Guiding Lights - The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women by Shona Riddell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most of their stories are little-known. Guiding Lights includes stories from around the world, such as the dramatic torching of Puysegur Point, one of New Zealand' ...Show more
A Singular Vision -The Life of Harry Seidler by Helen O'Neill
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Harry Seidler, a stylish, decisive and highly opinionated man, was a key figure in international modern architecture and in the establishment of post-war modern design in Australia. He emerged as Australia's preeminent architect, the man who effectively shaped the look of modern, urban Australia. While ...Show more
Mazin Grace by Dylan Coleman
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Pappa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn't help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues tha ...Show more
Fryderyk Chopin - A Life and Times by Alan Walker
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time. Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the mo ...Show more
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...Show more
Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo, Lynn Vincent
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe." -Ron Hall, coauthor of Same Kind of Different as Me "Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes, mommy, I remember," he said. "That's where the angels sang to me." When Colton Burpo ...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
Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country by Ryan Cropp
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could changeIn the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity ...Show more
Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more
Gladys: Staying Strong by Andrew L. Urban
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
ICAC’s witch hunt exposed: How ICAC unjustly pursued Gladys Berejiklian in Operation Keppel while targeting her then boyfriend Darryl Maguire MP, failing to recognise how state politics operates. Is anything permissible in the pursuit of political corruption and does the end justify the means? The NSW I ...Show more
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James Rebanks with a pretty decent camera and a pre-loaded Twitter app--the tools to share his way of life with the world. And what began as a tentative experim ...Show more
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize"Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read." --David A. Bell,The GuardianA new interpretation of the life of ...Show more