The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discovery by David L. Mearns
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true expert on the mysteries of the deep sea.' CLIVE CUSSLER David Mearns has found some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. His deep-water searc ...Show more
Running Pink: The Deborah De Williams Story by Megan Norris
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Nothing was going to stop Deborah de Williams from running, 18,026 kilometres around Australia to raise funds for breast cancer research. Her initial attempt was abandoned, but only after running the last 825 kilometres on broken feet.
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 by Michael Palin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In the seventies Michael Palin's life revolved around Monty Python; in the 1990s it was acting. Now a new career opens up as a traveller with AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
Michael Parkinson - Parky's Picks DVD by Michael Parkinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Albanese Telling it Straight by Karen Middleton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The moving personal story behind the very public political face of Labor's Anthony Albanese, written with the cooperation of Albo. As much a window on the recent turbulent years of politics u from the man who was often in the middle of the room where everything was happening, and who became the Deputy P ...Show more
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Women in the West
In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family ...Show more
William S. Burroughs - A Life by Barry Miles
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Authoritative biography of cult writer William Burroughs (1914-1997). It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken s ...Show more
Walking Towards Ourselves: Indian Women Tell Their Stories by Catriona Mitchell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Walking Towards Ourselves gets behind the headlines and finds out what it means to be an Indian woman today. Walk in the shoes of some of India's foremost women writers and thinkers, and go on a journey into their intimate lives, to places you haven't been. From the film sets of Bollywood to a closeted ...Show more
Making Headlines by Chris Mitchell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As editor-in-chief of The Australian Chris Mitchell ran the largest stable of journalists with the largest editorial budget in the country for over a dozen years. In this humorous and revealing book he gives first hand details about the quirks and foibles of some of the most powerful politicians and med ...Show more
Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in ...Show more
The Latte Years: A Story of Losses, Gains and Life Beyond the After Photo by Philippa Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
At twenty-four Philippa Moore is overweight, unhappily married, and still living in her hometown of Hobart, Tasmania. After a wake-up call in a department-store changing room, Phil suddenly realises that she is on the wrong path. With determination she starts to shed the kilos, and makes a confronting d ...Show more
Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The first major biography for forty years tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, Nijinsky. 'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in "Nij ...Show more