Biography

'Ben Alldis is a force. His attitude and drive are contagious.' - Max La Manna, author of You Can Cook This! 'This is more than a self-help book, it is...

What if you followed your heart to a life that made you truly happy? When her daughter Emmie was 6 years old, Evie Farrell left her corporate career, sold or...

As a child of a British air force family, Barbara was troubled by the absence of a stable home-life, a difficult relationship with her father, and too many school changes...

Getting roughed up by Islamic fundamentalists, the weekly "feline sex-fest" in Kyiv, bribing Russian police to avoid jail in Mos-cow, sheltering under the sink (with the lizards) when the ammo...

The must-read memoir of the end of a marriage and the start of a personal revolution, based on the iconic 'Modern Love' essay in the New York Times and perfect...

Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out - three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her...

Being inspired to act can take many forms. For some it's taking a weekend to volunteer, but for Shannon Galpin, it meant leaving her career, selling her house, launching a...

The course of one's life never unfolds quite as we imagine it would. While traveling to gain perspective on her life, Mony, a Lebanese-Canadian woman feels called to walk an...

My Pilgrim's Heart is a beautifully written story about simultaneous journeys: a woman's pilgrimage across the landscapes of Italy and Eastern Europe and a marriage on the line. At 48,...

A devastating fire prompts the bestselling author of Narrow Dog to Carcassonne to go on a meandering and very funny narrow boat journey north and look back on his rather...

A striking and sympathetic portrait of England's first Queen, Mary I - whose character has been vilified for over 400 years. Instead of the bloodthirsty bigot of Protestant mythology, Mary...

"Because life is short and we've still got places to see." Four years after their last global journey - and with cancer, recovery, and lockdowns finally behind them - Emma...

Rosemary Bailey's enthralling account of her quest to make a 21st century home out of a ruined French medieval monastery. 'I wake to the sun striking gold on a stone...

Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighbourhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. He strutted around with a short perm, a...

The book titled Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by the author Claire Tomalin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A captivating story set in India's vibrant landscape. Explores love, culture, and personal transformation. Rich in evocative descriptions and historical depth. A must-read for lovers of immersive storytelling.

Brilliant, funny, powerfully evocative - the young English author of Duende! and his Spanish wife set out to create a magical garden high in remote Spanish mountains. Jason Webster had...

A Times Book of the Year 'Most underrated group? World of Twist.' - LIAM GALLAGHER 'They're a top band. No one could do what World of Twist do, except World...

My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can...

For Keeps takes us into the world of Melbourne zookeeper Noel Harcourt and all the unique and often unpredictable personalities both human and non-human he encountered over the decades of...

SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A...

"Truth is always stranger than fiction... A stunning, riveting and extraordinary real-life story of life in the shadows." #1 International Bestselling Author Don Winslow The gripping true story, that reads...

When Will Boast's father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief. Everything he thought he knew about his parents...

'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend Australian Having lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space...

In this "irresistible" memoir "as compelling and rousing as a NASA liftoff" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys takes us deeper into the...

The acclaimed one-volume biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, praised by Doris Kearns Goodwin as "brilliant...a magnificently readable saga."

The literary love child of Nora Ephron and Jenny Lawson, Una LaMarche shares her hilarious take on life, love, and growing up hairy. In between highbrow and lowbrow, there's Unabrow....

'Raw, provocative, chaotic, and - dare I say - slutty' COLLEEN HOOVER A thrilling memoir by The White Lotus and Euphoria actor, Lukas Gage, which chronicles his upbringing in a...

The intriguing story of how wireless was invented by Guglielmo Marconi - and how it amused Queen Victoria, saved the lives of the Titanic survivors, tracked down criminals and began...

After a decade of living with panic attacks and anxiety, Tim Clare made a promise to himself - he would try everything he could to get better, every method and...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS Reuben, aged 38, was living in a home for...

This new American uniform - the baseball cap, t-shirt, shorts and trainers (why not a scooter?) is not about looking good. It's about disappearing into a new, unofficial, global army...

The #1 hit movie on Netflix starring Kevin Hart, based on the courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of the author's life following the birth of his...

Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we...

ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A "warm, funny, and honest...genuinely unputdownable" memoir (Curtis Sittenfeld) chronicling what it's like to live in today's world as a fat man....

'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth Day What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years on...

'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest actor appearing in the world right now' - A....

A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980s Sequins for a Ragged Hem narrates Johnson's return tour...

In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour , Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Destined to become an adventure classic." - Anchorage Daily News Hailed as "gripping" ( New York Time s) and "beautiful" ( Washington Post ) , The Adventurer's Son...

Author: Edited By Caroline Turner And Roger BenjaminBinding: PaperbackPublished: Queensland Art Gallery; Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis...

Author: Otto Preston ChaneyBinding: PaperbackPublished: David & Charles, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical biography chronicles the extraordinary life...

Author: Trenerry, Elizabeth | Ian Potter Museum of ArtBinding: PaperbackPublished: Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 2000Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown...

Author: -Binding: PaperbackPublished: National Gallery of Victoria; Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageUnknown

Author: Caroline Turner And Roger BenjaminBinding: PaperbackPublished: Queensland Art Gallery; Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling art...

Author: Natalie Queiroz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Natalie Queiroz was eight months pregnant when she was stabbed by her partner in the most vicious attack imaginable. In the...

Author: Doddie Weir Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'You will laugh, and you will cry.' The extraordinary, life-affirming autobiography of rugby legend DODDIE WEIR. There has never been anyone...