The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: National Trust History & Heritage
To this day, Beatrix Potter's tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A talented artist who became a scientific expert ...Show more
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink by William Perry
$50.95 AUD
Category: Biography
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. ...Show more
Through the Storm by SPEARS Lynne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
We all want our children to succeed. What happens when they do? Britney Spears wanted to sing ever since she was a little girl. But the years of sacrifices, auditions, performances, albums, fame, and paparazzi left the little Louisiana family swept up and spun around, and nothing turned out the way any ...Show more
Living the Good Life : How one family changed their world from their own backyard by Linda Cockburn
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This book presents an engaging and insightful look at one family's attempts to change their consumer led lifestyle. It includes tips, anecdotes and recipes for the environmentally conscious. In the spirit of BBC2's "It's Not Easy Being Green", here is a winning account of one family's quest to begin cha ...Show more
Patrick White: A life by David Marr
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster ...' Patrick White Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogra ...Show more
Vital Signs: Stories from Intensive Care by Ken Hillman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This gripping collection of stories about the experiences of intensive care patients, their families and carers, is about ordinary people facing terrible tragedies and the ways they cope with them. The author, an experienced intensive care clinician, takes the reader on a journey inside an intensive car ...Show more
Gandhi: Naked Ambition by Jad Adams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience (satyagraha), honoured in India as 'father of nation', Mohandas K. Gandhi has inspired movements for civil rights and political freedom across the ...Show more
In the Land of Oz by Howard Jacobson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On what he calls 'the adventure of his life', Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle the wild life of the bush, the wild men of the outback, or the even wilder women of the seaboard cities. In pursuit of the best of ...Show more
I've Been There (and Back Again) by Joy McKean
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The perfect gift book for Slim Dusty's legions of fans, whose numbers are still strong even years after his death. Joy McKean wrote many of her husband Slim Dusty's most well-loved songs, such as Lights on the Hill and When the Rain Tumbles Down in July . She is a natural writer and now she turns her ta ...Show more
The View from the Valley of Hell: Four years in the Middle East by Mark Willacy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From 2002 to 2006 Mark Willacy was the ABC Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalam and Baghdad, observing first hand some of the most dramatic and violent events of the twenty first century. His account of these four turbulant years is personal, informed and utterly riveting, Mark captures the hum ...Show more