Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on...' In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy, outrage ...Show more
Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography by Blanche d'Alpuget
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
To mark Bob Hawke's extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of the man in full in a definitive hardback commemorative biography. Bob Hawke began life as a good Christian boy from a teetotal family, became a wild, drinking, womanising student, a Rhodes Scholar, a cha ...Show more
High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's social life ever since she had her first sip of beer, at 13. She thought nothing could curb her love of big nights. And then c ...Show more
One Hundred Summers by Vanessa Branson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Taking the reader on a journey from the dying embers of Edwardian England, through the trauma of two world wars, the hedonism of London in the 1980s and 'Cool Britannia' in the 1990s right up to the present day, One Hundred Summers is a portrait of a century as it was experienced by one extraordinary fa ...Show more
Gotta Get Theroux This: My life and strange times in television by Louis Theroux
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat charact ...Show more
Barack and Joe - The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership by Steven Levingston; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A Washington Post 2019 Notable SelectionA vivid and inspiring account of the "bromance" between Barack Obama and Joe Biden.The extraordinary partnership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden is unique in American history. The two men, their characters and styles sharply contrasting, formed a dynamic working rel ...Show more
Gandhi: the Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which for much of his life seemed a permanent fact, but which he did more than anyone else to destro ...Show more
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, mi ...Show more
Searching for Charlotte: The Fascinating Story of Australia's First Children's Author (Charlotte Waring Atkinson) by Kate Forsyth; Belinda Murrell
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In Searching for Charlotte, Forsyth and Murrell tell Charlotte's story along with that of their own journey to discover her. In an intriguing account, the sisters join the reader in reacting to Charlotte's actions: wondering what could have motivated certain choices; admiring the strength of spirit that ...Show more
Like Father Like Son - A family story by Michael Parkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
The Girl Who Escaped ISIS by Farida Khalaf and Andrea C Hoffmann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and the boys of her village, including her father and bro ...Show more