Sleeping with the Dead by Cunningham, Marko
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"Today I raced through the streets of Bangkok in my rescue vehicle, extracted an injured man from a truck at the port, then took him to hospital. Shortly after, in another area, I donned a fire suit and breathing apparatus and walked into a flaming building looking for trapped people and ended up rescui ...Show more
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Russell Brand grew up in Essex . His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Conti stage school. There, he began drinking heavily and taking drugs. He regularly visited prostitutes in Soho, began cutting himself, took drugs on stage dur ...Show more
Stieg Larsson, My Friend by Kurdo Baksi
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Five years after his death, Stieg Larsson is best known as the author of the Millennium Trilogy, but during his career as a journalist he was a crucial protagonist in the battle against racism and for democracy in Sweden, and one of the founders of the anti-facist magazine Expo. Kurdo Baksi first met La ...Show more
An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna
$54.99 AUD
Category: Biography
More than any other historian in the twentieth century, Manning Clark inspired the love and loathing of political parties, professional colleagues and the general public. Throughout his life, he played several roles: teacher, author of the epic "A History of Australia", anointed historian of the Austral ...Show more
Memoirs of a Dervish by Robert Irwin
$14.99 AUD
$35.00 (57% off)
Category: Biography
For many children of the sixties a 'journey to the East' was a necessary rite of passage. In an extraordinary memoir Robert Irwin contrasts the contexts of England - the new culture and the hippy trail - with those of Algeria - bombs and guns and mysticism. In the summer of 1964, while a military coup w ...Show more
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Bloomsbury Classic Reads
Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend h ...Show more
Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here is a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times. In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old a ...Show more
My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me by Boris Mihailovic
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Whether you're into dirt bikes, road bikes, ride a Yamaha, scooter or Laverda: if you've ever experienced the primal rush of riding a motor bike, the pain of crashing, the suffering of healing and the epiphanies of speed then this book is for you. My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me is about friend ...Show more
Heart Garden - Sunday Reed & Heide by Janine Burke
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"Born into one of Melbourne's most prominent establishment families, Sunday Baillieu was expected to become a society princess. But this passionate individualist turned her back on upper-class privilege and created a life wholly her own. With her husband, John Reed, Sunday established Heide - a home and ...Show more
Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Janelle McCulloch
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies' college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that ...Show more
Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General by Quentin Bryce
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even mo ...Show more
The Boy with Two Lives by Abbas Kazerooni
$15.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: On Two Feet and Wings
When ten-year-old Abbas arrives in England to start a new life - having just fled conscription into the Iranian army and survived almost three months alone in Istanbul, Turkey, waiting for a visa - he does not know that his troubles have only just begun.Abbas's cousin packs him off to boarding school, a ...Show more