White Lies: Bending the Truth - All Part of the Job For an Undercover Cop by Damian Marrett
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Covert operative 003 Damian Marrett is back with more crime-fighting yarns in White Lies. this time he pits himself against speed-dealing neo-Nazis, interstate dealers who put a price on his head, and a drug-trafficking Olympian, plus he encounters a crim who pricks his conscience ... Damian Marrett was ...Show more
Undercover by Damian Marett
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Damian Marrett was just 19 years of age when he joined the Victoria Police in 1986 as a somewhat reluctant recruit. Four years down the track, he was handpicked to work in a covert capacity for the Drug Squad. A further six years working undercover, and Marrett had played a major role in up to 50 operat ...Show more
Claude and Madeleine by Edward Marriott
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Claude Peri and Madeleine Bayard meet in the 1930s, they fall immediately and passionately in love. Soul mates and lovers, they work together on missions as spies for the French Government âÃÂàbut on returning to Paris in 1939, they are appalled to see their countrymen flee the capital in ...Show more
Patrick White: A life by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster ...' Patrick White Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogra ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A biography of Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, author of more than a dozen novels and many other books, a spokesman for (and against) an Australia he both hated and loved. The author secured White's co-operation in tracking down sources and using private documentary material, bu ...Show more
BARWICK by MARR DAVID
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'The brilliant biography of one of Australia's most powerful men a special book.' The Age'The best biography written by an Australian; the best biography written about an Australian.' Sir Richard KirbyFor forty years Sir Garfield Barwick stood at the centre of power in Australia.
Living To Tell The Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel Garcia Marquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the st ...Show more
Wild Mary : A Life of Mary Wesley by Patrick Marnham
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The authorised, and astonishing, biography of Mary Wesley. Mary Wesley famously began writing at the age of 70. Her ten best-selling novels won her thousands of fans, and described a world that she had known in her youth - the world of war-time London, with its fear and high-spirits and casual sex. The ...Show more
In off the Red: An Autobiography by Ken Marks
$42.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the remarkable story of a boy with a finely honed sense of justice who became a Lancaster bomber pilot in the Second World War, then a card carrying Communist and eventually a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Mr Nice and Mrs Marks - Adventures with Howard by Judy Marks
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
The 'Bonnie & Clyde' adventures of the world's most notorious dope smugglers! Howard Marks' story has passed into hippie folklore. At one time, the world's then most wanted man had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines and 25 registered companies. Thanks to the technical brilliance of his networking skill ...Show more
Wild Mary : A life of Mary Wesley by Patrick Marnham
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The extraordinary life of Mary Wesley. Mary Wesley published her first novel when she was 70 - and went on to write 9 more bestsellers before her death in 2002 at the age of 89. Wesley was a pen-name, derived from the family name of Wellesley. She was born Mary Farmar, descended from the Duke of Welli ...Show more