Harry & Meghan: A Royal Engagement by Halima Sadat
$12.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Pitkin Royal Collection
A ROYAL ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCED. At 10am on 27th November 2017, Clarence House announced the exciting news that Prince Harry is engaged to Meghan Markle, with a wedding planned for spring 2018. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh "are delighted for the couple". The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge "are ver ...Show more
Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes by Diane Atkinson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Almost one hundred years ago, British women led a hard-fought campaign to gain the right to vote--and this is their story. Britain's women's suffrage campaign began in the nineteenth century, but the twentieth century ushered in a more militant campaign. On June 30, 1908, two schoolteachers broke windo ...Show more
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Alfred Deakin - scholar, spiritualist, prime minister - was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves together his public, private and family lives. She brings out from behind the ...Show more
Tom Cruise - An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton
$41.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Andrew Morton uncovers the true story of the biggest celebrity of our age. Everyone knows Tom Cruise---or at least what he wants us to know. We know that he overcame a difficult childhood to star in astonishing array of blockbusters: Top Gun, Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July, A Few Good Men, Intervi ...Show more
Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From a Life by Michael Katakis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Beautifully designed, intimate and illuminating, this is the story of American icon Ernest Hemingway's life through the documents, photographs, and miscellany he kept, compiled by the steward of the Hemingway estate and featuring contributions by his son and grandson.For many people, Ernest Hemingway re ...Show more
The King's War - A Commoner, the Crown and Britain's Greatest Struggle by Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between ...Show more
The White Darkness by David Grann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z'A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration' Sunday Times on The Lost City of Z'Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones' Daily Telegr ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
$69.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, such that in the 1530s he was effectively running the ...Show more
Fryderyk Chopin - A Life and Times by Alan Walker
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time. Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the mo ...Show more
Angels of Mercy by Lynette Ramsay Silver
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Angels of Mercy: Far West & Far East follows the gripping stories of two different Australiannursing sisters, who overcame the challenging adversities of two very different circumstances.In the 1930s, Marjorie Silver was employed by The Far West Childrens Health Scheme andbecame their first permanen ...Show more
Life and Adventures of William Buckley by John Morgan; The Perfect The Perfect Library (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"Life and Adventures of William Buckley" from John Morgan. American surgeon, Physician-in-Chief of the American Army (1735-1789).