Bali: 50 Years of Exploitation, Corruption, Chaos, Free Love, Great Surf and High Times Under the Banyan Trees by Phil Jarratt
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Phil Jarrett draws upon first-hand experience and extensive research to provide a lively and entertaining narrative of the social, cultural and political history of an island paradise close to Australians' hearts. Heaven and Hell details the mythology and spirituality of Bali as well as the island's tum ...Show more
I am the Voice Left from Drinking by FREUD JAMES
$30.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Excessive, outrageous, hilarious - the tell-all bio from one of the princes of 80s pop. I Am the Voice Left from Drinking is the no-holds-barred, brutally honest journey of an artist who made it from the suburbs to the top of the pop music charts, graced the covers of every music mag, hosted tV shows, l ...Show more
I am the Voice Left from Rehab by James Freud
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The life of a rock star to the brink of death and back - and there again - the most shockingly honest account of alcoholism you will ever read. 'I have performed for royalty, dined with Superman, stood on a stage before 100,000 people and graced the covers of magazines. I lived an enchanted lifestyle. I ...Show more
Trapped by Marcus and Julie Lee
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
How Australian Marcus Lee and his wife, Julie, survived wrongful imprisonment, house arrest and five years of trials and tribulations in Dubai. In 2006 Marcus Lee moved to Dubai with his wife, Julie, to take up his dream job working for Nakheel, the emirate's largest property developer. Everything went ...Show more
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan
$43.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In this fresh and illuminating biography, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams--the little-known and much-misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams--and reveals how Adams' inspiring, progressive vision guided his life a ...Show more
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison was a true genius of the early republic. Outwardly reserved, Madison was the intellectual driving force behind the Constitution a ...Show more
Elsa Schiaparelli A Biography by Meryle Secrest
$50.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time. Her style was a social revolution through clothing-luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy; synonymous with fashion innovation and chicesse. She was auda ...Show more
Wagstaff - Before and After Mapplethorpe A Biography by Philip Gefter
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable and largely ove ...Show more
Lists of Note by Shaun Usher
$59.99 AUD
Category: General
Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Just as he d ...Show more
Never, Um, Ever Ending Story by Molly Meldrum
$39.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In 1974 Ian 'Molly' Meldrum was working as a record producer and music journalist when he was offered the chance to host a new music show called 'Countdown'. It was a show that would run for the next thirteen years and become one of the most-loved and most-watched programs on Australian television. It a ...Show more
Chasing Lost Time - The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator by Jean Findlay
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The first ever biography of the man who made Proust a legend, his celebrated translator, C.K. Scott Moncrieff. C.K. Scott Moncrieff's translation of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu was first published in English in 1922. It was hailed as 'nothing less than extraordinary' and was the beginnin ...Show more
The Astaires: Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley
$23.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Before "Fred and Ginger," there was "Fred and Adele," a show-business partnership and cultural sensation like no other. In our celebrity-saturated era, it's hard to comprehend what a genuine phenomenon these two siblings from Omaha were. At the height of their success in the mid-1920s, the Astaires seem ...Show more