Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre - A Biography of the Doors by Mick Wall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Think you know how Jim Morrison died? Think you know who wrote all their hits? Think you know why Morrison fled to Paris, never to return? Well now you will with the definitive biography, Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre, of the legendary rock band and their iconic frontman Jim Morrison, written by Mick Wal ...Show more
Embrace: My Story from Body Loather to Body Lover by Taryn Brumfitt
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Body confidence does not come from trying to achieve the perfect body, it comes from embracing the one you've already got." This is the book for every woman who hates the way her body looks, and derides herself for not having the perfect figure. It is for those who have allowed those negative and harmf ...Show more
Jane Austen by Zena Alkayat
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Life Portraits
ALSO IN THIS SERIES: Virginia Woolf, Coco Chanel and Frida Kahlo. This beautifully illustrated biography follows Jane Austen's life and work (which includes Pride Prejudice, Sense Sensibility and Emma) and celebrates the legacy of the much-loved literary icon. It also explores Austen's inspirations and ...Show more
Black Widow: The True Story of Australia's First Female Serial Killer by Carol Baxter
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Never before in the hundred year history of Australia has a female prisoner become so notorious as Louisa Collins.' - Evening News Two inquests, four trials, three hung juries and the executioner...but was Louisa Collins really a husband killer? Was she the callous adulteress, drunkard and liar known as ...Show more
After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak by Alice Nelson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson presents a powerful collection of fourteen narratives by Australian Holocaust survivors told in thei ...Show more
Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals by John LeFevre
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance. Hundreds of thousands followed the account, Goldman Sachs launched an internal investigation, and when the true identity of the man behind ...Show more
Anti Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Brutal, brave, hilarious - a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you. Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while ...Show more
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to t ...Show more
William S. Burroughs - A Life by Barry Miles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken such risks in their writing, developed such individual radical politica ...Show more
Gilliamesque - A Pre-Posthumous Memoir (HB) by Terry Gilliam
$59.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the cutting edge of '60s and '70s counter-culture in New York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam's life has been as vivid and unorthodox as one of his films. Telling his story for the first t ...Show more
Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders
$39.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders - the hilarious, touching life story of the iconic comedian and national treasure Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, h ...Show more
Exit Wounds: One Australian's War on Terror by John Cantwell; Greg Bearup
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
John Cantwell, Queensland country boy, enlisted in the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in 1991 as Coalition forces fitted bulldozer blades to tanks and buried Iraqi troops alive. He served in Baghdad in 2006 and saw what a car bomb does to a crowded mark ...Show more