Lara: The Untold Love by Anna Pasternak
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya - the true tragedy behind 'Dr Zhivago'. 'Doctor Zhivago' has sold in its millions yet the true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored. Pasternak would often say 'Lara exists, go and meet her', direct ...Show more
Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This ...Show more
Bolshoi Confidential - Secrets of the Russian Ballet - from the Rule of the Tsars to the Age of Putin by Simon Morrison
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia's most illustrious institutions into scandal. Under Vladimir Putin, the Bolshoi Theatre has been called on ...Show more
Billy: My Life As A Teenage POW by Lynette Silver, Billy Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Billys Story: My Life as a Teenage POW has been compiled from a personal chronicle penned by Billy Young throughout the 1970s, supplemented by hundreds of conversations that Lynette and Billy have shared in the course of their close friendship spanning more than two decades. It is the only first-hand pu ...Show more
Becoming a Son by David Labrava
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Becoming a Son is the first book written by David Labrava. David writes from life experience as he has lived more lives than most people ever will, and he did it all over the globe. David is an accomplished Glass artist, Tattoo artist, Five Diploma Harley Davidson Motorcycle Mechanic, Producer, Director ...Show more
Cynthia Nolan: A Biography by M. E. McGuire
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This biography studies the making of writer and artist's wife Cynthia Nolan, born Violet Cynthia Reed. She was almost forty when she married Sidney Nolan and consigned her past to obscurity. It tracks this brave, elusive figure through historical sources, letters, her novels, the recollections of friend ...Show more
My Life in the Ragtrade: An Honest Snapshot of the Golden Days of the Australian Clothing Trade by Fred Wilkinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
My Life in the Ragtrade is the story of the famous Australian brand names, many developed from humble beginnings yet made in clothing factories employing thousands of people, and the grand retail stores and clothing shops that stocked those brands. In My Life in the Ragtrade, author Fred Wilkinson takes ...Show more
Chasing Shadows: The Life & Death of Peter Roebuck by Tim Lane; Elliot Cartledge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Part biography, part personal reflection and part investigation, Chasing Shadows: The Life And Death Of Peter Roebuck will celebrate Roebuck's immense achievements as a player, captain, writer, broadcaster and philanthropist, but not shy away from the controversies that plagued his life and hang so dark ...Show more
Two Paths: America Divided or United by John Kasich
$47.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Ohio governor John Kasich ran for president, his powerful message of hope and togetherness struck a chord with American voters. In Two Paths: America Divided or United, he carries that message forward by reflecting on the tumultuous 2016 campaign, sharing his concerns for America and his hopes for ...Show more
The Master: The John Fahey Story by John Fahey
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the story of John Fahey, well known throughout Australia as The Master, an acknowledgement of his consummate horsemanship. Champion Gentleman Rider in all of Australia's biggest Royal Shows, he is not only an Olympian show jumper but also world champion at Camp Drafting. In addition, he excelled ...Show more
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Richard Nixon opens with Navy lieutenant 'Nick' Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. Four ye ...Show more
The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon by Cherry Lewis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after. In 1817 - exactly 200 years ago - James Parkinson (1755-1824) defined the disease so precisely that we still diagnose it t ...Show more