Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
$37.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature of her madness and suicide, the truth ab ...Show more
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The name "Edith Wharton" conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanished a ...Show more
The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. Drawing not only on interviews with a range of Amis' friends, relatives, fellow wr ...Show more
Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger by Laurence Leamer
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The life of Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most extraordinary success stories of our time. Born in a village in Austria, he became the greatest bodybuilder in history and then the number one movie star in the world. Today, he is the Republican husband of a Kennedy princess, and the governor of the ...Show more
Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius by Linda Lear
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
<b>Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life.</b><br><br>This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scient ...Show more
Even After All This Time by Latifi Afschineh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An unforgettable story of one family's perseverance and triumph against all oddsIn February 1979, when Afschineh Latifi was just ten years old, her father, a colonel under the Shah of Iran, was imprisoned by Khomeini's soldiers. Afschineh and her three siblings were left in the care of their mother, who ...Show more
Dali and I : The Surreal Story by Stan Lauryssens
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he only sold one name: Salvador Dali. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors and businessman looking to launder black-market cash. Stan didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would d ...Show more
Churchill by Himself by Richard M. Langworth (ed)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Churchill (1874-1965) was one of the 20th century's most charismatic and controversial figures. He escaped from capture as a prisoner of war in the Boer War, was a Nobel Prize-winning author and twice prime minister. He is best remembered as the astute and powerful orator who inspired a battered Britain ...Show more
All My Mob by Ruby Langford Ginibi
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Black Australian Writing Ser.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIR DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWNAll My Mob, Ruby Langford Ginibi's fifth book, is a compelling collection of reminiscences on family life, Indigenous social issues, 'home' and being Aboriginal in today's Australia.All My Mobis a fascinating compilation of new stor ...Show more