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Flush by Virginia Woolf
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Virginia Woolf's humorous biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel is charming yet also radical. A work of sensuous imagination, it opens up a range of questions about class, society, and cultural attitudes which are woven throughout the whole of Woolf's writing. We are delighted to publish th ...Show more
Frida Kahlo - Lives of the Artists series by Hettie Judah
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's book character, textile print, phone cover, and the inspiration for everything from cocktails to fashion shoots. But it is more difficult to get a clear vision of this bold and brillia ...Show more
George Johnston - A Biography by Garry Kinnane
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Australian Lives Ser.
"The life of George Johnston, author of the best-selling My Brother Jack,was in many ways symbolic of Australian post-war cultural life. He was a complex character, dogged by feelings of mediocrity, betrayal and failure that he ultimately transformed though the writing of his brilliant trilogy My Brothe ...Show more
Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with ...Show more
Irving Berlin - New York Genius by James Kaplan
$34.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A fast-moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called--by George Gershwin, among others--the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music," legendary com ...Show more
Keith Haring by Simon Doonan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational story. Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for t ...Show more
Lives Of The Artists (Volume I) by Giorgio Vasari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first dra ...Show more
Mark Twain by Kevin J. Hayes
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born November 30, 1835, in Monroe County, Missouri, was never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story. An indefatigable inventor of tall tales, Mark Twain was a natural-born storyteller who freely adapted the incidents of his life and the tales he heard as a youth t ...Show more
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith & Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber An authority on the twentieth‑century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Th ...Show more
Persons of Interest: An Intimate Account of Cecily and John Burton by Pamela Burton, Meredith Edwards
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: ANU Lives Series in Biography Ser.
A world in upheaval; two lives lived under stress ... This story is set in the social and political landscape of pre- and post-World War II. It tells two vastly different tales of Cecily and John's lives in Australia and overseas, as nations clashed, and governments and international organisations trie ...Show more
Railway Cat (The Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat) by Philip Ardagh
$13.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: The\Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat Ser.
Meet Furry Purry Beancat - one extraordinary cat with nine extraordinary lives! Just like every other cat, Furry Purry Beancat loves a catnap. But unlike other cats, when Beancat wakes she finds herself about to embark on a whole new adventure! All aboard! There's a mystery on the railway! Join Beancat ...Show more
Sebastian Lives in a Hat 30th Anniversay Edition (PB) by Thelma Catterwell
$17.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Sebastian Lives in a Hat
Sebastian is a pink fuzzy baby wombat. He doesn't have a mother to look after him, and so he lives in a woolly hat and is looked after by a human family. When he's big he might not need his hat any more, but for now it keeps him safe and warm.