Byron's Women by Alexander Larman
9.99 AUD
22.99 (56% off)
Category: Biography
One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Ni ...Show more
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World by Michelle Scott Tucker
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any Austen novel that would be the end of the story, but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning.John Macarthur too ...Show more
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
9.99 AUD
22.99 (56% off)
Category: Biography
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; th ...Show more
Eye of the Beholder by Laura J. Snyder
9.99 AUD
19.99 (50% off)
Category: Biography
"See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600's. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the Scientific Revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses and created paintings filled with realistic effects of li ...Show more
A Bold Life by Kerri-Anne Kennerley
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Kerri-Anne Kennerley is Australia's queen of television. But behind the glamour of a public life is a private woman. And a survivor. A Bold Life is the tale of a Sandgate girl who chased her dream of being a cabaret star to New York, only to find herself stranded in a violent marriage to a dangerous dr ...Show more
The Horses Who Heal by Suzanne Spence
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sue Spence is a gifted horsewoman, who has made it her life's work to use her horse whispering skills to help humans. All her life, Sue has found solace and companionship with her horses. After a brush with cancer in her late thirties, Sue and her husband opted for a tree change. As a result, she was ab ...Show more
Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel by Bob Batchelor
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From the mean streets of Depression-era New York City to recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Lee's life has been almost as remarkable as the thrilling adventures he spun for decades. From millions of comic books fans of the 1960s through billions of moviegoers around the globe, Stan Lee has touched ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
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35.00 (71% off)
Category: Biography
'This book has found a special place in my heart. It's as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it' HELEN MACDONALD, author of H IS FOR HAWK'Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings ... Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer and ...Show more
The Desert and the Sea : 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
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Category: Biography
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign polic ...Show more
Size Zero: My Life as a Disappearing Model by Victoire Dauxerre
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24.99 (60% off)
Category: Biography
Scouted in the street when she was 17, Victoire Dauxerre's story started like a teenager's fantasy: within months she was strutting down the catwalks of New York's major fashion shows. But when fashion executives and photographers forced her to become ever thinner, Victoire's dream became a nightmare. ...Show more
Kim Kardashian by Sean Smith
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29.99 (66% off)
Category: Biography
Bestselling biographer Sean Smith takes on the world's number one reality star, Kim Kardashian West. This is the ultimate insight into the reality behind the woman who has defined fame in our modern culture - her childhood, her family, her turbulent love life and the multi-millionaire lifestyle. Kim Kar ...Show more