Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity by Shahbaz Taseer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In late August of 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore, Pakistan when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by Islamic extremists. Just seven months earlier, his father, Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab Province, had been shot dead by his guard for speaking out ...Show more
Man Called Yarra by Stan Yarramunua
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
oI'm a Wathaurong man. I'm an artist who draws on life in this big red and yellow and black country.oStan oYarrao Yarramunua- artist, musician, actor, social worker, businessman.From growing up in poverty in Swan Hill - and sometimes on the road, with his itinerant father - Yarra had a tumultuous and of ...Show more
Collecting the World - The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten. Born in the north of Ireland, Sloane made his fortune as a physici ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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The Allure of Chanel by Paul Morand + illustrated by Karl Lagerfeld
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Paul Morand's last book, one of the most appealing of his oeuvre, brings together around the figure of Chanel, portraits of Misia Sert, Erik Satie, Serge Lifar, Georges Auric, Raymond Radiguet, Jean Cocteau, Picasso and Churchill, among others. Based on a series of intimate conversations between Morand ...Show more
Australia's Sweetheart: The Life and Times of Mary Maguire, Our Forgotten Hollywood Star by Michael Adams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the fascinating story of Mary Maguire, a 1930s Australian ingenue who sailed for Hollywood and a fabulous life, only to have her career cut short by scandal and tragedy. Packed with celebrity, history and gossip, AUSTRALIA'S SWEETHEART is perfect for readers of SHEILA and THE RIVIERA SET. Mary M ...Show more
A Memoir of a Male Escort by Ryan James
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Ryan James knows what womenreally want in bed. So muchso, women are willing to payhandsomely for what the maleescort and porn star has tooffer between the sheets andanywhere else the fantasy takesthem.Ryan takes you behind thescenesof his provocative world of sex and lust to discoverhow a twenty somethi ...Show more
The Moth: Occasional Magic - True Stories of Defying the Impossible by Catherine Burns, and The Moth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth recaptures this lost each week in cities across America, ...Show more
Julia Child: the Last Interview - And Other Conversations by Julia Child
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
This delightful collection of interviews with 'The French Chef' Julia Child traces her life from her first stab at a writing career; to D.C., Sri Lanka, and Kunming where she worked for the Office of Strategic Services (now the CIA); to Paris where she and her husband Paul, then a member of the State De ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
'Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled the width and breadth of Australia to bring together yet another memorable collection of stories. This time he has met with many of our outback truckies that criss-cross our nation - across deser ...Show more
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea Di Robilant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called "absolutely god-damned wonderful." A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a stri ...Show more
TARA: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS by Taylor Tara
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Enter Tara¿s private world, a world that, to some, is forbidden.Tara shares her personal journey navigating her way through a world she at first knew very little about. Tara is more than a `working girl¿; she is an amazing advocate for both men and women and always wants the best for everyone. Tara pass ...Show more