The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Praise for Corey White's stand-up- 'Captivating' Tom Gleeson 'It's a spiritually enriching show. Whitey has safer hands than Gilchrist circa 2003 ... Strap in for this one, it's a harrowing little number that leaves you in a good mood, quite a feat.' Herald Sun 'Corey White runs the full gamut of human ...Show more
A Life on the Line (MICA Flight Paramedic) by DARREN. HODGE
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
When Darren Hodge was a kid, a big, white, sleek ambulance squatted like a lion in the driveway next door, always ready to go, and sometimes it did, roaring down the street. Today, he is a MICA Flight Paramedic with decades of varied experience in 'a life of extremes' in an Australian ambulance service. ...Show more
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics by Jim Morrison; Tom Robbins (Foreword by)
$69.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks.Created in collaboration with Jim Morrison’s estate and inspired by a posthumously discovered list entitled “Pla ...Show more
On Air (HB) by Mike Carlton
$45.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Mike Carlton was born to controversy. His father Jimmy, a renowned Olympic athlete and later a Catholic priest, married his mother after a whirlwind wartime courtship. This scandal was hushed up at first, but eventually it made headlines. Six years later, Jimmy Carlton died in his wife?s arms, felled by ...Show more
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
$39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
As a student in Melbourne, Elizabeth Kleinhenz heard frequent talk of this almost mythical figure, Germaine Greer. Urged on by her mother, a first wave feminist, she read The Female Eunuch, a clarion call that rallied women to assert their female power,and, like her mother and millions of others across ...Show more
Little Me The A-Z of Matt Lucas by Matt Lucas
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
This is the story of little me, from pudgy, awkward child to pudgy, slightly less awkward adult - via school musicals, adolescent angst, stand-up,Shooting Stars,Little Britain,Doctor Who, love, loss, wigs and giant pink babygros. And, in case your attention span is as short as mine, it comes in a handy ...Show more
Lionel Logue: The King's Mentor by Norman C. Hutchinson
$19.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Adelaide born and educated Lionel Logue commenced as an elocutionist and Shakespearean actor in South Australia before moving to Perth where he married and had three sons. He branched out into public speaking, drama teaching and the curing of speech defects of wounded servicemen returning from the trenc ...Show more
Yellow Notebook: Diaries, 1978-1986 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Leigh Sales: "An incredible insight into the thinking and writing processes of one of the greatest writers in Australian history." Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked awa ...Show more
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré
$22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
"Recounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur -- by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr , the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the ...Show more
Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking by Catherine McCormack
$27.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A bold reconsideration of women in art - from the 'Old Masters' to the posts of Instagram influencers. A perfect pin-up, a damsel in distress, a saintly mother, a femme fatale... Women's identity has long been stifled by a limited set of archetypes, found everywhere in pictures from art history's classi ...Show more
Mary's Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao's Last Dancer by Mary Li
$22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Millions fell in love with Mao's Last Dancer. Finally here is Mary's story...The highly anticipated memoir of Australian ballerina Mary Li - and the long-awaited sequel to her husband Li Cunxin's bestselling memoir, Mao's Last Dancer.Mary's Last Dance is a powerful and uplifting memoir about chasing an ...Show more
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
$39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. 'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.' NICK CAVE On T ...Show more