrying young and disastrously, society belle Robin Eakin divorces. The event makes the front page of the Sydney newspapers, ...Show more
Autobiography by Bertrand Russell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Routledge Classics
Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest philosophers and most complex and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Here, in this frank, humorous and decidedly charming autobiography, Russell offers readers the story of his life – introducing the people, events and influences that shaped th ...Show more
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser.
Fascinating biography of the iconoclastic English woman who in Baghdad in 1921 drew the boundaries of the country that became Iraq. Gertrude Bell was one of Oxford University's early female students, an archaelogist, a linguist, photographer, inveterate writer of letters and the greatest woman mountaine ...Show more
Duff Cooper Diaries by John Julius Norwich
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Now in paperback, the highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite.Duff Cooper was a first-rate witness of just about every significant event from 1914 to 1950. His diary includes some magnificent set pieces - as a young soldier at the end of WWI, as a politician during the Genera ...Show more
The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith
$60.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof. Prompted by interes ...Show more
Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows by Isabel Vincent
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Isabel Vincent has written a riveting account of the life of the international socialite and billionairess Lily Safra, allegedly the third richest woman in the world.... It s a very good read. Dominick Dunne In this absorbing biography of Brazilian-born philanthropist and socialite Lily Safra the first ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx by Ruth Park
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The second volume of Ruth Park's autobiography is the tender portrait of her partnership with D'Arcy Niland in life and work. They were two talented, volatile people who shared dreams, disappointments and triumphs.
A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Written as vividly as any of her novels, Ruth Park's autobiography is a moving, passionate, often funny account of the people and places which influenced her early years. Her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand fed her fertile imagination; her convent education encouraged her love of wo ...Show more
Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises by Lesley M M Blume
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"Brimming, addictive . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white." Vanity Fair Captivating, smartly written, and provocative. Glamour "Masterfully told . . . Deeply evocative and perceptive, and every page has a Hemingway-like ring of unvarnished truth." Christia ...Show more
A Beautiful Game by Mark Nicholas
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Mark Nicholas, anchor for Channel 9's Test commentary team in Australia and Channel 5's Cricket on Five show in the UK, has a unique knowledge and perspective on the world game of cricket. As both a former player and now a professional observer and commentator on the game he knows all the key figures in ...Show more
Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Mindy Kaling has found herself at a turning point. So in Why Not Me?, she shares her ongoing journey to find fulfilment and adventure in her adult life, be it falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in unlikely places, or attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any b ...Show more
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?: (And other concerns) by Mindy Kaling
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
âe~Where have you been all our lives, Mindy?âe(tm) Glamour Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: comedienne, actress, obedient child of immigrant professionals and, now, writer. With a blend of witty confessions and unscientific observations, Mindy writes about everything from being a timid young chubster ...Show more