Biography

Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...

Like the best true life adventures, the story of Werner Pelz is stranger than fiction. Forced to flee Nazi Germany for being Jewish, he was then interned in England for...

In this age of lunchtime lifts, wrinkle-erasing injections, furrow fillers, and lip plumpers, there's no question that anyone who aims to look younger easily can. But Lauren Kessler wants something...

The book titled Jackie after Jack: Portrait of the Lady by the author Christopher Andersen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For the first year of his solitary confinement in Beirut, Terry Waite was given nothing to read. During those days, not only did he write his autobiography in his head,...

A beautiful book celebrating rural life in France and the simple luxuries of good food, wine and friendship, by the author of the bestselling The Ripening Sun. How often have...

Lamps, penknives, paperbacks, mechanical pencils, inflatable headrests. Marcin Wicha's mother Joanna was a collector of everyday objects. She found intrinsic - and often idiosyncratic - value in each item. When...

We've all been there: one minute you're in a loving relationship, or maybe just on your third date with a guy who's not too weird, the next minute you've been...

A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017...

Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on? In Small Fires , Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking -...

Australia's Test Cricket Captain in conversation with remarkable leaders and achievers - from Julia Gillard to Dennis Lillee. Finalist at the Australian Business Book Awards - Leadership Category 2025 When...

The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure...

The book titled Sorrow Mountain: the Remarkable Story of a Tibetan Warrior Nun: The by the author Ani Pachen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

At the time of his death from cancer on 1 March 2001, journalist and broadcaster John Diamond had completed six chapters of what was to be "an uncomplimentary look at...

" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America." " - Publishers Weekly "[These contributions] touch on so many different...

An award-winning journalist tells her haunting family story. Diana Wichtel was born in Vancouver. Her mother was a New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew who had jumped off a...

In the ten years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers to set out on paths they never thought...

This is the book that shows just how important PR has been in creating the media image of some of Australia's famous and powerful figures. Noel Tennison's memoir 'My Spin...

This is a personal and perceptive confrontation of racial intolerance in Scotland and notions of Englishness and Scottishness.

The book titled Beerbohm Tree: His Life and Laughter by the author Hesketh Pearson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Leon Vaudoyer (1803-1872) was, with Felix Duban, Henri Labrouste and Louis Duc, one of the "romantic" beaux-arts architects who challenged both the authority and the philosophy of the French Academy...

Three men made art modern: Henry Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. And yet while Picasso and Matisse have been justly celebrated, Braque has remained eclipsed and elusive, rarely recognised...

"Penguin Illustrated Lives" is a series of photographic biographies that offers a fresh, intimate portrait of some of our favourite writers. An incisive, lively text is accompanied by over 100...

The book titled The Archaeology Of V Gordon Childe by the author Harris, David R. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods' magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation-a show...

The National Portrait Gallery's "Character Sketches" series provides biographical sketches of a specific group of historical figures from the Gallery's collection of portraits. Each volume examines the public images and...

Peter Purves Smith in the early 1940s was considered one of Australia's three most promising young artists (the others were his friend Russell Drysdale and the Sydney painter William Dobell)....

Capa, a Hungarian, was driven from his country by political oppression and became the greatest war photographer of his generation with his work during the Spanish Civil War. His work...

The book titled Cider with Rosie by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For fans of books like Waiter Rant , and all those who have always wondered how the other half lives, comes this heartfelt, laugh-out-loud memoir from a New York City...

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...

The book also recounts her activities as a "ghostbuster" and exorcist, and includes stories of a haunted inn, the Drury Lane Theatre in London, a haunted theme park, and sightings...

Nightime Meditations for Peace of Mind.

This volume traces the life and artistic career of Charles Le Brun (1619-1690), First Painter to King Louis XIV. Drawing largely on the publications and documents of the time, the...

Is there a calling within you to step into your power? This book provides you with the inspiration, motivation and practical advice to show up as a leader and take...

The book titled Michelangelo: His Life, Work and Times by the author Linda Murray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"VIETNAM My Great Escape" takes you on a journey through war torn Vietnam to the streets of Melbourne. From peasant refugee to millionairess with all the twist and turns that...

"You're studying to be a lawyer then...?" "No, not a lawyer either! "Not a doctor, not a lawyer, then maybe a businessman? You want to go into business. You'll be...

'Down Under' made Men at Work the biggest band on the planet in the early 1980s. The band split soon after, but 'Down Under' never stopped working. It became an...

The book titled The Terry Lamb Story by the author Whiticker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The author's captivating account of how she and husband Graeme Blundell dropped out with style. Exchanging the soy milk lattes and eternal traffic snarls of the city for the delights...

A celebration of the positive by a well-known travel writer, this autobiography sets forth the author's views on the pleasure principle, among many other things. Jan Morris has written and...

The book titled Marches Past by the author Peter Fuller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by the author Sebastian Faulks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante by the author Lily Tuck. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.