Biographic: Cezanne: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Katie Greenwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
The Biographic senes presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Paul C ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Discovering Robin Hood - The Life of Joseph Ritson - Gentleman, Scholar and Revolutionary by Stephen Basdeo
$75.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The name of Joseph Ritson, born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1752, will be familiar to very few people. The name of Robin Hood is known the world over. Yet it was Ritson whose research in the late eighteenth century ensured the survival of the Robin Hood legend. He traveled all over the country looking for an ...Show more
Hollywood's Dark History - Silver Screen Scandals by Matt MacNabb
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The dawning of the nineteenth century brought with it a new era for entertainment. Vaudeville was the preferred form of entertainment, until the popularization of the silent film. This new medium proved to be a draw for many of the stars of the Vaudevillian stage and soon they migrated to the exciting p ...Show more
This Is the Fire - What I Say to My Friends about Racism by Don Lemon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this 'vital book for these times' (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only B ...Show more
Joan Crawford - The Essential Biography by Lawrence J. Quirk; William Schoell
$62.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her portrayals of working-class shop girls in the Depression thirties, to ...Show more
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying an ...Show more
Finding My Feet: My Story by Hanny Allston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
‘In nothingness, there are only the heartbeats of hope. I vow to myself that I will clamber out of this hole. I will find my feet and flourish.’At 19, Hanny Allston faces a ‘perfect storm’. Her father is terrifyingly ill. Besides his hospital bed, she teeters painfully on crutches after surgery that cou ...Show more
Beirut 2020: The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal by Charif Majdalani
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Charif Majdalani begins to walk the streets of his city, and to write down what he sees, the first hints of unrest within a vibrant culture creep to the fore. 'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital ... has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani i ...Show more
Tell Her She's Dreamin': A memoir for ambitious girls by Simone Amelia Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more. Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a sch ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
Smiling at Shadows by Junee Waites
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As a baby, Dane Waites didn't smile at his parents, or meet their gaze - Dane smiled at the shadows of moving trees. It was when Dane was five years old that his mother Junee recognised that her son had autism. This book reveals the joys and heartache of bringing Dane up.