Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser
$35.00 AUD
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I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak. When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to ...Show more
Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford by Donald Spoto
$45.00 AUD
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"New York Times "bestselling author Donald Spoto has already brilliantly explored the lives and careers of numerous Hollywood stars and entertainment icons--Grace Kelly, James Dean, Alfred Hitchcock, and Marilyn Monroe, to name but a few. In "Possessed," his subject is the inimitable Joan Crawford, one ...Show more
Oranges and Sunshine: Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys
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Also published as Empty Cradles. In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150 ...Show more
Across Many Mountains by Yangzom Brauen
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Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. One of Tibet’s youngest nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery. Though simple, Kunsang’s life gave her all she needed: a oneness with nature, a sense of the spiritual in all things. She married a mon ...Show more
Behind Closed Doors by Hugo Vickers
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Writing about Hugo Vickers' last book for Hutchinson, "Elizabeth, The Queen Mother", a succession of fellow biographers applauded Vickers' unique skill. "Masterly ...Hugo Vickers' long immersion in the history and dramatic personae of the Royal Family has certainly paid off". (Selina Hastings). 'A bulgi ...Show more
Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960 by Isaiah Berlin
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'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. He is a fascinated watcher of human beings in all their variety, and revels in describing them to his many correspondents. His letters combine ironic social comedy and a ...Show more
Be Different : Adventures of a Free-range Aspergian by John Elder Robison
$29.95 AUD
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The author of Look Me In The Eye returns, with endearing stories and actionable advice that will help Aspergians, and even ordinary geeks, embrace being different and work on the things that hold them back in life. With his usual honesty, dry wit, and unapologetic eccentricity, John Robison argues that ...Show more
Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelley
$24.99 AUD
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Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850 interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time, by the most widely read biographer of ...Show more
Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence by BIELE JOELLE ED
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary
A rare glimpse at the artistic development of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poets I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.--with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and ...Show more
Notebooks by Betty Churcher
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
In this gorgeously illustrated book, join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velazquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cezanne. A trained artist, Betty's sketches reveal the secrets within the artworks and the processes of their creation. ...Show more
Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker
$24.95 AUD
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The first time Brenda Walker packed her bag to go into hospital, she wondered which book to take with her. As a novelist and professor of literature, her life had been built around reading and writing. Now she was also a patient, being treated for breast cancer, fighting for her life and afraid for hers ...Show more
When Horse Became Saw: A Family's Journey Through Autism by Anthony Macris
$32.95 AUD
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Anthony Macris and his wife were, for an all-too-brief period, the happiest of parents when their son Alex was born. Until autism descended, in a swift and brutal wave, sweeping away the child they knew and leaving them to watch helplessly as his mind disintegrated. Their vibrant, healthy boy, who up to ...Show more