Elizabeth: An intimate portrait from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years by Gyles Brandreth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarchThis intimate, personal biography of Queen Elizabeth II tells the story of her remarkable life, reign and times, from a perspective unlike any other. Gyles Brandreth writes the Queen's tale candidly with grace and sensitiv ...Show more
The Times The Queen and the Commonwealth: Celebrating Seven Decades of State Visits by The Times, James Owen
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Our most travelled monarch covered well over 1,000,000 miles and visited 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados, we look back at Queen Elizabeth’s most memorable Commonwealth visits. While the Commonwealth itself has endured the challenges of a changing society over the last seven ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia by Michael Adams
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crap-carrier-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous anti-hero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vaga ...Show more
Kinfolk Islands by John Burns
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Kinfolk Adventures Ser.
Join Kinfolk on a journey off the beaten track, to islands big and small, in this collection of eighteen new travel stories. Whether it’s a tour of the otherworldly landscape of Socotra in Yemen or a hike into the old growth of a Japanese forest on Yakushima, each slow travel itinerary invites you to se ...Show more
The Trials of Life - A Natural History of Animal Behaviour by David Attenborough
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. ‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the ...Show more
A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet and Disease by Shilpa Ravella
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A radical new vision of human health and illness revealing the hidden but most significant cause of death in the world today Inflammation has traditionally been thought of as the body's response to injury and foreign microbes. But as the threats we face have evolved, what if it were now the root cause ...Show more
Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On Valentine’s Day, after a night of red wine and pasta and planning for their future, Natasha Sholl and her partner Rob went to bed. A few hours later, at the age of 27, his heart stopped. Found, Wanting tells the story of Natasha’s attempt to rebuild her life in the wake of Rob’s sudden death, stumbli ...Show more
Rick Rubin: In the Studio by Jake Brown
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Chronicling record producer Rick Rubin's meteoric rise in the music industry, this authoritative book posits that he has taken greater risks than any other producer of the past 25 years. Tracing his career from Def Jam Records--founded with Russell Simmons in a New York University dorm room--to his rece ...Show more
A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back by David Hallberg
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as "the most exciting male dancer in the western world," presents a look at his artistic life--up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury th ...Show more
Time of Our Lives: Celebrating Older Women by Maggie Kirkman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Time of Our Lives presents the extraordinary lives of ordinary women in their seventies, eighties and nineties, challenging the stereotype of the helpless old woman who is nothing more than a burden. The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives led by 20 women of diverse ...Show more
Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the music of the camps to the ears of the world at last by Francesco Lotoro
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and the gulags of Stalin's Soviet Union. Between 1933, the year of the opening of the Dachau Lager in Germany, to Stalin's de ...Show more