Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong by Juliet Macur
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall. In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there--talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the tr ...Show more
Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett by Victoria Schofield
$74.95 AUD
Category: Political
Historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902-1975) was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political observers. Through an ability to make important connections, he became an authority on Germany in the interwar years and was acquainted with all the German hierarchy, including Hitler and Hinde ...Show more
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia by David Hill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia ...Show more
You're Still Hot to Me by Jean Kittson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A fact-filled conversation starter on menopause by comedian and health campaigner Jean Kittson.When Jean Kittson hit menopause, she was amazed at what she didn't know. Given that 1.5 million Australian women are menopausal at any one time, why, she wondered, was menopause so little discussed and then on ...Show more
Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie by Jon Ronson
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all w ...Show more
Stoker Munro: Survivor by David Spiteri
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A simple, moving, vivid and heartbreaking account of one young sailor's eventful war. I heard the cries of scared men yelling they couldn't swim, but they jumped in regardless. I pulled off my new boots, dropped them on the deck and, clutching my tobacco tin, jumped overboard, feet first ...We were a go ...Show more
Spinifex Baby Finch Memoir Prize Winner 2014 by Karen Harrland
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Building on the success of Green Vanilla Tea comes the next winner of the annual Finch Memoir Prize. Finch Publishing is proud to support Australian writers through an annual prize for an unpublished memoir manuscript. The prize is $10,000 and publication. The 2014 title will be launched (with simultane ...Show more
Georgie and Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife: The Untold Story by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A biography of Borges, by his translator. Jorge Luis Borges, known as Georgie to his friends, married Elsa Astete Millan in 1967. Borges was sixty-eight years old at the time of the wedding; Elsa, a widow, with a son in his twenties, was eleven years younger. It proved to be a tempestuous and eventful m ...Show more
The Fictional Woman by Tara Moss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In the accessible style of Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Woman comes bestselling author Tara Moss's first exciting non-fiction book - a fascinating mix of memoir and social comment.Tara Moss has worn many labels in her time, including 'author', 'model', 'gold-digger', 'commentator', 'inspiration', 'dumb b ...Show more
Memoir of Jane Austen by AUSTEN-LEIGH James
$16.95 AUD
Category: Literary
This book includes an introduction by J.H. Stape, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill. Enormously influential on all later biographies of Jane Austen, the "Memoir of Jane Austen" (1869) by her nephew James Edward Austen - Leigh enjoys the privileged perspective of first-hand knowledge. It displays the de ...Show more
Kylie by Sean Smith
$30.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
KYLIE is a major new biography, telling the life story of Kylie Minogue, a true pop icon, now back on our screens in hit show The Voice. Everybody loves Kylie. No popular figure in modern culture deserves the description 'iconic' more than the star whose name alone evokes more than twenty-five years of ...Show more
Million Dollar Arm: Sometimes to Win, You Have to Change the Game by J. B. Bernstein
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
JB Bernstein seemed to have it all. One of the top sports agents in the US, he worked hard and enjoyed the bachelor lifestyle to the full. But he hankered for more, and when he set himself a challenge - to unearth someone in India capable of becoming a pro baseball pitcher - most people thought he was m ...Show more