April 2008 Biographies
I Am Melba
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
I Am Melba - how a Melbourne girl defied her father and left her husband to become the most famous singer of the age.
Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell showed musical promise and dreamed of fame, but her father ha... More »
Nothing To Be Frightened Of
$55.00 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
I don't believe in God, but I miss him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art... More »
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Unstill Life: Art Politics and Living With Clifton Pugh
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
Judith and Clifton Pugh met in September 1970. He was an artist with an international reputation; she was twenty years younger than him and had just joined the Australian Labor Party. Their decade together was a heady mi... More »
This Is Not My Beautiful Life
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
There is a moment in all of our lives when we realise that things are not going as we'd planned...
... that there is a significant gap between what we thought our life was going to be and how it's actually shaping up. El... More »
Poe: A Life Cut Short
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus )
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor o... More »
The Young Widow's Book Of Home Improvement
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )
The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement is a love story that chronicles Virginia's renovation of the house she shared with her husband, John, and the ways in which that process paralleled her own emotional 'renovation... More »
The Sum Of Our Days
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, The House of the Spirits, was based on her Chilean childhood, and other autobiographical works inc... More »
Life In His Hands The True Story Of A Neurosurgeon And A Pianist
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Picador )
Charlie Teo is one of Australia's most celebrated yet controversial neurosurgeons. His stock in trade is "inoperable" brain tumours - those malignant cancers that others don't dare treat - and by any estimation he is inc... More »
Miracles Of Life
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )
Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed examination of the events which would profoundly influence his work. Beginning with his early childhood spent exploring the vibrant surroundin... More »
At My French Table: Food Family And Joie De Vivre In A Corner of Normandy
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
In 2005 Jane Webster sold her house in Melbourne and moved to a rather run-down chateau in France. We see the chateau restored to its former glory, meet the local characters and discover the produce of Normandy at Jane's... More »
Plaster And Paint: John Colquhoun Orthopaedic Surgeon And Hispatient Joyce Mcgrath Portrait Painter
$39.95 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
Two lives preserved in a biography: John Colquhoun, orthopaedic surgeon, and Joyce McGrath, Arts librarian and portrait painter. John’s life began in Scotland with the gifts of intellect and mastery. He was robust yet ge... More »
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