What If...? by Shirley MacLaine
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a wealth of subjects from the mundane to the esoteric in this all-new collection of musings that begin with two simple words: What if⦠What if hope is the most dangerous emotion? What if a frog had wings? (Answer: He wouldn't bump hi ...Show more
Colette's France - Her Life and Loves by Jane Gilmour
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"French author Colette has a special place in French literary history, her life and writing novels Cheri, Gigli and the Claudine series spanned the renowned artistic period of Belle Epoque Paris, the art scene in the South of France and war time Paris. Her companions were all the great French writers, a ...Show more
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery and Arsenic by Kate Colquhoun
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. 'The Maybrick Mystery' had all the makings of a sensation: a pretty, flirtatious young girl; resentful, gossiping servants; rum ...Show more
When Fraser Met Billy by Louise Booth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Billy the cat was rescued from an abandoned house. Fraser was a two-year-old autistic child with a multitude of problems when he first met Billy at the cat protection shelter. Billy purred, laid his paws across Fraser and they have been inseparable ever since. Slowly but surely Billy has transformed Fra ...Show more
Absent Without Leave by Paul Livingston
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Absent Without Leave follows three wide-eyed twenty-one-year olds from their enlistment at the Sydney showground in 1940 to disembarking in the Middle East before being plunged into jungle warfare in the Asia Pacific. Private Stanley Livingston and his two best mates, Roy Lonsdale and Gordon Oxman, woul ...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
You Only Get One Innings by Barry Nicholls
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As a young boy growing up in the 1970s in the suburbs of Adelaide, Barry Nicholls was negotiating the dreadful haircuts and unrequited infatuations of adolescence, while his heroes, Chappell, Lillee and Thommo, were creating cricket history against Pommie champions like Boycott and Botham. Like thousand ...Show more
The Nullarbor Kid by Ray Gilleland
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
He was a pioneer trucker in postwar Australia - a time when outback roads were little more than corrugated dirt goat tracks. This is a story of vast distances, ill-equipped machines, heat and dust, humour and mateship. If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with ...Show more
Searching for the Beaumont Children by Whiticker
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
On Wednesday, 26 January 1966 "Australia Day" the three Beaumont children left their home in the Adelaide suburb of Somerton Park for a morning at the beach. By the end of the day, the worst fears of every Australian parent were realised when Jane, aged 9, her sister Arnna, 7, and their four-year-old br ...Show more
The House at Anzac Parade by Victor a Kline
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
As a child Victor Kline was sexually, physically and emotionally abused by his mother. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, he went on to lead a diverse, exciting and often dangerous life. From medical guinea pig to Federal prosecutor to outback barrister. From provincial France to the highlands of N ...Show more
One Chance by Paul Potts
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is a memoir by international opera star Paul Potts, winner of the first season of "Britain's Got Talent" and subject of a major Weinstein Company biopic coming to theaters in fall 2013. It includes an introduction/preface by Simon Cowell. Most people only dream about becoming a famous superstar - b ...Show more
My Story by Peter Cosgrove
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'This book is my personal story, from boyhood to battlefield and beyond, written in my own words, reflecting on my life.' In 1999, General Peter Cosgrove was thrust into the full glare of the nation's spotlight following his appointment as Commander of the International Forces in East Timor (INTERFET). ...Show more