Living the Cold War by Mallaby Christopher
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The centerpiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. He saw unificatio ...Show more
Lady M by Brown Colin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Nicknamed "Lady M" by Byron, Elizabeth Milbanke, Viscountess Melbourne, rose above all adversity, using sex and her husband's wealth to hold court among such glittering figures as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the Whig leader and wit Charles James Fox, and the playwright Sheridan. Her many lovers in ...Show more
Girl Aboard the Titanic by Hart Eva
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
'I saw that ship sink, I never closed my eyes. I saw it, I heard it, and nobody could possibly forget it. I can remember the colours, the sounds, everything. The worst thing I can remember were the screams.' EVA HART This is the amazing story of how Eva survived the sinking of the Titanic - the disaster ...Show more
Never, Ever Give Up?: A Memoir by Hellemans John
$43.95 AUD
Category: Biography
John Hellemans looks back on his long career in triathlon, initially as a successful competitor, and subsequently as a coach and sports medicine doctor for some of New Zealand's best-performing triathletes. Hellemans won six national titles and represented New Zealand at several world championship event ...Show more
We Can Make a Life by Chessie Henry
$38.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikoura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravelling ...Show more
Pros: The Forgotten Heroes of Tennis by Underwood Peter
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
It is now largely forgotten that, until the late 1960s, professional tennis players - that is those who played openly for money - were banned from competing in the world's major tennis tournaments. Before then, the great contests such as the Davis Cup, Wimbledon and the national Championships like the A ...Show more
Wielding The Brush by Anderson Gae
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This book recuperates for art historians and the reading public the distinguished but forgotten career of the Melbourne artist, Esther Paterson. Aside from providing a close-up of Esther's oeuvre - sketches for newspapers and magazines, landscape painting and portraiture - the book illuminates her close ...Show more
Henry III: the Son of Magna Carta by Lewis Matthew
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Henry III became King of England within days of his ninth birthday. His father, King John, had overseen a disastrous period in English history and the boy king inherited a country embroiled in a bitter, entrenched war with itself. With barons inviting a French prince to take the crown, the young Henry w ...Show more
Debt Collector by Smith Shaun
$44.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Shaun Smith lives in a world few of us see, one where the normal rules don't apply. If someone owes you money and is in the wrong then he's the man to talk to. The Debt Collector reveals the real Shaun Smith. Yes he's Britain's toughest debt collector but he's also a man with humour and courage. Just do ...Show more
Mistress of Science by Croucher John S
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
It is hard to imagine a more male-dominated field in the nineteenth century than sea navigation. This was the high-point of the British Empire and sea navigation drove it. Yet in the midst of this domain Janet Taylor emerged as a young woman able to match the best male minds in the field. She was one of ...Show more
Feverish by Fenster Gigi
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Swaziland is where you think, for the first time, maybe if I got brain fever I would be able to stop worrying. I'd lose control and, maybe then, I'd understand my friend's mind. In an attempt to break free from rationality and make her life a work of art, Gigi Fenster decides to induce a fever in hersel ...Show more
Beauty of Her Age by Roberts Jenifer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Yolande Duvernay was born in poverty in Paris in 1812. Under the control of a formidable stage mother, she became a celebrated ballerina - the favourite dancer of Princess Victoria - renowned for her beauty, grace, and provocative style on stage. Sold for sexual assignations from puberty, she gave birth ...Show more