Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She is a Hit in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A radical look at Jane Austen as you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. Jane's World celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A collection of Bennett's diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett's third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories. Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one ...Show more
Life Force by Barry du Bois; Miguel Maestre (As told to); Amanda Keller (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Barry du Bois shares an incredible story that is heart-breaking and life-affirming in equal measures. Faced with the recurrence of his incurable cancer Channel 10's The Living Room's building and design expert Barry Du Bois leaves nothing to chance as he embraces a do-or-die treatment to extend his time ...Show more
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned.Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This is ...Show more
The Man Who Climbs Trees by James Aldred
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Category: Biography
'The wide horizontal branches stretched away from me to curl up like the giant fingers of an enormous cupped hand. I slid back into the centre of its protective palm and waited for my heart to slow. After a while the small herd of Fallow deer I had been following emerged from the trees, carefully pickin ...Show more
My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage by Ingrid Seward
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, it wasn't without its problems. The romance between the sailor prince and the young princess brought a splash of colour to a nation still in the grip of post-war austerity. When th ...Show more
My Own Story: Suffragette by Emmeline Pankhurst
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This work is one of the top biographies written by Emmeline Pankhurst. The closing paragraphs of this book were written in the late summer of 1914, when the armies of every great power in Europe were being mobilised for savage, unsparing, barbarous warfare-against one another, against small and unaggres ...Show more
Outsiders - Five Women Writers who Changed the World - Virginia Woolf, Olive Schreiner,George Eliot, Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley by Lyndall Gordon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the ...Show more
Phillip Adams: Insights and Reflections by Phillip Adams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Phillip Adams, the occasionally controversial but undeniably prolific writer and broadcaster, has collected his favourite insights and reflections from previous columns and speeches in this generous volume spanning 2003 to the present day. Adams social commentary has been a part of the Australian cultur ...Show more
Quicksand by Henning Mankell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death, but about what it means to be human. Mankell writes about love and jealousy, courage and fear, about what it is like to live with a fatal illness. This book is also about why the cave painters ...Show more
Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs by Tina Brown
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For the millions who adored the People's Princess, this lavish book celebrates Diana Spencer's life in pictures. Page after page of inside photos from the legendary National Geographic archives document the royal's most memorable moments in the spotlight; a luminous, personal remembrance by Diana friend ...Show more
Renoir's Dancer - The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager Suzanne began, in Montmartre, posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned paint ...Show more