Martin Sharp: His life and times by Joyce Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: STELLA LL 2018
Martin Sharp's art was as singular as his style. He blurred the boundaries of high art and low with images of Dylan, Hendrix and naked flower children that defined an era. Along the way the irreverent Australian was charged with obscenity and collaborated with Eric Clapton as he drew rock stars and repr ...Show more
Born at the Right Time: A Memoir by Ron McCallum
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Senior Australian of the Year
Blind from birth, Ron regards himself as fortunate to have been born at a time when ever improving technology has enabled him to live a rich and full life, and to become a professor of law at one of Australia's most prestigious universities. Ron McCallum has been blind from birth. When he was a child, ...Show more
My Outback Life by Toni Tapp Coutts
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Sequel to A Sunburnt Childhood
Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in the Gulf Country, 600 kilometres away near the Queensland border. Toni became cook, counsellor, housekeeper and nurse to the ho ...Show more
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Seventeen Brushes with Death
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extr ...Show more
Beatrix Potter, Scientist by Lindsay H. Metcalf; Junyi Wu (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: She Made History Ser.
Everyone knows Beatrix Potter as the creator of the Peter Rabbit stories. But before that, she was a girl of science. As a child, Beatrix collected nature specimens; as a young adult, she was an amateur mycologist presenting her research on mushrooms and other fungi to England's foremost experts. Like m ...Show more
Hilke's Diary - Germany, July 1940-August 1945 by Hilke; Charlotte Clark; Geseke Clark (Editor)
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Sutton Ser.
Hilke's Diary is a battered, chintz-covered little book with a flowery pattern, its lock (once so important to its young owner) long since broken. It has survived an incredible near-seventy years, and was the inseparable companion of a little German girl throughout the Second World War. Hilke was evacua ...Show more
Renoir's Dancer - The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Suzanne Valadon
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager in Montmartre, Suzanne began posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned p ...Show more
The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy #3) by Gerald Durrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the ...Show more
'I can't imagine anything worse': A salute to Prince Philip (in his own words) by Orange Hippo!
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
"A talent for putting one's foot in one's mouth"
Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Yorkshire Shepherdess Ser.
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller. As seen on Channel 5's Our Yorkshire Farm.Amanda Owen loves her traditional life on her hill farm alongside her nine children and husband Clive. And, as readers of her previous bestsellers will know, every day at Ravenseat brings surprises. In Adventures of the Yorksh ...Show more
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me by Joseph Martin Bauer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Tom Thorne Novels Ser.
Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after World War II. Rebelling against the brutality of the camp, Forell staged a daring escape enduring an 8000-mile journey across the trackless wastes of Siberia, in some of the most treacherous and in ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Th ...Show more