Letters of Love by Alannah & Madeline Foundation, The (Editor)
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: UNDER "A" IN NONFICTION
The Port Arthur massacre was one of the darkest days in Australian history. But the response, an unprecedented outpouring of love and compassion, also brought out the best in Australians. One year after that tragedy, Walter Mikac launched the Alannah and Madeline Foundation, in honour of his two young d ...Show more
Violin Lessons by Arnold Zable
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A young boy plays the violin for his mother in Melbourne. Nina Simone sings 'Pirate Jenny' in a bar in Berlin. A fisherman plays a flute on the Mekong. And the strains of Paganini resonate in the forests of eastern Poland. From the cabarets of 1940s Baghdad to the streets of war-torn Saigon and the cana ...Show more
Where is Daniel? by Bruce Morcombe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On 7 December 2003 Daniel Morcombe disappeared on the Sunshine Coast, while waiting for a bus. For Bruce and Denise Morcombe - the parents of Daniel - and his brothers, Bradley and Dean, it was apparent within hours that something was very wrong. In the first few days following Daniel's disappearance, B ...Show more
A Life Discarded : 148 Diaries Found in a Skip by Alexander Masters
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap. A Life Discarded is a biographical d ...Show more
All I Know: A memoir of love, loss and life by Mary Coustas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Starting with a colourful childhood in Collingwood and Doncaster, under the shadow of her father's mortality, and ending in sunny Bondi, supported by a tight circle of girlfriends who got her through a death even more painful, Mary Coustas takes us on a journey through three deaths that changed her life ...Show more
And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most respectful demurring by me for the excellent writer Charles J. Shields, who offered to be my biographer"). Unwilling to take no for an answer, propelle ...Show more
The Attachment: Letters from a most unlikely friendship by Ailsa Piper, Tony Doherty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dear Ailsa, Sometimes I wonder whether the friendship that has caught us both-a most unlikely friendship I must confess-might find an echo in a far off Irish village somewhere in the wild, windy hills of old Donegal. Or am I allowing that uncontrollable imagination of mine too much slack? This is the st ...Show more
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Lawrence Anthony; Graham Spence
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, caught in the crossfire at the heart of the city. Once Anthony entered Iraq, he discovered that hostilities and uncontrolled looting had devastated the zoo and its animals.Working with m ...Show more
Beatrix Potter: The Pitkin Guide to by Annie Bullen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Pitkin Biographical S.
This fascinating biography introduces readers and visitors to the world of this remarkable author.
Behind Palace Doors by Colin Burgess
$18.98 AUD
Category: Biography
The most senior and best respected member of any royal family in history, she did not give one media interview in her 101 years. This affectionate and often hilarious glimpse into her world by her former equerry reveals what life was really like living with the most private of all the royals. In this sh ...Show more
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE 2012 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2012 US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving to ...Show more
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A raw, vivid and ultimately uplifting memoir of addiction and recovery from the Salon.com personal essays editor, in the spirit of Drinking: A Love Story and Wild. For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was 'the gasoline of all adventure'. She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly st ...Show more