Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas by LYNDSY SPENCE
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Maria Callas (1923-1977) was the greatest opera diva of all time with a career that remains unmatched by any prima donna. Much of her life was overshadowed by her fiery relationship with Aristotle Onassis, who broke her heart when he left her for Jacqueline Kennedy, and her reputation was marred by lege ...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
Riding this Road: My Story... Travelling with Slim Dusty, Performing, Singing and Song Writing by Joy McKean
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Award-winning songwriter and musician Joy McKean wrote many of her husband Slim Dusty's most famous songs and won the first Golden Guitar awarded at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Now, for the first time, Joy explores her own life from childhood to the present, fifty years of marriage to Slim, son ...Show more
Rembrandt: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Sophie Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
The Biographic series 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 Rembr ...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
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age o ...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.
Elizabeth Revealed - 500 Facts about the Queen and Her World by Lucinda Hawksley
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
- A lively and affectionate celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's long and eventful life - Archive images and new photography combine to create a beautiful visual record of her reign - A fascinating glimpse into the private life of the monarchy - The wealth of information is presented in the successful, b ...Show more
Austen Great Lives in Graphic Form by Sophie Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quick-fire journey through truths and trivia that is the most entertaining way to follow in the footsteps of the men and women whose ...Show more