Beatrix Potter: The Pitkin Guide to by Annie Bullen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Pitkin Biographical S.
This fascinating biography introduces readers and visitors to the world of this remarkable author.
Behind Palace Doors by Colin Burgess
$18.98 AUD
Category: Biography
The most senior and best respected member of any royal family in history, she did not give one media interview in her 101 years. This affectionate and often hilarious glimpse into her world by her former equerry reveals what life was really like living with the most private of all the royals. In this sh ...Show more
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE 2012 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2012 US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving to ...Show more
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A raw, vivid and ultimately uplifting memoir of addiction and recovery from the Salon.com personal essays editor, in the spirit of Drinking: A Love Story and Wild. For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was 'the gasoline of all adventure'. She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly st ...Show more
Blood Mystic by George Gittoes
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
George Gittoes defies categorisation as his life defies belief. One thing is certain: Gittoes is the greatest Australian hero working today and his epic story must be told Equal parts artist and warrior, George is world-famous for waging war on war with art, circus, photography and film. "Soldiers die f ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardcover) by Tim Winton
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Eclectic and impassioned, a collection that affirms the power of the written word' ObserverThe Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man. In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how moments from his childhood and life growing up have shaped ...Show more
By Your Side: A True Story of Courage, Love and Loss by Jason Carrasco
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I'll be waiting for you, and when we beat this thing we are going to celebrate.' At 15 Cass Nascimento was so beautiful she left boys tongue-tied. But her beauty was more than skin-deep: she was a sunny, generous, kind force of nature. When Jason Carrasco was diagnosed with fast-spreading cancer at age ...Show more
Can I Let You Go?: A Heartbreaking True Story of Love, Loss and Moving on by Cathy Glass
$16.98 AUD
Category: Biography
Can I Let You Go? is the true story of Faye, a wonderful young woman who may never be able to parent her unborn child. Faye is 24, pregnant, and has learning difficulties as a result of her mother's alcoholism. Faye is gentle, childlike and vulnerable, and normally lives with her grandparents, both of ...Show more
Celeste: The Parisian Courtesan Who Became a Countess and Bestselling Writer by Roland Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Courtesan, countess, bestselling author - the tempestuous true story of a woman far ahead of her time ...The true story of the Countess Celeste de Chabrillan is a rich and tempestuous tale of an extraordinary woman. Born in the gutters of Paris in 1824, Celeste made her name as a dancer in the Parisian ...Show more
Churchill by Roy Jenkins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his personal writing and cautioning against a powerful Soviet Russia in his l ...Show more
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep w ...Show more
Coming To My Senses by Alice Waters
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The long-awaited memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. In Coming to My Senses Alice retraces the events that led her to 1517 Shattuck Avenue an ...Show more