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At the outbreak of World War 1, Ernest Randolph Holmes, eldest of seven children, from Kew Victoria, couldn't enlist in the artillery fast enough. This is his story, told through...

'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain.' - Guardian In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland....

It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven - child of sun and surf - is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floating on a...

Fourteen-year-old Jade Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick. In 2016, she skied to the North Pole. In 2017, she completed the Greenland Crossing. In 2018, she...

Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through memoir-style stories from his remarkable life and career. THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD...

A story of love, loss and discovery. The background to the narrative is Gillian's life-long search for the truth about her father, a man she barely knew. As she follows...

From the author of popular affirmations handbook TODAY I WILL... comes this book of inspiration to use in daily life. Each page is an invitation to appreciate the richness of...

This literary biography looks at the life of Thomas Mann. Vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from different angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavoury private man:...

'Fascinating reminiscences of her past.A wonderfully vivid evocation of a lower-middle-class childhood of oil lamps and gas mantles, water heated up in a coke boiler for the weekly bath, liberty...

Lord Byron in all his controversial splendor--the long-awaited, authoritative biography With this brilliant book, Fiona MacCarthy has produced the most important work on Byron in nearly half a century. Granted...

An insightful, behind-the-scences portrait of the technology giant Apple Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs's death,...

'There was something magical about the unplumbed depths,the moor hens,the dragonflies, the waterlilies, the willows, the floating rings and rafts...' Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge...

IN THIS VOLUME: The mass is ended by Catherine Dunne and Caelainn Hogan The Way Back by Colum McCann A Trip to Westeros by Mark O'Connell Plus: life on the...

The book titled The Push: an Impressionist Memoir by the author Judy Ogilvie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The French nineteenth-century painter Berthe Morisot (1841-95) was held by her contemporaries to be the 'quintessential Impressionist'. She was an influential member of the Impressionist group, whose exhibitions she organized...

The paperback of Untold Stories contains new unpublished diaries, as well as a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary...

The inspiration for the HBO (R) Original Documentary, Rock Hudson : All that Heaven Allowed , airing June 28! The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee...

The book titled Victoria: Biography of a Queen by the author Stanley Weintraub. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"There never was a greater Australian diplomat than Sir James Plimsoll". -- Alexander Downer, AC "You're mad to move Plimsoll. He's got contacts here and great influence". -- Henry Kissinger...

This midlife journey coincided with events that swept the world in the sixties and seventies: the death of President Kennedy, May '68 in France, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the...

Vera-Ellen should have been one of Broadway and Hollywood's most enduring stars. She was a fine dramatic and light comedic actress, and was considered by a number of authorities to...

Leopardi, widely considered to be the greatest Italian poet since Dante, was a scholar and philospher whose outstanding scholarly and philosophical works and superb poetry place him in the pantheon...

The book titled As the Twig is Bent by the author Terry Lane. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Christopher Robbins was a bright but impoverished young journalist when he met Brian Desmond Hurst in the early 1970s. Hurst was then in the twilight of his career as Ireland's...

Diana Vreeland reveals the growth of her prpfessional prowess and gives an account of her personal history, at the same time as it brings to life Mrs' Vreeland's pizzaa, humour,...

A classic of World War II literature, an incredibly revealing work that provides a near comprehensive account of the war and brings to life the legendary general and eventual president...

In a career spanning 60 years and thousands of paintings, Auguste Renoir ensured that his art communicated a sense of happiness and contentment. Through his sense of colour, he transformed...

This study of Shaw is an attempt to provide a record of the impact Shaw made on his contemporaries and of the way in which he presented himself and his...

A collection of pieces of memoir by contemporary international writers. Edited by the author of 'IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU'.

The book titled Singing My Him Song by the author Malachy McCourt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Rose Chan, "Queen of Striptease" at just 27 years old, enthralled men young and old in the heyday of cabaret in 1950s Malaya. Her accidental shot to fame, thanks to...

Disillusioned chef and sustainable food advocate Lucy Ridge is sick of the barked orders, the long hours, the inappropriate comments in a male-dominated hospitality environment. It's ruining her love for...

Robert Louis Stevenson was an influential travel writer, who said "to travel hopefully is better than to arrive". He is best-known for his literary travels in the past, in such...

A new, critical biography of the innovative and influential French artist Henri Matisse. Henri Matisse's experiments with form and colour revolutionised the twentieth-century art world. In this concise critical biography,...

A thoughtful, nuanced look at Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by award-winning journalist Stan Grant, which considers race, representation and Australian history. Stan Grant is drawn to Thomas...

While W.K. Hancock may no longer be described as 'Australia's most distinguished historian', he has some enduring claims to our attention. No other Australian historian - and few elsewhere -...

Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man By Joseph Beuys. Edited by Carin Kuoni. "A tasty collection of hitherto uncollected/unpublished writings by and about the legendary German...

In February 2009 Father Peter Kennedy, of Saint Mary's Catholic Church in South Brisbane, was sacked by his Archbishop for contravening aspects of Catholic doctrine. This book is an assembly...

The Romanian critic Eugen Simion contests leading twentieth-century critics who deny the author a place in criticism by maintaining that the author's life can tell us nothing about his or...

Throughout his working life, Duncan Grant experimented with a variety of styles and techniques, from commercial interior decoration to ceramics, print-making and theatre work, as well as easel painting and...

Andrew Mellon rose to become one of America's greatest financiers. Despite painful shyness and personal misery - his loveless marriage ended in scandalous divorce - he built a mighty and...

The book titled Headliners: Craig Mcgregor's Social Portraits by the author Craig McGregor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Moving freely between a detailed life-story and attempts to understand significant questions, this biography of Virginia Woolf addresses topics such as the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature...

'Lewis' eccentric memoir-cum-biography will be read long after Burgess' own works have vanished into oblivion.' Mail on Sunday 'There are passages of such brilliance - especially when he rails against...

Henry Yorke led a double life. Under his own name he was managing director of his father's engineering company; as Henry Green he was the author of some of the...

Michael Doran has gathered texts by contemporaries of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)-including artists, critics, and writers-that illuminate the influential painter's philosophy of art especially in his late years. The book includes...

Hugo Ball-poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic-was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret...