October 2008 Biographies
The Death Of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis And The Rise Of Fundamentalism
$26.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
This thoughtful and engaging book concentrates on the last two years of Freud’s life, when he fled Nazi-occupied Vienna for London. Edmundson traces the twin trajectories of Freud and Hitler, whose rise dismayed but did ... More »
The Many Lives Of Kenneth Myer
$59.99 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
When Kenneth Baillieu Myer’s father fell dead on the footpath in 1934, Ken's life changed in that instant. As the elder son of the Jewish immigrant retailing genius, Sidney Baevski Myer, who went from pedlar to philanthr... More »
The Costello Memoirs
$54.99$44.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Government.
In a political career spanning eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasure... More »
The Two Kinds Of Decay
$27.95 (Hardcover book / Hunter )
At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, vanishing and then returning... More »
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Dear Fatty: My Autobiography Of Me
$34.95$29.95 (Trade paperback / Century )
Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, wtih a career that has spanned nearly three decades, encompassing a vast and brilliant array of characters. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achie... More »
Arabesques
$49.99 (Hardcover book / Picador )
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andr Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as ... More »
House Of Exile
$32.99 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
In 1933 the prominent author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger were forced to flee Germany, finding refuge in France and later, in great despair, Los Angeles. There Nelly committed suicid... More »
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The Land I Came Through Last
$34.95 (Paperback book / Giramonndo )
The most important literary biography of 2008! Robert Gray is widely acknowledged as one of our nation's finest poets. Here, he pens his autobiography - a unique and important Australian story. More »
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China Witness
$34.95$29.95 (Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus )
In 1912, 5,000 years of feudal rule ended in China. Warlords, Western businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, and Japanese all ruled China, exploited, and fought one another, and the Chinese. In 1949, Mao Zedong came to pow... More »
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The Orange Trees Of Baghdad: In Search Of A Vanishing Life
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Born to an Iraqi-Christian father and a British mother, and raised in Britain and Canada, Leilah Nadir has never set foot on Iraqi soil. Distanced from her Iraqi roots through immigration and now cut off by war, the clos... More »
The Same Man: George Orwell And Evelyn Waugh In Love And War
$29.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
For literature buffs and history enthusiasts, this is the first biography to compare George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh - two of the greatest 20th century English writers.
Both authors need little introduction. Orwell and Wa... More »
Me Cheeta: The Autobiography
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )
The greatest Hollywood Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, died in 1984. His coffin was lowered into the ground to the recorded sounds of his famous jungle call. Maureen O'Sullivan, his Jane, died in 1998. Weissmuller's son, who... More »
Doing Life: A Biography Of Elizabeth Jolley
$34.95 (Paperback book / Univ. West Aust Press )
Although she started writing early in life it was not until her fifties that Elizabeth Jolley received the recognition her talent deserved. She won The Age Book of the Year Award on three occasions as well as the Miles F... More »