Biographies

Sidebar Sidebar Sidebar
  • sale
    Cathy Goes to Canberra
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Cathy Goes to Canberra

    Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of...
    RRP: $29.95
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    'I Wonder'
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    'I Wonder'

    Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach - summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' - won him a large...
    RRP: $39.95
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Geoffrey Blainey
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Geoffrey Blainey

    Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's greatest livinghistorian, a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about thecountry's past as The Tyranny of Distanceand Triumph of the Nomads.However, Blainey has also been a...
    RRP: $34.95
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Jean Blackburn
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Jean Blackburn

    From the maelstrom of the Depression and World War II, fromCommunist Party membership in the 1930s-1950s, and early attachment to thefeminism and peace, Jean Blackburn emerged as a significant publicintellectual. Her life work was the attachment of...
    RRP: $34.95
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Seven Big Australians
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Seven Big Australians

    Comicactors have made a particularly strong contribution to cultural life inAustralia over the past sixty years. They have brought a range of memorablecharacters to the stage, television and film; they have transformed our imageof ourselves, helped to...
    RRP: $29.95
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    A Historian for All Seasons
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    A Historian for All Seasons

    Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the country's regional mosaic, some of its notable figures and others who were just...
    RRP: $39.95
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Shelf Life of Zora Cross

    **2021 National Biography Award, highly commended****2020 NSW Premier's History Awards, shortlisted**A new edition of this acclaimed biography of an unsung literary talent.Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with...
    RRP: $27.99
    $27.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Survival and Sanctuary
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Survival and Sanctuary

    When Jewish survivors of the Holocaust arrived in Australia after World War II, they were filled with hope that they could build a new life. These survivors found themselves in a country not only blessedly far from the chaos of post-war Europe but also...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    My People's Songs
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    My People's Songs

    Tarenootairer (c.180658) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat. From there unfolded a life of immense cruelty inflicted by her colonial captors. As with so many Indigenous women of her time, even today the...
    RRP: $34.95
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers

    Autobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her death in 1974. Was her writing the truth, or false, or somewhere in between? What did it mean when she described her father as 'evil' and...
    RRP: $34.95
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Double Act
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Double Act

    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...
    RRP: $39.95
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Maestro John Monash
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Maestro John Monash

    Who was the most innovative general of World War One? For Tim Fischer, the answer has to be Australia's 'Maestro' John Monash, a man who, for all the recognition he received in his lifetime and after, has arguably not been given his proper due.Fischer...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Moving in the Open Daylight
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Moving in the Open Daylight

    The year was 1945. The place was San Francisco. The topic was the world.Ashley Hogan tells the story of a moment in human history when Australia became known for its courage and liberalism. At the conference that founded the United Nations, Australia...
    RRP: $26.95
    $26.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    An Unlikely Leader
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    An Unlikely Leader

    Despite several landmarks across the state bearing his name, John Hunter, the second governor of New South Wales, remains somewhat of an enigma. His solitary, career-driven life on land and at sea was tumultuous. As a governor, he had a tough time making...
    RRP: $39.95
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    South Flows the Pearl
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    South Flows the Pearl

    South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese...
    RRP: $40.00
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories

    A wave of life stories and autobiographical narratives by Aboriginal women began in the late 1970s and gained momentum a decade later with the publication of Sally Morgan's My Place (1987), which became a bestseller. While some of the books of the first...
    RRP: $25.00
    $24.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Sir Frank Packer
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Sir Frank Packer

    This absorbing biography traces the newspaper career of Frank's father R.C. Packer from Hobart and the outback to the founding of Smith's Weekly in 1919. Overshadowed by his brilliant father, Frank was an academic failure at school and...
    RRP: $45.00
    $44.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Alexander Mackie: An Academic Life
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Alexander Mackie: An Academic Life

    From the late nineteenth century, academic disciplines emerged in universities, marking boundaries of knowledge, teaching and research. Education became a transnational academic discipline, developing across Britain, Europe and North America and...
    RRP: $29.95
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    The Search for Knowledge and Understanding
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Search for Knowledge and Understanding

    For nearly a millennium, universities have searched for knowledge, understanding and truth. Internationally renowned neuroscientist, Professor Maxwell Bennett, evaluates the work of 20 of the greatest scholars in the University of Sydney's history and...
    RRP: $50.00
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    The Imago
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Imago

    Biographer Suzanne Falkiner presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E. L. Grant Watson, whose experiences as a young man in Australia at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped his later years as a novelist.Enlisted in 1910 by a Cambridge...
    RRP: $49.95
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Not Always Diplomatic
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Not Always Diplomatic

    A pioneer for women in international diplomacy, Sue Boyd shares this account of her life in foreign service.'An engaging account of life at the coalface by one of Australia's most active and effective diplomats and real pathfinder in leading our...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    From the Bukarikara
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    From the Bukarikara

    Butcher Joe Nangan was one of those charismatic people who exercised a most profound impact on all who met him.Having spent his life acquiring the ritual knowledge and lore, not only of his own Nyikina and Walmajarri forbears but also that pertaining to...
    RRP: $45.00
    $44.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Hearing Maud
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Hearing Maud

    *Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Non-Fiction*Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice is a work of creative non-fiction that details the author'sexperiences of deafness after losing most of her hearing at age four. It charts how, as...
    RRP: $27.99
    $27.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Ink in Her Veins
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Ink in Her Veins

    Aileen Palmer poet, translator, political activist, adventurer was the daughter of two writers prominent in Australian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Vance and Nettie Palmer were well known as...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Mick
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Mick

    Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission - won the Miles Franklin Award for 1958. In later life, after...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Changing Altitudes
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Changing Altitudes

    In the early years of the Second World War, Australian women began lobbying to contribute to the nation’s wartime effort. From 1940, women were signing up to serve in the Royal Australian Nursing Service, and in 1941, an Auxiliary arm of the Royal...
    $20.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Action Action Action
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Action Action Action

    Over one hundred and fifty years ago, on 1st August 1871, the Colony of New South Wales raised its first permanent Battery, known as the New South Wales Artillery. This battery complemented existing colonial volunteer batteries. The previous year, the...
    $20.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Stop Screaming, I'm Scared Too
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Stop Screaming, I'm Scared Too

    This book is part Chickenhawk and part Exit Wounds … a powerful and timely contribution to a nation’s understanding of what we ask of our service men and women and the debt we owe … Matt Anderson PSM, Director, Australian War...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Combat Medic
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Combat Medic

    On 22nd April 1995, more than 4,000 Rwandans were massacred and thousands more injured in a place called Kibeho. Terry Pickard, a seasoned soldier and medic, was one of a 32-strong force of Australian UN peacekeepers present on that terrible Saturday...
    RRP: $24.99
    $24.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    So I Hit Him
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    So I Hit Him

    So I Hit Him is an extremely powerful memoir that will shock many people, yet is intensely inspirational. Born in a former workhouse hospital in Manchester, England with multiple disabilities and not expected to survive, Michael was placed in care almost...
    RRP: $24.99
    $24.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    The Naked Witch
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Naked Witch

    Fiona Horne’s extraordinary journey through a metaphysical-laced material world has all the breathtaking twists, turns, perils, redemption and enlightenment of a fantasy novel merged with Siddhartha and Entertainment Weekly.It’s the late 70s and a 10...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Rock Chicks - Updated US Edition
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Rock Chicks - Updated US Edition

    Rock Chicks - The Hottest Female Rockers From The 1960S to Now profiles the hottest rocknroll women from Janis Joplin Suzi Quatro & Chrissie Hynde to Courtney Love and Pink. With perceptive biographies and in-depth music critiques author Alison...
    RRP: $24.99
    $24.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Creative Writer's Sourcebook Creative Writer's Sourcebook
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Creative Writer's Sourcebook

    Explore the style and technique of the world’s greatest writers in this compendium to be treasured by literature lovers. From Katherine Mansfield to Toni Morrison, discover 50 celebrated writers and the literary techniques that set them apart. Each...
    RRP: $39.99
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Secret Heroes of World War II Secret Heroes of World War II
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Secret Heroes of World War II

    World War II had many influential figures, whose incredible acts of bravery, skill and intelligence helped to turn the tide of the war. But few of them receive the recognition their actions deserve. In Secret Heroes of World War II, we meet the...
    RRP: $39.99
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • William Booth & His Salvation Army
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    William Booth & His Salvation Army

    The filthy back streets of London's East End in the Victorian era were home to every imaginable crime, vice and horror. Many thousands lived there without Christ and without hope, and no one seemed to care. But William Booth did care. In 1865 Booth...
    $15.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    One Woman’s War and Peace
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    One Woman’s War and Peace

    In 1999, idealistic 23-year-old Registered Nurse Sharon Bown left her comfortable family life in Tasmania and joined the Royal Australian Air Force with the aim of providing humanitarian aid to the world. Through her 16-year military career she deployed...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Under a Bomber's Moon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Under a Bomber's Moon

    They were the best of enemies – dedicated, skilled and deadly. In the night skies above wartime Germany an RAF navigator-air bomber from New Zealand and a Luftwaffe pilot seek out their targets, testing the gap between success and their own destruction...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Clare Reilly Clare Reilly
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Clare Reilly

    Clare Reilly: Eye of the Calm is a celebration of artist Clare Reilly’s life and work. Reilly’s passions for coastal New Zealand and the country’s wildlife are brought to life in this beautiful collection, which explores themes of habitat destruction and...
    RRP: $55.99
    $54.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Philip Glass Piano Etudes
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Philip Glass Piano Etudes

    A stunning, deluxe boxed set of composer Philip Glass’s most important and historic body of work, his collection of twenty Piano Etudes, along with a book of reflections by notable artists and musicians.Philip Glass is one of the most influential artists...
    RRP: $275.00
    $250.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen

    Part cookbook. Part manifesto. Created with big Bronx energy, Black Power Kitchen combines 75 mostly plant-based, layered-with-flavour recipes with immersive storytelling, diverse voices, and striking images and photographs that celebrate Black...
    $68.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • To Me, He Was Just Dad
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    To Me, He Was Just Dad

    “The lowdown on what it’s like to be raised by a legend. Frequently funny and consistently intimate. . . . A great read.”  —BookPage“Those searching for a moving Father’s Day gift need look no further.” —Publishers WeeklyMen like John Wayne and John...
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Good Time Girl
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Good Time Girl

    The instant New York Times bestselling author of Bad Mormon and breakout star of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City returns with a hilarious, illustrative, and deeply reflective book about life and love as a former Mormon, mother, and reality TV star...
    RRP: $49.99
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Murriyang
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Murriyang

    Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, he offers a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing a path to peace and forgiveness, rooted in the Wiradjuri spiritual practice of Yindyamarra – deep...
    RRP: $39.99
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    We Are the Stars
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    We Are the Stars

    Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful, moving memoirs you will ever read.From day one of her wildly unconventional childhood, Gina Chick blazed her own...
    RRP: $36.99
    $36.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Dinner for Vampires
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Dinner for Vampires

    A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free. In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz...
    RRP: $34.99
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added

Biography: general