July 2008 Biographies
Growing Up Asian In Australia
$27.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
Asian-Australians are known to each other and the outside world by many labels: Quiet Achiever. FOB. Gangster Chigger. Mainlander. Banana. But are these labels based on some degree of truth, or only fiction? What is it l... More »
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Wolf At The Table
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Picador )
From the number one New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes an hilarious, frightening and compulsively readable new memoir. More »
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Crashing Through: A True Story Of Risk Adventure And The Man Who Dared To See
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at the age of three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and fam... More »
The Recollections Of Mr Manoly Lascaris
$26.95 (Paperback book / Brandl Schlesinger )
Recollections of Mr Lascaris relates Vrasidas Karalis' personal recollections of discussions and meetings with Manoly Lascaris, Patrick White's life-partner. In these recollections, Lascaris, an obscure figure in the exi... More »
The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography Of V.S. Naipaul
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Picador )
Researched with the full co-operation of its Nobel Prize-winning subject, this is the first major biography of one of our greatest writers More »
The Printing Of A Masterpiece
$25.95 (Paperback book / Black Pepper )
I cannot think of any work that resembles The Printing of a Masterpiece. It is a memoir of the flowing intermesh of typography, ink-and-paper, Renaissance cultural history and deeply personal, hands-on knowledge. It is a... More »
Warrior Poets
$32.95$27.95 (Paperback book / Pier 9 )
On a journey through the remote North West Frontier of Pakistan, Australian Benjamin Gilmour discovered an astonishing culture - 'one of strong beliefs and a suspicion of outsiders, a love of Lollywood films and an obses... More »
Sydney Journals: Reflections 1970-2000
$27.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
Written from her home in the Sydney suburb of Annandale over a period of thirty years, but ranging widely, to Broken Hill and Wilcannia, Paris, Venice, Prague and Athens, Kefala's Sydney Journals portrays the intellectua... More »