Biography

A classic among Australian autobiographies, The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony is Hal Porter's masterpiece. Recreating the rhythms of small-town life between the wars, it covers the author's first two...

The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance...

The name Gaze brings to mind one of Australia's most successful sporting families. For decades Lindsay Gaze has been an integral part of Australian basketball, from player to coach, from...

Collected here are twenty of Nikola Tesla's essays, letters, and speeches all with figures. In total there are some 214 figures. Now you can read these famous articles as they...

The book titled Dragonflyers Dragonflyers: Prominent Expatriates' Influential Roles in by the author Christine Velde. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population. Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking...

The fighter, the activist, the man, the icon. An officially authorized collection, Muhammad Ali Unfiltered is Jeter Publishing's intimate look at one of the most inspiring figures of our age....

This is a revealing book covering fascinating inside stories of the effect of fame and fortune of young people raised in Hollywood, and their lives in the spotlight as stars...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail and Magpie 'Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure' Stylist 'A beautiful timely and humane book' Alain de...

Acknowledged as having the most important and admirable post-presidential career in the nations history, Carter recounts his adventures over the last 25 years, including founding the Carter Center and his...

The book titled Travels with Grandma by the author Toby Richards. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) - VSP as he was affectionately known - was the greatest British short-story writer of the twentieth century, and one of its liveliest and most humane...

'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' - Grayson Perry This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to...

THE BOOK BEHIND THE VIRAL TUCKER CARLSON INTERVIEW An inspiring survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke...

In May 2012, Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling...

When Friend died in 1989, he left over 40 volumes of his diary. Now, the National Library has embarked on a major publishing project to to realise his wish that...

Flora Fraser gives us the fascinating story of a mismatched Prince and Princess of Wales, married in 1795 and separated less than a year later. George III arranged the marriage...

Fusing criticism and biography, this work offers insight into the life and work of America's pre-eminent living artist. Assigned to write a review of Jasper Johns's "The Seasons", a series...

Pearl Lowe has been a singer in a hugely successful pop group, a fashion model and a friend to some of the most famous people in the country. In the...

The book titled Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder by the author Gitta Sereny. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

"Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us-the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived." - Sasha Velour This book is a...

The first to indicate that Du Maurier had bi sexual tendencies, this book depicts a woman far removed fro m the ''Queen of Romance'' described in the tabloid obituaries ....

Tarana Burke and Dr. Brene Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artists, academics and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives...

Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving...

Henri Peyre (1901-1988), a giant figure in French studies, did more to introduce Americans to the modern literature and culture of French than any other person. Sterling Professor and chair...

New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint...

"Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and beyond respectability. I and so many Black girls still...

In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking...

Few people have packed as much into life as George Harris, who has experienced just about every challenge possible: a prisoner of the Japanese at Changi and on the Burma...

Sam Sheridan, a university graduate and former US Merchant Marine, always had a taste for adventure. So when he found himself in Australia, loaded with cash and intent on spending...

The book titled Dear Maeve by the author Maeve Binchy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A vivid blow-by-blow of the controversies that have wracked the Catholic Church during the past twenty yearsLiberation theology, birth control, women's ordination, inclusive language, "radical feminism," homosexuality, religious pluralism, human...

The unauthorized biography of one of this century's most remarkable and glamorous women - Pamela Harriman, currently US ambassador to France. Perhaps best known for shepherding the Deocratic party through...

The book titled Duty of Care by the author Steve Pratt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The enthralling account, by the leader of the French expedition, of the first conquest of Annapurna - at that time, and at more than 8000 metres, the highest mountain ever...

This brave and honest tale will captivate you from beginning to end, as Veronica Sherman reveals her unconventional path through life. Craving meaning and adventure, Veronica moves from Sweden, Jerusalem,...

Gough Whitlam- A Moment in History is a magnificent biography that illuminates the path that took one man to power. This moment was not his alone, nor could it ever...

The book titled Armand Hammer: The Untold Story by the author Steve Weinberg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual -- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth I was to...

I am the statistic that I read about. I am the thing I always feared most. I am rape. That morning, Michelle had presented her psychology thesis on rape. It...

Some plants have sustained empires and sparked wars. Some have ignited public outrage. Think tea, opium, tulips and thistles. Yes, thistles. In 1852 South Australia passed its Thistle Act, probably...

StellaPrize long-listed author Sonya Voumard's Skinin the Game is original, incisive, and hugely entertaining. The daughter of a European refugee mother and ajournalist father, Voumard recounts with aplomb her passionate...

'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its combination of erudition, warmth, robustness, and wit is entirely...

'A brilliantly candid, timely and perceptive account.' Andy Haldane 'Asks all the right questions.' Mark Carney Has the West gone bust? Or is there another way? In their new book,...

The 18th-century landscape garden is the only art form to have originated wholly in Britain which then went on to influence the rest of the world. Tim Richardson here tells...