Morrissey Autobiography by Morrissey
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This full-colour edition of Autobiography includes new images chosen by Morrissey and a full Discography of Morrissey's work. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six year ...Show more
Double Act: The Remarkable Lives & Careers of Googie Withers & John McCallum by Brian McFarlane
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Not many can boast of careers that lasted successfully for nearly seventy years, but that is what both Googie Withers and John McCallum achieved. She acted everything from brazen murderesses to Lady Bracknell, taking in blonde nitwits, wartime Resistance workers, lady farmers and Shakespeare along the w ...Show more
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'c ...Show more
And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist and the Glovemaker - A True Story of Love, Loss and Betrayal by Christopher Ward
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were still playing when the ship went down. The violinist ...Show more
The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love by Per J. Andersson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Slumdog Millionaire - but for real!
Alligator Blood: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the High-rolling Whiz-kid who Controlled Online Poker's Billions by James Leighton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 2003, when an amateur online poker player managed to win the World Series of Poker, millions of people created accounts to try to emulate his success. Thus began online poker's transition from hobby to fully-fledged career for many players, eventually growing to become the multi-billion dollar indust ...Show more
All the Money in the World FTI (previously Painfully Rich) by John Pearson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom of grandson Paul Getty - is now a major motion picture, directed by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay written by David Scarpa and starring Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg ...Show more
Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry by Akiane Kramarik
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and her fascinating story in this collection of the best of her full-color paintings and poetry created from ages 4-10, along with details of her family and the amazing stories that surround each unique artwork.
Adventures of a Wonky Eyed Boy by Jason Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
‘“Mrs.Byrne, you’ve a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy, with a wonky eye.” My mother wept for all the wrong reasons as she was handed me by the midwife. She could have slept with a platypus and still I would have come out better than this.’ So begins Jason Byrne’s Memoir. It was a time wh ...Show more
A Speck in the Sea by Aldridge, John
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Film in development with The Weinstein Company In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was thrown of the back of the Anna Mary somewhere off the coast of Long Island, NY, while his fishing partner and lifelong friend, Anthony Sosinski, slept below. As desperate hours ticked by, Sosinski, th ...Show more
A Prescribed Life by Tony Atkinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Tony Atkinson spent his early days suspended in a cage outside the sixth-storey window of his family home in 1920s London. So perhaps he was always destined to see the world differently, and to land in ridiculous, hilarious situations. There was the time he came between Winston Churchill and his bowel m ...Show more
A Singular Vision: Harry Seidler by Helen O'Neill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The power, passions and private life of the architect who shaped modern Australia - shortlisted for the 2015 National Biography Awards Harry Seidler, a stylish, decisive and highly opinionated man, was a key figure in international modern architecture and in the establishment of post-war modern design i ...Show more