Biography

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...

MITCH LARSSON LIVED THE REGULAR LIFE OF A MARRIED FATHER, UNTIL A SNAP DECISION MADE IN HIS FORTIES CHANGED HIS LIFE AND THE LIVES OF MANY WOMEN... Time for Her...

Being Peta provides a brave, honest firsthand account by a young person of what it's like to live with leukaemia. It is a book that will provide comfort and companionship...

Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers - Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with...

In his latest collection, Ryle brings together the best cock and bull stories from the local pub, the sale yard, the track and his own remarkable life. Have you heard...

Christine is in a purple patch of her life. Recently retired, she has big plans for the future and decides to keep a journal. This is her time: time to...

Born in rural Worcestershire in 1950, David Harwood learnt about keeping animals from an early age, before going on to study veterinary medicine at London's Royal Veterinary College. Once qualified,...

Author: Keith DunstanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Australia Post, 2008Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMoonee Ponds To Broadway chronicles a delightful journey from the familiar...

Author: Robert ServiceBinding: PaperbackPublished: PAN BOOKS, 2009Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageRobert Service's Trotsky: A Biography chronicles the tumultuous life of one...

Author: Jon KrakauerBinding: PaperbackPublished: Pan Books, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageInto The Wild chronicles the compelling true story of Christopher McCandless,...

Author: Cécile BerlyBinding: PaperbackPublished: ART LYS, 2013Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageCécile Berly's Marie-Antoinette's Versailles chronicles the opulent and ultimately tragic life...

Everyone can run. It is the simplest of sports, requiring only a pair of trainers and the open road. Its simplicity is part of its beauty. But why do we...

Author: Wal Stubbings And Lesley SyngeBinding: PaperbackPublished: Zing Stories, 2017Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image A wandering storyteller crosses paths with a...

Author: Jarryd Roughead With Peter HanlonBinding: PaperbackPublished: VIKING an imprint of PENGUIN BOOKS, 2021Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageRoughy: The Autobiography chronicles...

A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser. A jaw-dropping story of...

When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she...

WHAT HAVE WE HERE? follows Billy Dee Williams from his childhood growing up in Harlem to his days on Broadway and in Hollywood before landing the role in George Lucas'...

Author: J.J.KenneallyBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Kelly Gang Publishing Company, 1969Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased, worn and faded cover. Internally...

Author: Harry SeidlerBinding: PaperbackPublished: Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageInternment: The Diaries Of Harry Seidler May 1940 -...

When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their...

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...

Author: Todd Brandow And William A. EwingBinding: PaperbackPublished: FEP Editions, 2007Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive volume chronicles the extraordinary career...

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

Author: James GowanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Academy Editions., 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some bumps to edges of cover.This architectural study presents a comprehensive overview of...

Author: A. Stuart Gray FribaBinding: PaperbackPublished: Gerald Duckworth, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis authoritative reference work chronicles the lives...

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.

The book titled Memoirs by the author Alexandre Benois. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Rover ThomasBinding: PaperbackPublished: Heytesbury Pty. Ltd., 2003Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageI Want To Paint presents a compelling look into the...

Author: W Edward Mann And Edward HoffmanBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling biography, The Man Who Dreamed Of Tomorrow:...

Author: Margaret MeadBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling memoir chronicles the formative experiences and intellectual awakening of a pioneering...

A monk's chronicle offers a record of life and events in 13th-century England and further afield. Colour reproductions of the original manuscript decorations add to the detail.

'I'm not going to tell you that everything happens for a reason. Those words are cold comfort in any traumatic moment. This is what I will say, though: I see...

'a controlled and literate work that earns its emotional peaks' - Saturday Paper 'a delight' - The Australian A memoir about staying in one place, told through trees, by the...

Author: Lama Anagarika GovindaBinding: PaperbackPublished: RiderCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis profound spiritual memoir, The Way Of The White Clouds: A Buddhist...

Author: Alan MooreheadBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical account chronicles Charles Darwin's transformative five-year voyage aboard HMS...

Author: Carlo PedrettiBinding: PaperbackPublished: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly volume presents an unparalleled collection of Leonardo da...

Author: Lucy ArcherBinding: PaperbackPublished: THE CYGNET PRESS, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLucy Archer's Raymond Erith Architect presents a comprehensive account of...

As a senior Macquarie Bank executive, Bill Moss AM built a global business in real estate finance, development and funds management that stretched across five continents, creating thousands of jobs...

The author, Bob Phillips, commencedhis career in showbiz as a carnival hand, worked as a spool boy and projectionist for Hoyts and then moved to television to become Graham Kennedy's...

Seeking ways to understand her chosen continent better, Belinda Probert bought a rural property outside of Melbourne to observe the land more closely and learn how to garden differently. How...

Author: Christopher HibbertBinding: PaperbackPublished: TSP, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased cover. Christopher Hibbert's Wellington: A Personal History chronicles the life...

The dramatic, harrowing, yet ultimately inspiring account of the Cleveland kidnappings, and the struggle to survive years of horrendous abuse, as told by two of the victims. 'We have written...

Author: David P. JordanBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of California Press, 1981Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical account chronicles the dramatic legal...

Author: Virginia SpateBinding: PaperbackPublished: Lansdowne Australian Art Library, Melbourne, 1978Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. This scholarly volume presents a comprehensive examination...

Author: Ann GalballyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Lansdowne Press, 1979Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis authoritative biography Arthur Streeton chronicles the life and artistic contributions...

Author: Kelly GellatlyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2001Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling volume chronicles the life and artistic...