{"product_id":"secondhand-biography-bargain-book-box-sp2998","title":"Secondhand Biography Bargain Book Box SP2998","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Biography Bargain Book Box SP2998\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEighteen hardback biographies, nearly all with jackets: David Marr’s \u003cem\u003ePatrick White\u003c\/em\u003e, Holroyd’s Shaw, Dimbleby’s authorised Prince of Wales, Christine Wallace on Germaine Greer, Weary Dunlop’s war diaries, FitzSimons’ \u003cem\u003eKokoda\u003c\/em\u003e, Bill Hayden, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Greg Norman and Kingsford Smith. A strong Australian shelf with a few big British lives for ballast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBernard Shaw, Volume 1: The Search for Love — Michael Holroyd — Shaw from Dublin poverty to the first plays, with the mother who left and the women he pursued. The first volume of the definitive life, and Holroyd’s best writing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreer: Untamed Shrew — Christine Wallace — The unauthorised biography Greer tried to stop, from the Melbourne convent school to The Female Eunuch. Wallace got the story anyway.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHayden: An Autobiography — Bill Hayden — Policeman, Labor leader deposed on the day of the 1983 election, foreign minister, Governor-General. He’s frank about Hawke and about the day it was taken from him.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBride of an Anzac: My Life Story — Queenie Sunderland — A war bride’s memoir, told plainly, from a woman who lived to see a century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Line of Fire — Rex Sadler \u0026amp; Tom Hayllar — Australians at war in their own words, Gallipoli to Vietnam. Letters and diaries, not generals.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prince of Wales: A Biography — Jonathan Dimbleby — The authorised 1994 biography in which Charles admitted the affair and said he’d been pushed into the marriage. The book that made the news.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlenn McGrath: Line and Strength — Glenn McGrath with Daniel Lane — Narromine to 563 Test wickets, and Jane’s illness. More honest than most cricket books.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatrick White: A Life — David Marr — The Nobel laureate’s whole life, written with White’s cooperation and published after his death: the wartime affairs, Manoly, the feuds, the novels. Widely called the best Australian biography ever written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChadwick: A Man of Many Parts — Nick Richardson — Sir Albert Chadwick, chairman of the MCC and the man who ran Melbourne cricket for decades. Foreword by Michael Happell.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Captain’s Diary: My First Year — Ricky Ponting \u0026amp; Brian Murgatroyd — The 2004 season, match by match, from the new Australian captain.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeoffrey Dutton: Out in the Open — Geoffrey Dutton — The poet, publisher and founder of Australian Letters on his wealthy childhood, the war, Penguin Australia and the Adelaide scene. Candid about everyone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne and Horatio Gates — Max M. Mintz — The two commanders at the battle that turned the American Revolution, in a dual biography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreg Norman: The Way of the Shark — Greg Norman with Donald T. Phillips — Lessons on golf, business and life, and the 1996 Masters collapse from the inside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmithy: The Life of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith — Ian Mackersey — The Pacific crossing, the fame, the drinking and the disappearance over the Andaman Sea in 1935. The standard biography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKokoda — Peter FitzSimons — The track, the Japanese advance, and the militia boys who held them. The number-one bestseller that put Kokoda back in the national story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Biographer’s Tale — A.S. Byatt — A novel, not a biography: a postgraduate abandons theory to write the life of a biographer and finds the facts won’t cooperate. Byatt playing with the form.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScrew Business as Usual — Richard Branson — Branson’s argument that doing good is good business, with Virgin examples. Hardback.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe War Diaries of Weary Dunlop — E.E. Dunlop — Java and the Burma–Thailand Railway, 1942–45, kept in secret at risk of death. One of the great Australian documents of the war. Penguin hardback.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620008464603,"sku":"SP2998","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2998.jpg?v=1791863347","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-biography-bargain-book-box-sp2998","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}