Down the Dirt Roads by Rachael Treasure
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'For me, being in a paddock means anything is possible ' Country girl and bestselling novelist Rachael Treasure seemed to have it all, a long-dreamed-of lifestyle on her own patch of dirt in Tasmania's rugged and beautiful wilderness. But through the breakdown of her marriage, Rachael lost her family fa ...Show more
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: New York Review Books Classics
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water" continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carp ...Show more
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marr ...Show more
Our Man Elsewhere In Search of Alan Moorehead by Thornton McCamish
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure, Ala ...Show more
Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family by Mariel Hemingway
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
She opens her eyes. The room is dark. She hears yelling and smashed plates, and wishes it was all a terrible dream. But it isn't. This is what it was like growing up as a Hemingway. In this deeply moving, searingly honest new memoir, actress and mental health icon Mariel Hemingway shares in candid detai ...Show more
Evatt : A Life by John Murphy
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
John Murphy's Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the 1940s and for his central role in the formation of the UN, Evatt went on to be the leader of the Labor party in the ...Show more
Extraordinary Life of A. A. Milne by Nadia Cohen (Contribution by)
$52.99 AUD
Category: Biography
VERY few authors can ever dream of coming close to the legacy left by AA Milne. He remains a household name in almost every corner of the globe thanks to a phenomenally popular collection of whimsical children's stories about a boy named Christopher Robin and his beloved teddy bear. Generations of child ...Show more
The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof. Prompted by interes ...Show more
W.A. MOZART by ABERT HERMANN
$156.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Hermann Abert's classic biography, first published in German more than eighty years ago and itself based on the definitive mid-nineteenth century study by Otto Jahn, remains the most informed and substantial biography of Mozart in any language. The book is both the fullest account of the composer's life ...Show more
Habermas: A Biography by Stefan Müller-Doohm
$55.95 AUD
Category: Biography
'J rgen Habermas', wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker's eightieth birthday, 'is not only the world's most famous living philosopher. Even his fame is famous.' Now, after many years of intensive research and in-depth conversations with contemporari ...Show more
Madness Visible: A memoir of war by Janine di Giovanni
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Superb war reporting which sits alongside that of Martha Gellhorn, Fergal Keane and John Simpson Award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni spent much of the 1990s observing the cycles of violence and vengeance from inside Balkan cities and villages, refugee camps and makeshift hospitals. This was a co ...Show more
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the world, and the book has become an international classic. When Anne Boyd Rioux read the novel in her twenties, she had a powerful rea ...Show more