Another Little Piece of My Heart - My Life of Rock and Revolution in the '60s by Richard Goldstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In 1966, at just twenty-two, New Yorker Richard Goldstein approached the Village Voice with a novel idea. 'I want to be a rock critic,' he said. 'What's that?' the editor replied. It was a logical question, since rock criticism didn't yet exist. In the weekly column he would produce for the Voice, Golds ...Show more
Rival Queens: Catherine De' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite De Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
'A gripping tale of royal feuds and divided kingdoms' - AMANDA FOREMAN Set in Renaissance France at the magnificent court of the Valois kings, THE RIVAL QUEENS is the history of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm ...Show more
Seeds of Hope : Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants by Jane Goodall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: General Adult
In her wise and elegant new book, Jane Goodall blends her experience in nature with her enthusiasm for botany to give readers a deeper understanding of the world around us. Long before her work with chimpanzees, Goodall's passion for the natural world sprouted in the backyard of her childhood home in En ...Show more
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Since her death in 1992, at the age of just fifty-one, Angela Carter has been widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century. Her work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiv ...Show more
Country Wife by Anne Gorman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
When she is five, Anne Gorman's family disintegrates. After thirteen pregnancies and the death of two children, her devout Catholic mother has a breakdown and Anne and her sisters are placed in a convent. Struggling to survive a childhood marred by fear and uncertainty, Anne sees education as her lifeli ...Show more
Marlene by C W Gortner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From the cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the dazzling film studios of Hollywood s golden age, an enthralling novel of a glamorous legend Maria Magdalena Dietrich was born for a life on the stage. Raised in genteel poverty after the First World War, the willful teenager vows to become an actress and singer, ...Show more
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Bowley
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Making an Elephant by Graham Swift
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'An immensely readable volume. On every page, Swift emerges as a considerable essayist, who upholds the sterling virtue of good writing combined with emotional and intellectual engagement' Evening Standard As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way in ...Show more
Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood-along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again. In Tal ...Show more
Work Shy ( Workshy ) by Dave Graney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Following up his 'musical memoir' 1001 Australian Nights (2011), legendary Australian showman Dave Graney returns to the page with a more autobiographical take on his remarkable life. It's half written by Dave Graney, the consummate performer and half-written by Dave Graney, the mere mortal.The trick is ...Show more
A Forger's Tale by Shaun Greenhalgh
$29.99 AUD
$32.99 (9% off)
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In 2007, Bolton Crown Court in the United Kingdom sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had successfully fooled some of the world's greatest museums. During the court cas ...Show more
White Beech: The Rainforest Years: The Rainforest Years by Germaine Greer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
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