Biography - Secondhand

At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong...

A biography of Wayne Gardner

Five women - all HIV-positive - tell their diverse stories with honesty and determination. These powerful narratives reveal how each woman approached her predicament and the inner qualities she drew...

This political autobiography is a remarkable mix of the personal and the political as Dennis Altman writes his life. From growing up gay in Tasmania in the 1950's, to the...

The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived. Each of the seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild....

Rita Huggins was stolen from her country as a child in the 1920s, and taken to what was then the Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve. From that time, and also from the...

Ronnie Wood is one of rock's true originals. This is his story, in his own words, about his life, loves, family, friends, music, art and survival against the odds. It's...

'I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent...

Now in B format. I wanted to return to the place where I was born and see it with new eyes. I had no idea where my family was in...

A classic story of friendship and identity from from War Horse author Michael Morpurgo - now with a brand new cover look. Toby Jenkins doesn't like boarding school. He gets...

"Here was this angel in the court who seemed to appear out of nowhere. In fact she's quite an earthy creature, not some saintly type. She's defi nitely no shrinking...

This fascinating book takes a very different look at Australia's most popular sporting hero, Sir Donald Bradman. Unlike the mostly reverent literature on 'The Don', this 2003 book explains how...

From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes a monumental achievement: the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Over a...

'Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' - John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the...

An "exhilarating" (Chicago Tribune) selection of Jack Kerouac's most personal, truthful, and mesmerizing letters that trace his life and craft-edited by Ann Charters "As we just now begin to map...

In this biography of Frederick the Great, Nancy Mitford carefully unravels the complex character of one of Europe's brilliant rulers. She re-creates his unhappy youth; his reforming zeal, which paved...

'I do not see how there could be a more insightful, more erudite, biography of this remarkable man' Doris Lessing, Times Literary Supplement Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography,...

'A masterpiece of biographical investigation' Richard Holmes In 1593, the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady,...

'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a chance something magic can happen, that's what keeps us coming back...' In A Man Walks On to a Pitch,...

A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep research Readers around...

Cleopatra is wreathed by so many outsized myths that it is sometimes difficult to tell the woman from the legend. For centuries, historians have scarcely deviated from the occidental, Horatian...

'Before the sixties, you were a child and then you were a man. You went to school and then you went to work. That changed. Our generation changed it.' Roger...

THE KEYNES MUTINY explores the secrets behind the incredible stockmarket success of John Maynard Keynes. Keynes - the acclaimed economist, statesman and writer - was one of the few men...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark 'Billy' Billingham. They are the backbone of the British military and I...

WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the...

Beatrice was the last child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and while Victoria came to depend on her absolutely, she also demanded...

Discovering the man behind the legend 'Conversations with Bradman were, like his batting, never dull and often unpredictable.' - From the Introduction In 1995, journalist and author Roland Perry wrote...

You don't fall in love with an alcoholic - you fall in love with a man. At least at first. Why do women fall for 'damaged' men? Why do women...

Edwin Flack (1873–1935) was Australia's first Olympic competitor and gold medalist, famously nicknamed the "Lion of Athens" for his dominant performance at the inaugural 1896 Athens Games. An accountant and...

This book identifies Anthony Blunt as not the fourth man but the first man, who recruited everyone else into the net, but managed to convince his interviewers that he was...

'At once so personal, yet utterly universal. A visceral, thoughtful and emotionally compelling story.' Melissa Leong In a beautifully crafted memoir of captivating emotional honesty, the SBS Insight host sets...

When Tom O'Toole was a poor kid in Tocumwal, a small New South Wales border town that was going backwards, he used to watch the Murray River fingering its way...

Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but, aged seventeen, she moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. Then in...

What qualities enabled George Washington-celebrated as the 'father of his country'-to lead a sometimes ramshackle army to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then serve with distinction as the...

The explosive inside story of the Royal Family over the last twenty years from Diana to now, from the bestselling author of The Diana Chronicles 'Impeccable sources, historical heft and...

Clarissa was born into wealth and privilege, as a child, shooting and hunting were the norm and pigeons were flown in from Cairo for supper. Her mother was an Australian...

MY SPIN ON CRICKET tells the story of the great game through the ages, through personal anecdotes and a lively, well informed narrative by Richie Benaud, the popular cricket commentator...

With a sudden jerk, squealing of brakes and a loud puff of the steam engine, the train shunted forward ... I stared out the window as we slowly pulled out...

Originally published as Double Agent Snow, Hitler's Spyis the paperback edition, which tells of how on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War the double-agent Arthur Owens,...

(This book is a parody and is not authorised by the Estate of Winston S. Churchill) THE PERFECT GIFT FOR DADS THIS FATHER'S DAY Dear Winston, We've just started our...

In 2013 Lynda Bellingham was diagnosed with cancer. Having kept the details of her illness private, now for the very first time Lynda talks with beautiful poignancy about her life...

An intimate, authorized yet totally frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925-2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century The product...

Judy Parkinson combines an accurate and impressive knowledge with extensive research to produce an authoritative account of the private and public life of an extraordinary man. Chronicling his childhood, teenage...

Nomad is a philosophical memoir, telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new life, and the difficulties she faced in reconciling her two worlds. With...