Heiresses : The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress – glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating – from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. 'Life is less sad with money', said Emerald Cunard; Barbara Hutton was the 'Poor Little Rich Girl', but which is true? Laura Thompson explores the phenomen ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self - A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer 'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year 'Magical . . . Here we meet not just Mantel the Cromwell-catc ...Show more
Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION'S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLYBeing a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met the weirdest and most wonderful people who walk the Earth, seen the most bizarre and the most fantastic sig ...Show more
Peter Brock by Beverley Brock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This book provides unprecedented insight into the exceptional life of Peter Brock, on and off the road. It features personal photographs, memorabilia and reflections from the man himself, the Brock family and those who knew him best. Containing precious keepsakes from his private life and illustrious ca ...Show more
King Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed by Robert Jobson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'To Charles, being monarch has nothing to do with power - he believes his role is to lead. It is up to others whether they choose to follow.' When Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022, it sent shockwaves around the world. The longest reigning and oldest monarch, at ninety-six years o ...Show more
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...Show more
Her Finest Hour by Mcdonald Rothwell Gabrielle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Diana Rowden was a woman of the finest character. As an agent with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), she was dropped into France alongside Noor Inayat Khan and worked in the Resistance stronghold of the Franche-Comte department. Hunted at every turn by the Gestapo, Diana worked tirelessly for the ...Show more
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller and 2018 Book of the Year, This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back in ...Show more
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - a ...Show more
Undoctored - The story of a medic who ran out of patients by Adam Kay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century. It has been read by millions, translated into 37 languages, and adapted into a major BBC television series. But that was only part of the story. Now, Adam Kay returns and will onc ...Show more
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (PB) by Walter Isaacson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of its most practical political thinkers. America's first great publicist, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public and polished it ...Show more
God and the Angel: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's Tour De Force of Australia and New Zealand by Shiroma Perera-Nathan
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
God and the Angel is the first illustrated book on the 1948 Old Vic Tour of Australia and New Zealand, led by Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Written from an Australian perspective and utilising never-before published photos from the National Library and author's collection, God and the Angel dia ...Show more