The Letters of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney; Christopher Reid
$89.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The letters provide us with an intimate, multi-layered understanding of this extraordinarypoet's life and mind.
The Many Lives of Barry Humphries (HB): A Treasury of Reminisces by Rowan Dean
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Actor, comedian, raconteur, writer, poet, painter, songwriter, music lover and one of the most gifted artists of the last century, Barry Humphries was an Australian global superstar. In this affectionate tribute, Rowan Dean, one of the last people to spend time alone with his friend Barry, reminisces th ...Show more
Me and Paul - Untold Stories of a Fabled Friendship by Willie Nelson; David Ritz
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Discover the untold stories and unbreakable bond between country music icon Willie Nelson and his longtime drummer, Paul English.Immortalized in Willie Nelson's road song "Me and Paul," Paul English was the towering figure who for 70 years acted as Willie's drummer, bodyguard, accountant, partner in cri ...Show more
American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific ...Show more
A Gypsy in Auschwitz by Otto Rosenberg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
A unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child's survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis, leaving behind schools, jobs, fr ...Show more
A Deadly Secret, the Bizarre and Chilling Story of Robert Durst by Matt Birkbeck
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The recent arrest in New Orleans and the HBO documentary The Jinx - scheduled to air on Fox in Australia in May - have put Robert Durst back in the headlines. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst's NYPD files, is the authoritative account of a decades-long criminal odyssey the very book found i ...Show more
My Wicked Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
A hero to millions who adored his portrayals of Robin Hood and Fletcher Christian, Errol Flynn (1909-59) lived a life that far surpassed any adventure he ever acted out on screen: exotic travels, criminal exploits, passionate love affairs, violent confrontations, scandals, and international fame. In thi ...Show more
Wild at Heart by Alienor le Gouvello
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
From the moment French-born Alienor encountered a pair of wild horses in the Australian outback, she was transfixed. Fiercely loved by some and considered a scourge by others, brumbies have a complicated place in Australian culture and history. Inspired to celebrate their character, Alienor tamed three ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: very good
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Zelensky: A Biography by Serhii Rudenko
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the public face of his country’s courageous and bloody struggle against a brutal invasion. Zelensky’s extraord ...Show more
Nicky Winmar: My Story by Nicky Winmar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Thirty years after creating one of the most memorable moments in sporting history, Indigenous AFL legend Nicky Winmar tells his story in a moving and compelling memoir. FROM BUSH KID TO AFL LEGEND Sport is made up of moments that thrill us at the time and quickly disappear. Very few endure for deca ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man by Margaret Simons
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The fascinating story behind the rabbits-to-riches ascendancy of one of Australia's most powerful men. Plucked from an orphanage as an infant, Kerry Stokes grew up in the slums and streets of post-Depression Melbourne with his itinerant adoptive parents. As a boy he trapped, skinned and sold rabbits to ...Show more