Balzac's Lives by Peter Brooks
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Peter Brook's Balzac's Lives is a biography like no other, a vivid and searching portrait of the great novelist that is based on a close examination of the extraordinary characters that throng his work. More than anyone, Balzac invented the nineteenth-century novel, with its interwoven plots and diverse ...Show more
The Moon's a Balloon: The Guardian's Number One Hollywood Autobiography by David Niven
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Takes readers back to David Niven's childhood days, his humiliating expulsion from school and to his army years and wartime service. After the war, he returned to America and there came his Hollywood success in films such as "Wuthering Heights" and "Around the World in 80 Days".
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin, Li Cunxin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Before you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his scho ...Show more
The Language of Thieves - The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family's Secret History by Martin Puchner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
You might have heard the saying ‘you’re in a pickle’ meaning you’re in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs, and spoken by vagrants and refugees, merchants and thieves since the European Middl ...Show more
Working - Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Robert A. Caro, 'one of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times), is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, whose biographies are widely considered to be masterpieces.In Working he offers a captivating account of his life as a writer, describing ...Show more
The Copenhagen Trilogy - Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen; Tiina Nunnally (Translator); Michael Favala Goldman (Translator)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Copenhagen Trilogy Ser.
Called "a masterpiece" by The Guardian, this courageous and honest trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing, explores themes of family, sex, motherhood, abortion, addiction, and being an artist. This single-volume hardcover contains all three volumes of h ...Show more
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN* The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion. When he died at the age of twenty-five, having taken a batte ...Show more
No Document by Anwen Crawford
$29.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artw ...Show more
The Shapeless Unease - A Year of Not Sleeping by Samantha Harvey
$5.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psychology in a transcendent search for reality and truth. In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. Sh ...Show more
Jessie Trail: A Biography by Jo Oliver
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Jessie Traill was one of Australia's most outstanding etchers, working in a field uncommon for women of her time. This biography explores her remarkable life - as artist, traveler, humanitarian and independent spirit. From the ten-year-old who first met Tom Roberts painting on the shores of Port Phillip ...Show more
Funkytown by Paul Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Paul Kennedy's Funkytown is the vivid true story of a year in the life of a teenager leaping into manhood. It is 1993: a serial killer is loose on the streets of Frankston, Victoria. The community is paralysed by fear and a state's police force and national media come to find a killer. Meanwhile, sevent ...Show more
Nellie: The life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba by Robert Wainwright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The tumultuous life of Australia's most famous opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba. When most Australians think of Nellie Melba they picture a squarish, late middle-aged woman dressed in furs and large hats, an imperious Dame whose voice ruled the world for three decades and was the inspiration for a peach ...Show more