The Brontes by Juliet Barker
$14.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imagin ...Show more
Snake Dancing by Roberta Sykes
$6.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Snake Dancing is the second volume of Roberta Sykes' three volume autobiography, Snake Dreaming.This second volume of Sykes' three-volume autobiography covers her increasing politicization and involvement in the Black movement through to an invitation from Harvard to postgraduate study. Events include h ...Show more
Return from Exile - One Woman's Journey Back to Judaism by Carol M. Orsborn
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
At midlife, a spiritually hungry author of self-help books leaves behind her professional life to enrol in divinity school and emerges unexpectedly reconnected to the Judaism she thought she had left behind. In this book Carol Matzkin Orsborn discusses her first year at divinity school, the year that tr ...Show more
M - The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearAs vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was marked by the ...Show more
Snake Hips : Belly dancing and how I found true love by Anne Thomas Soffee
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
Snake Hips follows an Arab- American woman's life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo- artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30. Her heart broken, Soffee moves back home to wallow in self- pity. There she comes across a flier advertising the usual classe ...Show more
Miss Kwa Kwa II - The Dark Side of the Braai by Stephen Simm
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
MK, the lady usually causing all the trouble, faces it from all sides--political fanatics, Hollywood party girls, a secret agent, and local television--in this rollicking sequel to Miss Kwa Kwa. Upon waking up a week after she remembers going to bed, MK realizes sinister plots are afoot in Johannesburg ...Show more
Sharon Osbourne Extreme - My Autobiography by Sharon Osbourne
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'I have been kept awake for the past two nights, utterly gripped by Sharon's story . . . She makes Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain et all look like kiddies at a tea party, overdosing on fizzy drinks . . . she is radiant, confident, assertive and glamorous. And enormously successful, having turned Ozzy's car ...Show more
Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Haircutting and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side: A Memoir of Hard Living, Haircutting and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side by Rayya Elias
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even died once in the process, and may very well have had sex with your wife back ...Show more
Parky: My Autobiography by Michael Parkinson
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From prize-winning journalist to chat show king on a show voted one of the top ten British TV programmes of all time, Michael Parkinson's starry career spans over four decades. Now an international celebrity himself, the man from a humble but colourful Yorkshire mining family who can tease out the secre ...Show more
The Autobiography of Ben Franklin by Ben Franklin
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Considered one of the most famous and popular works in American literature, this work has been said to be the first American book to be taken seriously by Europeans as a literary work.
First They Killed My Father Movie Tie-In - A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From a childhood survivor of the Camdodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit--now a Netflix film by Angelina Jolie.Repackaged in a new tie-in edition t ...Show more