Under Siege by Belinda Neil
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Mira
Belinda Neil lived and breathed her high-octane job. She relished her roles as a homicide investigator and hostage negotiator with the NSW police force, but she never knew what her work day might bring. She could be investigating brutal murders such as the De Gruchy killings or , in her negotiator role, ...Show more
The Friedkin Connection by William Friedkin
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography
With such seminal movies as The Exorcist and The French Connection, Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin secured his place as a great filmmaker. But his own success story has the makings of classic American film. He was born in Chicago, the son of Russian immigrants. Immediately after high sc ...Show more
Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh; Gregory White Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a book acclaimed for its miraculous research and overwhelming narrative power. Now Naifeh and Smith have written another tour de force-an exquisi ...Show more
How to be a Husband by Tim Dowling
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
The much-loved Guardian columnist asks what it takes to make a husband, and looks to his own married life to provide the answer.* *This book should in no way be read as a guide to a successful marriage. Twenty years ago Tim Dowling and his wife embarked on a project so foolhardy, the prospect made them ...Show more
A Simpler Time by Peter FitzSimons
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts. Peter FitzSimons's account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and val ...Show more
Everything to Live For The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt by Turia Pitt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Everything to Live For is the story of one young woman's survival against extraordinary odds, a testament to the human spirit. In September 2011, Turia Pitt, a beautiful 25-year-old mining engineer working her dream job in the far north of Western Australia, entered an ultra-marathon race that would cha ...Show more
Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible by Alan Rusbridger
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The Guardian editor's account of a remarkable musical challenge during an extraordinary year for news. In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin's Ballade No. 1 - a piece that inspires dread in many professional ...Show more
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A story never before told and a memoir to help change our understanding of the world around us, 13-year-old Naoki Higashida's astonishing, empathetic book takes us into the mind of a boy with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, author of the global phenomenon, Cloud Atlas, and transla ...Show more
John Wayne: the Life and Legend by Scott Eyman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
John Wayne died more than thirty years ago, but he remains one of the five favourite movie stars of contemporary audiences. Yet, there has never been a comprehensive biography worthy of the man as well as the star. Until now. The beloved Hollywood icon comes fully to life in this complex portrait by a m ...Show more
Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces by Miles J. Unger
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Among the immortals-Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso-Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture. He was not only the greatest artist in an age of giants, but a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed with patrons by insisting t ...Show more
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations by Ava Gardner
$20.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Ava Gardner was one of the most glamorous and famous stars in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Her list of films includes The Killers, Showboat and Mogambo, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, and her co-stars included Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey B ...Show more
A Story Lately Told - Coming of Age in London, Ireland and New York by Anjelica Huston
$20.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Anjelica Huston's life, once she turned 15 and moved to London, is a who's who of popular culture from the Rolling Stones in late '60s London to the Chelsea Hotel in New York when she was modelling in the early '70s, to Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty in '70s and '80s Los Angeles, to Hunter Thompson in ...Show more