Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades, including twenty-three years as cohost of Siskel & Ebert at the Movies. ...Show more
Captain Paul Watson: Interview with a Pirate by Paul Watson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The behind-the-scenes true story of Paul Watson, the world's most famous eco-pirate and marine animal rights activist. Paul Watson became an animal rights activist at the young age of eleven, in 1962. When trappers killed a beaver that Paul had befriended, he systematically and efficiently located and d ...Show more
The Shape of the Eye: A Memoir by George Estreich
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"[An] elegantly written, unsentimental memoir."--PEOPLE MAGAZINE [PEOPLE's Pick of the Week] When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance presents a puzzle: does the shape of her eyes indicate Down syndrome, or the fact that she has a Japanese grandmother? In this powerful memoir, George Estreich, a poe ...Show more
His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he's applied his fascination with that stage of life to his own, from his bizarre first memories to the embarrassments of adolescence. For all his working life Goldsworthy has been both ...Show more
The Bush Orphanage by John Hawkins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Bush Orphanage is a story in two parts. Part I is the personal life story of John Hawkins, who as a seven-year-old British orphan, was sent to Australia as part of the British Child Migration Scheme, despite having a loving foster family in London who desperately wanted to adopt him. In Australia, J ...Show more
Left for Dead: A True Story of Resilience and Courage by Sue Williams
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Category: Biography
Samantha Barlow, policewoman and mother of two young children, was brutally attacked with a brick on her way to work at Kings Cross Police Station and left for dead. Her injuries were horrendous, and she came close to death.
On Shakespeare by John Bell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'So I'm sitting here backstage, waiting for my entrance, caked in fake blood and taking part in a play that is brutal, nihilistic and offensive according to all criteria of 'good taste'. And it's thrilling.' Did Shakespeare really write all those plays? Why do you do Shakespeare in modern dress? How do ...Show more
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes by Steven Nadler
$44.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait of a middle-aged man with long dark hair, a mustache, and heavy-lidded eyes, and he is dressed in the starched white collar and black coat of the typical Dutch burgher. The painting is now the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French phil ...Show more
Karl Marx : A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
$42.95 AUD
Category: Biography
For nearly a century, Karl Marx has been imprisoned by "isms", misinterpreted through the writings of Engels and the totalitarian aspirations of Lenin and Stalin. Challenging this antiquated portrait, Jonathan Sperber demonstrates that Marx had more in common with Robespierre than with twentieth-century ...Show more
Her: A Memoir by Christa Parravani
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A blazingly passionate memoir of identity and love: when a charismatic and troubled young woman dies tragically, her identical twin must struggle to survive Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, were linked by a bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood, beyond friendship. Raised u ...Show more
One Leg Too Few by William Cook
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"One Leg Too Few" will feature an extensive range of fresh interviews, previously unpublished archive material and a wealth of information about the most creative (and explosive) double act that British comedy has ever produced. "One Leg Too Few" is a book about an extraordinary relationship: a friendsh ...Show more
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family by Shelley Emling
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Published to widespread acclaim, in "Marie Curie and Her Daughters," science writer Shelley Emling shows that far from a shy introvert toiling away in her laboratory, the famed scientist and two-time Nobel prize winner was nothing short of an iconoclast. Emling draws on personal letters released by Curi ...Show more