Shakespeare Biographic Great Lives in Graphic Form by Viv Croot
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
The Biographies series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quickfir ...Show more
Austen Great Lives in Graphic Form by Sophie Collins
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quick-fire journey through truths and trivia that is the most entertaining way to follow in the footsteps of the men and women whose ...Show more
Banksia Lady: Celia Rosser - Botanical Artist by Carolyn Landon
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
Banksia Lady is the story of Celia Rosser, internationally acclaimed botanical illustrator, who dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia, the only artist to have done so. Her dedication to the task put her at the centre of the Monash Banksia Project for twenty-five years, and culminate ...Show more
The Power Broker - Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life by Michael Gawenda
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel. Mark Leibler grew up in this community, and in time became a leader of it. This book shows how Leibler rose to a ...Show more
Eat Pray Love: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Elizabeth Gilbert
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Eat Pray Love, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. Newly divorced journalist Elizabet ...Show more
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Bryson
"Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America. It was a happy time, when almost everything w ...Show more
Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Christmas Fiction Ser.
Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this her third mar ...Show more
The Countess from Kirribilli by Joyce Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Elizabeth von Armin
She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and Europe. She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirl ...Show more
Elli: Coming Of Age in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton Jackson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Elli #1
At a time when most girls are growing up, having boyfriends and embarking upon the adventure of life, Elli Friedman was taken from her small, sunny hometown and thrown into the murderous hell of Hitler?Final Solution. When Elli emerged from Auschwitz and Dachau just over a year later, she was fourteen. ...Show more
Story of My Life by Helen Keller
$9.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Enriched Classics (Pocket)
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. Left bli ...Show more
A Fortunate Life (HB) - Fremantle Press Treasures by A. B. Facey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Fremantle Press Treasures Edition
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more