Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs by Tina Brown
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For the millions who adored the People's Princess, this lavish book celebrates Diana Spencer's life in pictures. Page after page of inside photos from the legendary National Geographic archives document the royal's most memorable moments in the spotlight; a luminous, personal remembrance by Diana friend ...Show more
Renoir's Dancer - The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager Suzanne began, in Montmartre, posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned paint ...Show more
Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worlds by Philippe Paquet
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An award-winning biography of one of the greats. Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1 ...Show more
Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work by Kitty Ferguson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given a couple of years to live. In January 2017 he celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday. This biography of the brilliant theoretical physicist and inspirational international celebrity, written with the help of Hawking himself and his close associates, now includes: his lea ...Show more
A Tangled Web: Mata Hari: Dancer, Courtesan, Spy by Mary Craig
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; a woman whose adult life was a fantastical web of lies, half-truths and magnetic sexuality that captivated men. Following the death of a young son and a bitt ...Show more
Winter: (Seasons Quartet 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Lars Lerin (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world loo ...Show more
Difficult Patient: the Woman with the World's Rarest Disease, the Doctors Who Left Her in Agony, and the Maverick Who Saved Her Life by Sue Curry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Imagine having a life-threatening illness only for doctors to think you?re faking it. Sue Currie suffers from a strain of porphyria so rare that she was only the 18th known case in the world. In 1991, the medicine she needed had a guaranteed Fed Ex delivery date of four days from Europe. But hers took f ...Show more
A Double Shot of Happiness by Judy Sharp
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tim Sharp and his magnificent creation, Laser Beak Man, are now major names in the world of international art. But the journey to this point has been an extraordinary one. When Judy Sharp took her three-year-old son Tim to a paediatric specialist, he was diagnosed with autism so severe that she was told ...Show more
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything by Elizabeth Gilbert
$20.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three thin ...Show more
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn n ...Show more
The House At Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography
Continuing the story of Susan Duncan's bestselling memoir, Salvation Creek, The House picks up after Bob and Susan marry and, two years later, move from her Tin Shed into his "pale yellow house on the high, rough hill", Tarrangaua, built for the iconic Australian poet, Dorothea Mackellar. Set against th ...Show more