The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains i ...Show more
Straight on Till Morning by Mary Lovell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Beryl Markham, like Karen Blixen, could only have come out of Africa. Pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer, unscrupulous seducer ? her life story is for every reader who was enthralled by Blixen's exotic world, that of Kenya between the wars. This fully authorised biograp ...Show more
John Mortimer - The Devil's Advocate : the unauthorised biography by Graham Lord
$27.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
John Mortimer was a promising barrister who married a successful novelist (Penelope Mortimer) and then started writing himself. At first he wrote plays, most famously the autobiographical A Voyage Round My Father, and he is credited with the hugely successful TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead R ...Show more
Mae West by Simon Louvish
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Presents an account of Mae West's legendarily sassy life and work. This work examines her early vaudeville career, her controversial Broadway shows, and her phenomenal film career, through to her larger-than-life Vegas and nightclub acts, and talks about her life with her companion-unto-death, Paul Nova ...Show more
A Scandalous Life : The Biography of Jane Digby by Mary Lovell
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England s most scandalous at th ...Show more
Mandela: A Critical Life by Tom Lodge
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political hero that he now enjoys? This new and highly revea ...Show more
IN YOUR FACE : THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BILLY 'THE TEXAN' LONGLEY by ROCHELLE JACKSON
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Another Bloody Love Letter by Anthony Loyd
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Critically acclaimed writer and award-winning foreign correspondent, Anthony Loyd is also an ex-heroin addict. "Another Bloody Love Letter" exposes the thrilling and brutal reality of life as a war journalist - from the climax of war in Kosovo and the reignited battles between Ethiopia and Eritrea, to t ...Show more
Playing with Water A Story of a Garden by Kate Llewellyn
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Kate Llewellyn's world is one that concentrates on the simple things...the planting of flowers, the moving of a tree, the art of digging the perfect hole. this is a life that endows small things with grace and dignity. After moving from her much-loved home in the mountains, Kate starts to establish her ...Show more
Cosgrove: Portrait of a Leader by Patrick Lindsay
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'My name is Major General Peter Cosgrove. My task is to restore peace and order to East Timor. I plan to carry out that mission.' - General Peter Cosgrove General Cosgrove's leadership of the Peacekeeping Force in East Timor saw him become the face of the Australian digger and our well-loved and best-kn ...Show more
Dressmaker's Daughter: A memoir by Kate Llewellyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This candid account traces Llewellyn's life from her earliest days through to her nursing training, her marriage, life in Bohemian Adelaide in the 60s and 70s, and the beginning of her life as a writer. First published 2008.