No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography of Jim Morrison by Jerry Hopkins
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This title traces the story of Jim Morrison's tragic and triumphant life to his sudden and mysterious death in Paris on 3rd July, 1971. Today, nearly 40 years later he remains the major rock'n'roll cult hero of the 1960's.
Myself When Young: Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
12.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Text Classics Ser.
It has never been my way to say much about my private life. Rightly or wrongly, I believed this only concerned myself. And I trusted to my husband to supply, on my death, any further information that might be asked for. Now that he is gone, however, there is no one to take his place, and so I propose to ...Show more
Church of the Open Sky by Nat Young
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Australian Surfer
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have ...Show more
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (updated edition) by David Marr
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
David Marr's explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.In March this year, the nation's most powerful Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was jailed for child sexual assault. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man, his career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power ...Show more
Poster Boy: A Memoir of Art and Politics by Peter Drew
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I've stuck up thousands of posters across Australia to interrogate our national identity. With each, the response has grown. You might expect I have unshakable convictions about social justice, but I don't. I reject the label 'activist'. So why do what I do? Maybe it's time I made sense of my motivation ...Show more
The Way Through the Woods: Of mushrooms and mourning by LONG LITT WOON AND BARBARA HAVELAND
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing - hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf's unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon strugg ...Show more
Shame on Me: An Anthology of Race and Belonging by Tessa McWatt
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tessa McWatt knows first-hand that the answer to this question, often asked of people of colour by white people, is always more complicated than it seems. Is the answer English, Scottish, British, Caribbean, Portuguese, Indian, Amerindian, French, African, Chinese, Canadian? Like most families, hers is ...Show more
On the Chin: A Boxing Education by Alex McClintock
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first thing that impressed me about Fritzy was his collection of boxing maxims, which he deployed continuously and without regard to their relevance: 'Ya don't play boxing', 'Don't hook with a hooker', 'Kill the body and the head'll die', 'Move ya head or the other guy'll move it for ya.' Fritzy was ...Show more
Wooleen Way: Renewing an Australian Resource by David Pollock
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Australian Memoir
The outback conjures many images that the Australian psyche is built upon. Its grand vistas of sweeping dusty plains and its evocation of a tough pioneering spirit form the foundation of our prosperous culture. But these romantic visions often hide the stark environmental, economic, and social problems ...Show more
My Story by Julia Gillard
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Featuring new material. 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.'On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minist ...Show more
Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic. At one point Cullen shot Jensen, in part to see how committed he was to the book. ...Show more
True confessions of a Shameless Gossip by Craig Bennett
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From his humble beginnings on The Mike Walsh Show as the 'snake boy of St Ives', Craig Bennett really has seen, done and reported on it all. In this delightfully honest book he takes us through his early days of fawning over the classic stars of Australian TV; from working as a cadet reporter at News Li ...Show more