Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
Biographic - Hemingway - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Jamie Pumfrey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic Ser.
Most people know that Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was a towering figure of American literature, a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner and author of novels including The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was an ambulance driver in the World War I and suffe ...Show more
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: National Trust History & Heritage
To this day, Beatrix Potter's tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A talented artist who became a scientific expert ...Show more
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink by William Perry
$50.95 AUD
Category: Biography
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. ...Show more
Valiant for Truth : The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant by Peter Brune; Neil McDonald
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amp ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have said so. What emerged for me was a brave, original wo ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
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Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
After twenty-five years of "sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine", chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he first experiences the real delights o ...Show more
Through the Storm by SPEARS Lynne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
We all want our children to succeed. What happens when they do? Britney Spears wanted to sing ever since she was a little girl. But the years of sacrifices, auditions, performances, albums, fame, and paparazzi left the little Louisiana family swept up and spun around, and nothing turned out the way any ...Show more
Living the Good Life : How one family changed their world from their own backyard by Linda Cockburn
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This book presents an engaging and insightful look at one family's attempts to change their consumer led lifestyle. It includes tips, anecdotes and recipes for the environmentally conscious. In the spirit of BBC2's "It's Not Easy Being Green", here is a winning account of one family's quest to begin cha ...Show more
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia by David Hill
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia ...Show more