A Brilliant Life : My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Rachelle Unreich
34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around ...Show more
All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Steven Gaines, Peter Brown
34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing ...Show more
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
75.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) an ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond by Henry Winkler
36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Henry Winkler, launched into prominence by his role as 'The Fonz' in the beloved TV series "Happy Days", has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny and widely regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the case, he's ju ...Show more
Crazy Bastard A memoir of forced adoption by Abraham Maddison
39.95 AUD
Category: Biographies
Derek Pedley abandons his 30-year journalism career on the brink of a breakdown, haunted by addiction, compulsion and obsession, and carrying the heavy baggage of a boy who found his adoption papers at 15. When an anguished letter his mother wrote almost half a century earlier arrives five years after h ...Show more
Dogs Are My Family by 'Red' Catherine Johns
36.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
"For 75 years I have lived with many dogs, mostly rescued dogs. Dogs are my heart and in my soul, they are my loves and my companions and have been with me since my father first took me home after my birth and put me with the dogs in a playpen with the cushions all around to keep me safe and warm, to fe ...Show more
Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life by Kristine Philipp
36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office chick, shit-kicker, donkey worker, general dogsbody or gofer (go for this, go for that). Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life is the hilarious ...Show more
Grace Kelly: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon by Megan Hess
42.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
Grace Kelly: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon is a stunning illustrated biography of style and screen legend Grace Kelly, from internationally renowned fashion illustrator Megan Hess. Oscar-winning actress, muse to one of the greatest directors of all time, global fashion icon and European pri ...Show more
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
55.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
Hilltop Hoods' the Calling 33 1/3 by Dianne Rodger; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
The success of the Hip-Hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of Hip-Hop in Australia. It launched a formerly 'underground' scene into the spotlight, radically transforming the group members' lives and creating new opportunities for other Hip-Hop artists. Thi ...Show more
Home to Biloela: The Story of the Tamil Family that Captured Our Hearts by Priya Nadesalingam, Rebekah Holt
34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The dramatic inside story of the Tamil refugee family which became a cause clbre all around Australia, and the epic fight by a small rural community to set them free. It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumping on the front door signalled the start of a four-year odyssey that would ca ...Show more