Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers by Helen Vines
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Autobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her death in 1974. Was her writing the truth, or false, or somewhere in between? What did it mean when she described her father as ‘evil’ and ‘perverted’ in her first published novel The Pea Pi ...Show more
Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud by Mehreen Faruqi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A no-holds-barred memoir and outspoken manifesto from Senator, role model, and modern Australian hero Mehreen Faruqi. Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud is a no-holds-barred memoir and manifesto from outspoken senator, trouble¬maker and multicultural icon Mehreen Faruqi. As the first Muslim woman in any ...Show more
Killing Time: Short stories from the long road home by Jimmy Barnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul legend in Mem ...Show more
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, Elizabeth Barrett Browning famously wrote, shortly before defying her family by running away to Italy with Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure, whose extraordinary life is a study in self-invention. Born into an age when w ...Show more
UGLY: A Bikie's Life by Phil "Ugly" Mawson with Paul Fenech
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A fighter, a protector, a figurehead, a jailbird, a son, husband and father, who started a brotherhood and has stood by it ever sinceWe were about to get into it when the other soldiers pulled us apart. I didn't care about squaring off against a Major, I was going home. I didn't really even know what I ...Show more
Last Shot (HB) by Jock Zonfrillo
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens. From reckless drug addict to one of Australia's top chefs and television stars: MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo's powerful life story will shock and inspire. Jock's life spiralled out o ...Show more
The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire by Francesca Cartier Brickell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . This elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark."-The EconomistThe captivating story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store ...Show more
A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The collected writing of one of Australia's most admired authors and journalists, Les Carlyon. 'Les Carlyon has died, and Australia has lost one of its greatest wordsmiths.' Greg Baum, The Age 'He's been called Australia's Damon Runyon, but that tag is far too limiting to do him justice. Certainly his ...Show more
Love in Bloomsbury by Frances Partridge
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
The Bloomsbury Group was as well known for its love affairs as for the work that was produced by its members. Of all the romantic entanglements, the love quadrangle between Frances Partridge, her husband Ralph Partridge, his first wife, Dora and Lytton Strachey was one of the most tortured (Frances love ...Show more
Malice in Wonderland - My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer during his many fascinating encounters with extraordinary--often legendary--characters in his search for the real Cecil Beaton Hugo Vickers' life took a dramatic turn in 1979 when the legendary Sir Cecil Beaton invited him ...Show more
Taste - My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the kitchen Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent ev ...Show more
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid con ...Show more