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My Wild Life - Adventures of a Wildlife Photographer by Suzi Eszterhas
$29.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
As a young girl, Suzi Eszterhas knew she wanted to be a wildlife photographer. But how did she go from snapping pictures of cats in her backyard to taking photos of cheetah cubs in Kenya? In this nonfiction picture-book biography, Eszterhas invites readers to find out what her life is like behind the le ...Show more
Edward Elgar - Music, Life and Landscapes by Suzie Grogan; Christopher Grogan
$75.00 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
More perhaps than any other composer, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) has gained the status of an 'icon of locality, ' his music seemingly inextricably linked to the English landscape in which he worked. This, the first full-length study of Elgar's complex interaction with his physical environment, explores ho ...Show more
Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
$35.00 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
President-elect Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. 'I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.' - Joe B ...Show more
Kusama : A Graphic Biography by Elisa Macellari
$29.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir | Series: Graphic Lives Ser.
From rural Japan to international icon Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art. Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual ...Show more
Will by Will Self
$22.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Unflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt, and propelled by an exceptional energy, Will is the long-awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. A portrait of the artist as a young addict, Will is one of the most eloquent and u ...Show more
Edward Van Halen - A Definitive Biography by Kevin Dodds
$72.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
In July of 1984, Edward Van Halen was the most popular musician in the world in the most popular band in the world-the band that to this day bears his own surname. As a 12-year-old, author Kevin Dodds experienced his first Van Halen concert, and it changed his life. In this biography, Dodds takes a comp ...Show more
The Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Lowthian Bell
$60.95 AUD
Category: biography & memoir | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor Ser.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, a ...Show more
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
$35.00 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into being 'Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refu ...Show more
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans a popular bestseller and a critically acclaimed history of China that opened up the country to the world. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family-the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother, and the d ...Show more
My Friend the Mercenary - A Memoir by James Brabazon
$19.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
"Intensely vivid story of war and the peculiar breed of warriors who fight in 21st-century Africa . . . and tribute to an extraordinary comrade-at-arms." --Kirkus Reviews In February 2002, British journalist James Brabazon set out to travel with guerrilla forces into Liberia to show the world what was ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives by Robert Dessaix
$26.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir | Reading Level: Adult
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$32.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman 'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald 'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree 'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell 'I was entrance ...Show more