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My Judy Garland Life by Susie Boyt
$35.00 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, My Judy Garland Life will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or held a candle to a star. Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie Boyt's life since she was three years old, comforting, inspiring and at times disturbing her. I ...Show more
Dirk Bogarde : The authorised biography by John Coldstream
$29.95 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Official biography of the charismatic actor and bestselling author. 'Biographies only tend to be definitive until the next one comes along, but there's no danger of Coldstream's erudite, moving analysis ever being superseded' - Independent on Sunday As an actor Dirk Bogarde was a Rank contract a ...Show more
Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin by Randal Keynes
$24.95 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Annie was Charles and Emma Darwin's adored first daughter. Her death at the age of ten broke their hearts. At the time, Darwin was working secretly on his theory of evolution and the pain of his daughter's death sharpened his conviction that natural laws have nothing to do with divine intervention. But ...Show more
Country Girl by Edna O'Brien
$23.00 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."--National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was und ...Show more
Clarissa Eden by Clarissa Eden
$19.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
In 1955, at the astonishingly young age of 34, Clarissa Eden entered No. 10 Downing Street as the wife of the new Prime Minister, Anthony Eden. A renowned beauty, she was at home with her mother's Liberal intellectual circle, and mixed in her youth with the pillars of Oxford's academic community. Accor ...Show more
Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien
$24.95 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal. Everything abo ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193 ...Show more
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: My Life as a Fairy Tale by Sophia Loren
$29.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is Sophia Loren's definitive autobiography, revealing her personal journey from the hardship of her childhood in Naples to her life as a screen legend, sharing stories of work, love, and family. Each chapter begins with a letter, a document, a photograph, or object that pr ...Show more
Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir | Reading Level: very good
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more
Victoria: The Woman Who Made the Modern World (HB) by Julia Baird
$49.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen--a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of d ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
'If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind.' - The Times In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. Ther ...Show more
Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut; Ben Mckelvey
$32.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Deng Adut's family were farmers in South Sudan when a brutal civil war altered his life forever. At six years old, his mother was told she had to give him up to fight. At the age most Australian children are starting school , Deng was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He began a harsh ...Show more