Home

March 2008 Biographies

Births Deaths Marriages
Georgia Blain

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

It wasn't until years later that I realized the obvious - the difference between us and the mythical normal family I was certain existed, was in fact the fiction. There is always so much more and it swims, shimmering ben... More »

Review

I Peed On Fellini
David Stratton

$34.95 (Trade paperback / Heinemann )

I Peed On Fellini, the long-awaited memoir from legendary film critic David Stratton, is an honest, funny and thoroughly entertaining journey through a remarkable life in film.

Passionate since boyhood about the cinema, ... More »

Review

Holding Up The Sky: An African Life
Sandy Blackburn Wright

$34.95$29.95 (Paperback book / Pier 9 )

This astonishing autobiographical work is the story of Australian woman Sandy Blackburn-Wright’s complex love affair with Africa and its people. Sandy lived in and worked in South Africa for 15 years. witnessing some of ... More »

Desert Queen: The Many Lives And Loves Of Daisy Bates
Susanna De Vries

$33.00 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

In the 1890s, when most women were content to marry well and raise families, Daisy Bates, an Irish–born, former charity–case orphan, reinvented herself from governess to heiress to anthropologist. She would become one of... More »


Wartime Notebooks
Marguerite Duras

$39.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )

Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of post-war France. She owed her success to her obstinacy to be and remain herself, come what may and at whatever cost to her own person. This previousl... More »

Copyright © 2009 Readings Pty Ltd. Site designed and developed by Inventive Labs.