The Hard Road Out: Escaping North Korea by Jihyun Park
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ ...Show more
Bohemian Negligence by Bertie Blackman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The celebrated musician's evocative and intimate memoir of the magic and vulnerability of her bohemian childhood growing up as the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman. If you could touch your memories, how would they feel? My first memory of life is blurry. A blurry red dot. A strawberry in a thi ...Show more
Among Others: Friendships and Encounters by Michael Frayn
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Michael Frayn would like to say a brief word about a few of the friends who have shaped his life - 'before my memory goes'. Some have had a profound effect. Some, a small and passing one. Some, you may know yourself. Some you couldn't possibly know at all; and maybe nor did Michael (there are stories o ...Show more
Darwin Daze by BERNARD OLLIS
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A 26 year old graduating student from The Royal College of Art, London, goes on the journey of a lifetime to take up the position of lecturer in drawing and painting at The Darwin Community College, Northern Territory, Australia. The year is 1976 and the young, enthusiastic, but naive young man travels ...Show more
On Agoraphobia by Graham Caveney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
<b>‘One of my favourite living writers: intelligent, lucid and, most impressive of all, funny’ Jonathan Coe</b> <b>‘Intellectually curious, emotionally bracing and immensely erudite’ Blake Morrison, <i>The Guardian</i></b> <b>‘Captivating’ Richard Beard</b> ...Show more
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical ...Show more
The Girl Prince Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax by Danell Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A new look at a revolutionary writer, a diverse imperial city, and a controversial trick on the Royal Navy.In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading as an Abyssinian prince, the young writer and her ...Show more
JFK - The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination by John Hughes-Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The truth behind the assassination of JFK - reissued and updated for the sixtieth anniversary Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in American - and world - history. Whatever the conclusions of the US of ...Show more
Reckless by Marele Day
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jean Kay, my skipper, fellow adventurer, my friend. My brother. Jean Kay, soldier-of-fortune, opportunist, embezzler, hijacker. In her youth, amidst the throes of a reckless grief, aspiring Australian writer Marele Day is caught up in a shipwreck adventure and forges an unlikely bond with an internatio ...Show more
The Girl in the Green Dress by Jeni Haynes, George Blair-West
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.'An intelligent, poised woman, Jeni Haynes sat in court and listened as the man wh ...Show more
No Room for Small Dreams by Shimon Peres
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth centur ...Show more
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by Scott Eyman
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The remarkable, must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman. Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin’s fall f ...Show more