At the Birth of Bowie - Life with the Man Who Became a Legend by Phil Lancaster
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. Amid the color and chaos is a boy sporting drainpipe jeans, an immaculately tailored sports coat and a half-inch wide tie. A devoted fan of The Who, he looks the part in his pristine mod gear. As the lead singer of the Lower Third, his tale ...Show more
A Country Nurse by Thea Hayes
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
More fascinating and inspiring rural adventures from Thea Hayes, author of the bestselling An Outback Nurse.
Marie-Antoinette - The Making of a French Queen by John Hardman
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queenWho was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, Joh ...Show more
So Brightly at the Last: Clive James and the Passion For - Poetry by Ian SHIRCORE
47.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jimin hendrix, Princess Diana and Syria's Asma Al-Assad rub shoulders with Auden, Eliot and Shelley - and with the Trouser Thief Clive met during ten long weeks locked up in a closed psychiatric ward - in this offbeat and affectionate poetic biography. Since 2010, when Clive was told he had three separa ...Show more
Bohemian Lives by Amy Licence
29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Ida Nettleship was a flamboyant Bohemian who gave up a promising artistic career to marry Augustus John. She had five pregnancies in just six years, lived with Augustus and his mistress in a menage a trois, and died exhausted in childbirth aged thirty. Ida's story of unconventional love is equalled by t ...Show more
Beth Chatto: A Life with Plants by Beth Chatto
79.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Beth Chatto is one of the most influential gardeners in our history. This extraordinary person will touch generations of gardeners to come. Gardeners from all over the world have taken her lead on the right plant, right place and have had our eyes opened to texture, shape and form. - Fergus Garrett Of a ...Show more
Openside - My Journey to the Rugby World Cup and Beyond by David Pocock
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe by Angela Kelly LVO
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace. Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for twenty-five years, initially as Her Majesty's Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty's Personal Advisor, ...Show more
Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist by Richard Allsop
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the country's past as The Tyranny of Distance and Triumph of the Nomads. However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian im ...Show more
Wild Game - My Mother, Her Lover and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicityEvery time I fail to become more like my mother, I become more like me.On a hot August night on Cape Cod, when Adrienne was 14, her mother Malabar woke her at midnight with five ...Show more
Fashion Climbing: A New York Life by Bill Cunningham
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I took to New York life like a star shooting through the heavens...' Bill Cunningham's first love was fashion but the big city came a close second. He left for New York aged nineteen, losing his family's support but enjoying the infinite luxury of freedom. Living on a scoop of Ovaltine a day, he would ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern by Michelle Duff
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is lauded as one of the world's most influential people. Her rise to power has been stellar. In 2017, she became leader of the Labour party just seven weeks before the election, at which she claimed the top job.