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Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy. Born in Melbourne in 1907, Freddie's...

Their stories and others come together in this illustrated account of how dogged experimentation, courage and inspired innovation made possible the first manned flight.

The book titled Conqueror's Road by the author Osmar White. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Brett Whiteley: Art & Life: Art and Life by the author Barry Pearce. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled C. Hartley Grattan: Hartley Grattan and Australia by the author Laurence Hergenhan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Duberman Martin : Cures: A Gay Man'S Odyssey (Hbk): A Gay Man's by the author Martin Bauml Duberman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The book titled Mary and Richard: Story of Richard Hillary and Mary Booker by the author Michael Burn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde charts fully for the first time Oscar's astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London's sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven...

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER First responders run toward things the rest of us run away from. What makes a person want to become a first responder As in...

"An engaging romp." - New York Times Book Review "A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target...

From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in the...

The book titled When God Calls Expect Adventure by the author Lester Hawkes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

MARATHON MAN is an uplifting story of an extraordinary achievement - all the more inspiring given that the author was an inexperienced long-distance runner and only 20 when embarking on...

Having lived the first half of her life as male, Rebecca Norton sought medical intervention to become a woman, only to find that those whose support she longed for could...

The book titled Conversations with Brando by the author Lawrence Grobel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A New York Times Editor's Pick "It is a blunt observation, reflective of the potent message she delivers to her readers, a skillful unraveling of the myth of the submissive...

The book titled Is There A Moderate on the Roo by the author Tom Molomby. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In a nostalgic, yet nimble telling of his boyhood in Flushing, Michigan, Edmund Love notes that he was born into a world that ceased to exist almost as soon as...

Arriving at Ridgewell Air Base in Cambrideshire in July 1943, at a time when the loss rate for bomber crews was at its highest during the war, John Comer miraculously...

The book titled One Day at a Time: A Vietnam Diary by the author D.J. Dennis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Underestimated until recently in America, Melanie Klein was a leading figure in psychoanalytic circles from the 1920s until her death in 1960. From the moment she read Freud's paper On...

In May 1930, Amy Johnson, a typist from Hull, took off from Croydon Airport with a thermos flask and a packet of sandwiches to try to beat the world solo...

The book titled Virginia Woolf by the author James King. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Writing about Hugo Vickers s last book for Hutchinson, Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, a succession of fellow biographers applauded Vickers s unique skill. Masterly . . . Hugo Vickers s...

Harold Larwood's own version of the great 1932-1933 Ashes cricket series, with full scores and annotated photographs from his own collection. A cricket classic, first published in 1933. Harold Larwood...

Glines provides a full and compelling portrait of a Norwegian American pilot overshadowed in his lifetime by Admiral Richard Byrd but whose expertise and vision continue to guide trans-Artic a...

In this guide to science and society, a cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong. Years ago, cosmologist Stephon...

The book titled Into the Sun by the author Claude Thompson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Fred Mckay by the author Maisie McKenzie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book is a dramatic account of the making of a family of 'subversives' in Australia and the USSR during the Cold War. It also captures the texture of everyday...

Recounts the story of a seventeen-year-old German Jew hiding in Paris who set in motion the events that led to World War II.

The book titled A Damned Serious Business by the author Sir Rex Harrison. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Jean Batten: The Garbo of the Skies by the author Ian Mackersey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Razzle Dazzle by the author Moira Watson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'The Leibniz biography for our time. It is difficult to even begin to do justice to his rich spirit, but Kempe succeeds' Daniel Kehlmann, author of Measuring the World Gottfried...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER " My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty...

Features the real-life saga of the experiences of the Pushman family in the Second World War. Illustrated with family photographs, this book gives the reader a personal glimpse into both...

Marking the forty-fifth anniversary of Apollo 11Õs moon landing, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of AmericaÕs most famous astronaut, Neil ArmstrongÑthe man...

The war letters of Arthur Alan Mitchell 1939-45. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Alan Mitchell was a foreman at McPherson's bolt factory in Richmond. Eileen Griffin was...

The book titled The Great Scientists by the author John Farndon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Audacity to Believe by the author Shelia Cassidy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Kenneth Slessor by the author Dennis ed Haskell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

p>In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny Gipsy Moth across Londonrsquo;s Croydon aerodrome and, with a wave of his hand to the only person...

The revelatory story of an intellectual giant who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimination against women in science. Emmy Noether is one...