Frida Kahlo by Gannit Ankori
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Critical Lives
Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was 22; he was 43. Hailed as Rivera's exotic young wife who 'dabbles in art', she went on to produce brilliant paintings, but remained in her husband's shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six dec ...Show more
Ghosts by Daylight: A Memoir of War and Love by Janine di Giovanni
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Janine and Bruno first fell in love as young reporters in the besieged city of Sarajevo. Years later - after endless phone calls, much of what the French call malentendu, secret trysts in foreign cities, numerous break-ups, three miscarriages, countless stories of rebel armies and a dozen wars that had ...Show more
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In this instantand tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight "offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh" (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one o ...Show more
The Dogs That Made Australia by Guy Hull
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Hunter. Worker. Legend. The untold story of the dog's role in building a nation. The Dogs That Made Australia pays tribute to the dogs that gave their all for our prosperity: the fearless hounds that saved fledgling colonies from famine; the courageous heelers and tireless collies that powered the rise ...Show more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: The international bestseller, soon to be a major Stan series by Heather Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival-literally scratching numbers into his fell ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 68: Without America: Australia in the New Asia by Hugh White
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Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay
America is fading, and China will soon be the dominant power in our region. What does this mean for Australia's future? In this controversial and urgent essay, Hugh White shows that the contest between America and China is classic power politics of the harshest kind. He argues that we are heading for a ...Show more
In Extremis - The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** 'It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.' Marie Colvin, 2001 Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a trou ...Show more
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Jonathan Bate (University of Warwick)
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and ecology; of fishing and beasts in brooding landscapes.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a sou ...Show more
My Life And The Beautiful Music by Hotten Jon
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Los Angeles, 1988. In a summer of hedonism, everyone wants their share. On Sunset Strip, undiscovered bands dream of emulating their heroes- M tley Cr e, Van Halen, Poison and all the other chancers who got lucky... Above them in the canyons, the city's privileged youth already live like rock stars. Dr ...Show more
The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light by Carlos Santana
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
An intimate account by the rock music artist traces his hardscrabble youth in Mexico and early days as a promising guitarist through his influential collaborations with fellow Latin stars.
Revolution in the Head: the Beatles records and the Sixties (3rd edition 2008) by Ian MacDonald
$27.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis, Blur and Kula Shaker. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world. Fully updated to ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Ira B. Nadel
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Critical Lives
Featuring new details about Virginia Woolf's homes and personal life, this engaging biography offers a fresh insight into her work, focusing on how place as much as imagination fashioned her writing. Drawing on her letters, journals, diaries, autobiographical essays and fiction, it reveals Woolf's respo ...Show more