Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often insp ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
French Children Don't Throw Food: The hilarious NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER changing parents' lives by Pamela Druckerman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"The book everyone is talking about- how the French manage to raise well-behaved children, and have a life! ho hasn t noticed how well-behaved French children are, compared to our own? How come French babies sleep through the night? Why do French children happily eat what is put in front of them? How ca ...Show more
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the "New York Times" bestseller. 'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from the waters of Key West to the ...Show more
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A Caro
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Years of Lyndon Johnson
A publishing event: the fourth volume in Robert Caro's monumental biography, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the best-selling and prize-winning "The Path to Power, Means of Ascent, "and "Master of the Senate." "The Passage of Power" follows Johnson through both the most frustrating and the ...Show more
Free the Bears by Mary Hutton and Julie Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1993, Perth grandmother Mary Hutton started a petition at her local shopping mall after seeing a news story about the extraction of bile from a caged and traumatised Asiatic Black Bear. Upon learning that thousands of bears were being held in these horrifying conditions throughout Asia, Mary was comp ...Show more
Whatever's Going to Become of Us?: The Story of One Boy's Struggle from Poverty to Success by Terry Hopley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
A rags-to-riches story of a young man named Terry who began life on a council estate in Dagenham, Essex. His friends in that impoverished neighbourhood included George Carey (who went on to become Lord Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury), Dudley Moore (destined for Hollywood stardom), and the famous Britis ...Show more
Nene (revised Edition) by Peter Fitzsimons
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It's 1987. Big hair and shoulderpads rule. Flamboyant deputy editor Nene King storms out of NEW IDEA to become editor of Kerry Packer's WOMAN'S DAY, determined to overthrow NEW IDEA and her former boss Dulcie Boling's supremacy. What followed was the rise of celebrity and gossip-fuelled journalism, a wo ...Show more
Carve Her Name with Pride by R. J. Minney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo.
My Wild Ride: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman's Faith and Determination Helped Her Overcome Life's Greatest Odds by Fiona Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Fiona Johnson was born a city girl. But she was always drawn to horses. Aged 10 she saved all of her pocket money to buy a saddle at a garage sale. Eventually, after months of nagging her parents, she persuaded them to buy her a horse to go with the saddle. And so began a life-long love affair with hors ...Show more
Pray For Me by Robert Moynihan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Life and Spiritual Vision of Pope Francis Benedict XVI's retirement made news around the world, and changed the dynamics of the Catholic Church. The new pope, Francis I, has already brought a breath of fresh air into the papacy, the Vatican and the faith which has been beset by scandal in recent ti ...Show more
Boy Lost A Family Memoir by Kristina Olsson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms at a train station in the hot summer of 1950. She was young and frightened, trying to escape a brutal marriage, and in no way prepared for this final blow. Yvonne would not see her son again for nearly 40 years. Kris ...Show more