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The Paper Nautilus by Michael Jackson
$38.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginnings are born of brokenness. The paper nautilus provides a vivid image of this interplay of death and rebirth since, for new life to begin, the angelically beau ...Show more
We Don't Go Far But We Do See Life: Adventures on a Dutch Barge by KEITH HARRIS
$23.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Follow Dutch barge Saul Trader on her voyages through the canals of Europe. Author Keith Harris and his merry crew journey from England to Belgium and Holland through the centre of France to the Southern extremities of the extensive French canal system. There are stories and anecdotes about the people t ...Show more
One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
$43.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s - a very different time - and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London, to study at the Royal Acade ...Show more
Somewhere : Women's Stories of Migration by Lorna Jane Harvey
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
More people are likely migrating now than at any other time in history, and this is set to increase as climate change and political unrest pushes even more people to relocate. From the fleeing refugee to the political and economic migrant, a broad range of migration by people of many cultures, ethniciti ...Show more
Zigzags and Leapfrogs: A Memoir by Maris O'Rourke
$38.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Born on a small island in Scotland to a local girl and an Australian serviceman, raised in a working class, dysfunctional, often violent, itinerant household around the UK and Europe, O'Rourke rose to become the Secretary for Education for New Zealand, the Director of Education at the World Bank, an Int ...Show more
The Aeronauts - Travels in the Air by James Glaisher
$23.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In 1862, ambitious scientist James Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than ever before to establish his groundbreaking research.Glaisher's death-defying journey forms the story of the major motion picture The Aeronauts, starring Eddie Redmayne as Glaisher and Felicity Jo ...Show more
Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica by Rebecca Priestley
$43.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Rebecca Priestley longs to be in Antarctica. But it is also the last place on Earth she wants to go. In 2011 Priestley visited the wide white continent for the first time, on a trip that coincided with the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful trek to the South Pole. For Priestley, 2011 was the fu ...Show more
Go Ahead in the Rain - Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here ...Show more
Blood, Sweat and the Sea by Mike Swinson; Georgie Pajak; Nicole Mays
$79.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Biography of Tasmanian Robert John Muir: a remarkable man and export champion. He started a world-renowned maritime winch, anchoring and mooring systems manufacturing company.
Oscar's Ghost - The Battle for Oscar Wilde's Legacy by Laura Lee
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"In all his life Oscar] has never written me a letter that was unkind or at least unloving and to see anything terrible in his handwriting written directly to me would almost kill me"' This was written by Lord Alfred Douglas in 1897, before the contents of Oscar Wilde's long letter written in prison and ...Show more
Writing Home by Polly Devlin; Joan Bakewell (Foreword by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Polly Devlin is a writer, broadcaster and filmmaker. She holds an OBE for services to literature. After spending her childhood in Northern Ireland, at the age of twenty-two she took up her first job--as a writer, and soon features editor--on British Vogue, at the heart of 1960s London. A couple of years ...Show more
A Lesson in Art and Life - The Enchanted World of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett Haines by Hugh St Clair; Philip Mould (Foreword by)
$74.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Interest in mid-20th century British artists and the world they inhabited is growing internationally--prices are rising and exhibitions proliferate. This biography focuses on the couple who were at the centre of the Modern British art scene: Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (1894-1978). ...Show more