Toast - The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel's passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer. 'Toast' is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary ...Show more
Giacometti in Paris by Michael Peppiatt
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Marvellous . . . intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul Theroux A portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our most eminent art historians Today the work of Alberto Giacometti is world-famous and his sculptures sell for record-breaking ...Show more
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by William Boyd, Alistair Owen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life o ...Show more
My Mother and I by Ingrid Seward
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A vivid and revealing portrait of the real relationship between King Charles III and his mother, by the esteemed royal biographer, Ingrid Seward - perfect for fans of the popular Netflix TV series The Crown.The relationship between the late monarch and her son, the King, has long been a subject of fasci ...Show more
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family. Lov ...Show more
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
As Read On BBC Radio 4. "A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time." (Amanda Foreman ...Show more
The Romanov Sisters : The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." —People magazine "The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, but Rappaport captures sections of letters and diary entries to showcase the sisters’ thoughtfulness and intelligence." —Publishers Weekly (st ...Show more
Motherlands: In Search of Our Inherited Cities by Amaryllis Gacioppo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Our creation stories begin with the notion of expulsion from our 'original' home. We spend our lives struggling to return to the place we fit in, the body we belong in, the people that understand us, the life we were meant for. But the places we remember are ever-changing, and ever since we left, they c ...Show more
Days in the Caucasus by Banine (tr. Anne Thompson-Ahmadova)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman’s determined struggle for freedom We all know families that are poor but ‘respectable’. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not ‘respectable’ at all… This is the extraordinary memoir of an ‘odd, rich, exotic’ childhood – of growing ...Show more
Penny Wong: Passion and Principle by Margaret Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from climate change to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide.In this first-ever biography of Wong, acclaimed jou ...Show more
Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories by Shauna Bostock
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history. The phone rang unexpectedly late one night. 'Guess who our white ancestors were?' chuckled Uncle Gerry. 'They were slave traders! A couple of generations of slave traders!' With this startling revelation, Shauna wanted to ...Show more
Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by John Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. ...Show more