Inferno: A Memoir by Catherine Cho
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"My psychosis, for all its destruction and wrath, was a love story. When Catherine left London for the US with her husband James, to introduce her family to their newborn son Cato, she could not have envisaged how that trip would end. Catherine would find herself in an involuntary psych ward in New Jers ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me; an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
Walter Gropius - Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In her majestic biography of Walter Gropius, charismatic founder of the Bauhaus, Fiona MacCarthy argues that his visionary ideas still influence the way we live, work, and think today. Mention the Bauhaus and iconic objects such as a Marianne Brandt teapot, an Anni Albers weaving or a Marcel Breuer cha ...Show more
Unfettered and Alive by Anne Summers
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I was born into a world that expected very little of women like me. We were meant to tread lightly on the earth, influencing events through our husbands and children, if at all. We were meant to fade into invisibility as we aged. I defied all of these expectations and so have millions of women like me. ...Show more
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Aged fifteen and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped in Sydney on a night out, sparking a series of events that left her devastatingly ill for more than ten years of her life. Her path to healing began a decade later, when she told someone about her rape for the ...Show more
Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. This highly collectible book contains images selected by Cave from 'Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition', presented by the Royal Danish Library in partnershi ...Show more
Come: A memoir by Rita Therese
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Two selves intertwine and it leaves you, in the dance room, making a decision that winged liner is just for work. Because you don't know which self you are looking at right now, which person you are. The song stops and you break out of your trance and ask if he'd like to extend... Rita is an escort, one ...Show more
The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anna Pasternak
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Wallis Simpson was one of the most vilified women of twentieth century. In a stunning biography, Anna Pasternak asks who the American Duchess really was - a social climber, a master manipulator, or simply the true love of King Edward's life? Life has always been made difficult for those marrying into E ...Show more
Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks by John Curran; Agatha Christie (Contribution by); David Suchet (Introduction by)
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas, two unpublished Poirot stories and a lost Miss Mar ...Show more
Life In A Box: Traveller. Antiques Dealer. Mother. Model. Iconoclast. by Sarah Jane Adams
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The wonderfully compelling and unorthodox memoir of 63-year old international model and iconoclast, @mywrinklesaremystripes' Sarah Jane Adams. Auction catalogues can reveal a lot about a person: their life, their loves and their style. Antique jewellery dealer Sarah Jane Adams became an international mo ...Show more
The Unsung Family Hero: The death and life of an anti-Nazi resistance fighter by Gardener Paul
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Set in Nazi-occupied Holland, this book tell the story of the author's uncle, an anti-Nazi resistance fighter. A gentle, thoughtful man who had a successful career as a commercial photographer, he eventually reacts to ruthless tyranny by joining the Resistance as part of a team that forged identity pape ...Show more
With Child - Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher by Andy Martin; Lee Child (Foreword by)
26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
With a foreword by Lee Child.Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of Never Go Bac ...Show more