Prince William: Born to be King by Penny Junor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A special edition published in August to coincide with the birth of the next heir to the throne. His face is recognized the world over and his story is well known. But what is Prince William really like? As Diana's eldest son he was her playmate and her confidant. While the tabloids eagerly lapped up th ...Show more
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Someone is Hiding Something - What Happened to Flight Mh370? by Richard Belzer; David Wayne; George Noory
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A year after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, no sign of the plane has been found - no debris, no bodies and no black box. Richard Belzer, George Noory and David Wayne want to know why. As well as scrutinizing the theories for the disappearance put forward by governments and circulatin ...Show more
Abyssinian Contortionist : Hope, Friendship and Other Circus Acts by David Carlin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sosina Wogayehu learnt to do flips and splits at the age of six, sitting on the floor of her parents' lounge room in Addis Ababa, watching a German variety show on the only television channel in the land. She sold cigarettes on the streets at the age of eight, and played table soccer with her friends wh ...Show more
Changing Chapters: A Sister's Story by Clara Jobson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Author Clara Jobson's childhood was steeped in violence, rape, and molestation. She and her brother, James, witnessed their father beating their mother regularly. The two children lived in a world of fear and deceit. "Changing Chapters" is a story of surviving a childhood from hell. It's about witnessin ...Show more
Australian Catholic Lives by Ed Campion
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In Australian Catholic Lives, Edmund Campion tells the stories of people from Australia's Catholic history. It is history through story rather than dates and facts, a history of people in the pews rather than popes and bishops - though there are some bishops here. Edmund Campion has been writing these ...Show more
Australian Farming Families by Deb Hunt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'This is a book about the human aspects of life on the land - the stories of success and failure, life and love, of hardship and celebration - and the passion and gritty determination that characterised every family I interviewed.'Author Deb Hunt sets out to discover what makes what makes Australian far ...Show more
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. 'A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival, no ...Show more
Leila's Secret by Kooshyar Karimi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In fundamentalist Iran, new life sometimes means certain death. When Leila comes to see Doctor Karimi, both are in danger. Born in a slum to a Muslim father and a Jewish mother, Kooshyar Karimi has transformed himself into a successful doctor, an award-winning writer, and an adoring father. His could be ...Show more
Malcolm Fraser the Political Memoirs by Malcolm/Simons, Margaret Fraser
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this part memoir and part authorised biography, Malcolm Fraser talks about his time in public life. 'The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.'andmdash;Malcolm Fras ...Show more
Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival by Anna Bligh
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An uplifting memoir of resilience and strength from ex-Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh. Anna Bligh knows something about hard knocks and high walls. She was raised by a single mother in the working class Gold Coast, a young girl with a soon-to-be-estranged dad who struggled with alcoholism. She spent ...Show more
Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo by Victoria Tennant
$101.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In the 1930s and ’40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an embodiment of feminine grace and sophistication. This sumptuous, illustrated history tells the story of th ...Show more