The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile. Fusing detec ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: The Boy from Nowhere by Andrew Rule
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The inspirational, bestselling story of the rags to riches life of Kerry Stokes. Kerry Stokes is a remarkable Australian. Not because he is one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful people, but because of what he overcame to get there and because he has endured when others didn't. His success and ...Show more
The Queen by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous critical and commercial success, turns his clear eye to our own Queen, Elizabeth II, as she turns 90. In this unusual and vibrant examination of the life and times of Britain's most iconic living f ...Show more
Kick: The True Story of JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever – and forgotten – Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and quick-witted, her charm was legendary and with her ...Show more
Guantanamo: My Journey by David Hicks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1999 a young man from suburban Adelaide set out on an overseas trip that would change his life forever. Initially, he was after adventure and the experience of travelling the Silk Road. But events would set him on a different path. He would be deemed a terrorist, one of George W Bush's 'worst of the ...Show more
A Gift of Love - How to Care for Loved Ones and Share in Their Last Days by Tony Cointreau
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I wrote A Gift of Love because people kept asking me to do so, telling me that there was a great need for it. Perhaps it was their parents who were dying, or another family member, or a close friend, and they needed to know what they could do for their loved ones in those last weeks, days, or hours. Th ...Show more
The People Smuggler: The True Story of One Man's Journey by Crespigny Robin De
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
After his father, brother and he were incarcerated and tortured in Saddam's Abu Ghraib, Ali al Jenabi escaped from Iraq first to work with the anti-Saddam resistance in Iran and then to help his family out of the country all together. When Saddam's forces advance towards their refugee camp, Ali helps hi ...Show more
Clarkson: The Gloves Are Off by Gwen Russell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Did he really punch his producer? Was the 'Falklands-gate' license plate deliberate? And more importantly...does anybody really, honestly care? Jeremy Clarkson is a national treasure and with almost three quarters of a million signatures on the Bring Back Clarkson petition, the nation has spoken: they w ...Show more
This is Gail by Gail O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An inspiring story of one woman's journey through heartbreaking loss to renewal and new purpose. In 2008, inspirational surgeon and Lifehouse cancer centre founder Chris O'Brien published his bestselling memoir of his battle with brain cancer, NEVER SAY DIE. But he wasn't the only person in the O'Brien ...Show more
My Son is Not Rainman by John Williams
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
My Son's Not Rainman is a heartfelt and uplifting account of everyday events in the life of John and his son (The Boy). The Boy is twelve years old and autistic. He isn't a genius. His only special power is making his dad laugh. A lot. Following the success of his blog, John talks not just about the di ...Show more
How (Not) to Start an Orphanage by Tara Winkler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How could it be wrong to save the children by starting an orphanage? Oh, in so many ways . . . Tara Winkler first arrived in Cambodia to join a tour group in 2005 and was taken to visit a small orphanage in Battambang. The children were living in extreme poverty, and Tara was determined to raise money t ...Show more
Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work by Kitty Ferguson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given a couple of years to live. In January 2017 he celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday. This biography of the brilliant theoretical physicist and inspirational international celebrity, written with the help of Hawking himself and his close associates, now includes: his lea ...Show more