Queens - Women Who Ruled, from Ancient Egypt to Buckingham Palace by Editors of Abbeville Editors of Abbeville Press
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Tiny Folio Ser.
This tiny yet majestic volume introduces some 250 queens from around the world--those who inherited the throne by birth or marriage, or who seized it for themselves. It begins with queens of the ancient world and ends with those ruling today, encompassing both household names, like Cleopatra VII and Eli ...Show more
Bohumil Hrabal : A full-length portrait by Pelan, Jiri, Short, David
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few have talked about. In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmani ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary by Anne Frank
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Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more
The Real Roald Dahl by Nadia Cohen
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Although his hilariously entertaining stories have touched the hearts of generations of children, there was much more to beloved author Roald Dahl than met the eye.His fascinating life began in Norway in 1916, and he became a highly rebellious teenager who delighted in defying authority before joining t ...Show more
Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more
Degas: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Katie Greenwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
The Biographic senes 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 Edgar ...Show more
Biographic - Dickens - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Michael Robb
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic Ser.
Most people know that Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era, whose works include David Copperfield and Great Expectations. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he invented more than 200 original words and phrases; that he always slept facing north, in an ef ...Show more
Beyond the Secret Garden: A Biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett by Ann Thwaite
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Most people have heard of Little Lord Fauntleroy, and of The Secret Garden. Yet few people realize that the same woman wrote both books, 25 years apart, and was considered, along with Henry James, one of the leading writers in America on the strength of the adult novels which made her name in the 1870s ...Show more
The Queen - 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II (HB) by Ian Lloyd
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I get enormously impressed when she walks into a room,' Princess Margaret once said of her sister. 'It's a kind of magic.' Prince William recalled, 'As I learned growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. What she says goes.'In the year of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, royal biographer Ian Lloyd ...Show more
Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire by Walter Marsh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start? In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputati ...Show more