Biography

Sort by:
Weizmann: His Life and Times

Weizmann: His Life and Times

$25.00 AUD
Author: H. M. Blumbergbinding: HardbackPublished: St. Martin / Robson , 1975Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book is a centenary portrait of Chaim...
A Banker at Sea

A Banker at Sea

$25.00 AUD
Author: Holtbinding: HardbackPublished: Neptune Press, 1983Condition: book: Good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: Signed with inscriptionA Banker at Sea explores the life of a banker who embarks on...
The Life of Mirabeau

The Life of Mirabeau

$25.00 AUD
Author: S. G. Tallentyrebinding: HardbackPublished: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908Condition: book: Poor, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Aging or marking, markings: Previous ownerThis book provides a detailed account of the...
Not as a Stranger

Not as a Stranger

$25.00 AUD
Author: Morton Thompsonbinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1955Condition: book: Good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Aging or marking, markings: No markingsNot as a Stranger is a powerful novel that tells the...
Christopher Brennan, a critical biography

Christopher Brennan, a critical biography

$25.00 AUD
Author: Axel Clarkbinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1980Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book provides a critical biography of Christopher Brennan, exploring his life and...
Murrow: His Life and Times

Murrow: His Life and Times

$25.00 AUD
Author: A. M. Sperberbinding: HardbackPublished: Freundlich Books, 1986Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis captivating hardcover book chronicles the journey of Edward R. Murrow, a remarkable...
The World of Earl Hines

The World of Earl Hines

$20.00 AUD
Author: Stanley Dancebinding: SoftbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: No markingsA wide-ranging, richly illustrated oral history of the great pianist's career, one...
Adelaide Ironside: The Pilgrim of Art

Adelaide Ironside: The Pilgrim of Art

$20.00 AUD
Author: Jill Poultonbinding: HardbackPublished: Hale & Iremonger, 1987Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book is a speculative biography that brings to life the story of...
Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart

Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Judith Lucy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Judith Lucy was just GREAT! Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, she was menopausal, she suspected...
Stories I Might Regret Telling You

Stories I Might Regret Telling You

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Martha Wainwright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother....
The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

$37.99 AUD$30.39 AUD
Author: Alexander Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain...
What's Your Vibe?: Tuning into your best life

What's Your Vibe?: Tuning into your best life

$49.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Too Many Reasons to Live

Too Many Reasons to Live

$44.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Full Disclosure

Full Disclosure

$39.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

$24.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Broken

Broken

$24.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
White Boy Running

White Boy Running

$22.00 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
To the Edge of the Sky

To the Edge of the Sky

$27.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson

Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson

$26.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons

A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons

$26.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America's most famous family

The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America's most famous family

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: James Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life...
Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton

Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver. Managing Expectations is a collection...
Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

$19.99 AUD$15.99 AUD
Author: Phil Mews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 1976, the hottest summer for a generation and life was perfect for the two young brothers Philip and Roger. They lived...
The Guv'nor Revealed - The Untold Story of Lenny McLean: The Untold Story of Lenny McLean

The Guv'nor Revealed - The Untold Story of Lenny McLean: The Untold Story of Lenny McLean

$19.99 AUD$15.99 AUD
Author: Anthony Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Lenny McLean - an infamous name, but forever a legend. He is arguably one of the most notorious and feared prize-fighters...
The Princess Diarist

The Princess Diarist

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Carrie Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The most talked about memoir is now available in paperback When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming...
Vain Glorious: A shameless guide for men who want to look their best

Vain Glorious: A shameless guide for men who want to look their best

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Jeremy Langmead Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "My life is a constant battle between vanity and laziness. This book has brokered the perfect peace deal!" - Graham Norton...
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly

Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly

$49.99 AUD$39.99 AUD
Author: Billy Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And...
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Billy Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life....
Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes.

Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes.

$18.99 AUD$15.19 AUD
Author: Geraint Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of...
Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at...
Motherwell: A Girlhood

Motherwell: A Girlhood

$45.00 AUD$36.00 AUD
Author: Deborah Orr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Raw, compelling, wise and tender' Dolly Alderton 'MOTHERWELL is razor-sharp, fearless and wonderful' Adam Kay 'Utterly unflinching and staggeringly good, both...
The Little Book of Bob: Everyday wisdom from Street Cat Bob

The Little Book of Bob: Everyday wisdom from Street Cat Bob

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: James Bowen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'One thing I've known about Bob from the very beginning is that he possesses a wisdom that is unusual, even in...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF...
Always Home: A Daughter's Culinary Memoir

Always Home: A Daughter's Culinary Memoir

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
Author: Fanny Singer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother - and herself - Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice...
Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Roger Mavity Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Bayley, the author of books on style, design and taste, tells the Habitat story with his customary polycultural panache . ....
The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
Author: Sheridan Morley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIAN The unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented,...
Brief Lives 3 - Newton

Brief Lives 3 - Newton

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner. Isaac Newton...
Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life

Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Hella Pick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE 'A remarkable personal journey, by one of the...
Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable

Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Zain E. Asher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A deeply moving and riveting memoir.' Arianna Huffington 'An incredible personal story.' Don Cheadle This spellbinding memoir opens with a...
The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Jodi M. Savage Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going...
George Eliot: The Last Victorian

George Eliot: The Last Victorian

$20.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
La Trobe: The Life and Times of the First Governor of Victoria

La Trobe: The Life and Times of the First Governor of Victoria

$59.95 AUD$50.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Coleridge: v. 1: Early Visions

Coleridge: v. 1: Early Visions

$19.65 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles

Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles

$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Pastor Pain: My Journey in Burnout

Pastor Pain: My Journey in Burnout

$16.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon & Henry Kendall

Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon & Henry Kendall

$44.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
David Syme: Man of the Age

David Syme: Man of the Age

$39.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...