Readings Recommends: Biographies
Two Lives: Gertrude And Alice
$32.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
Staff review This book is a real treat. Written by one of the world’s great writers, about two of the twentieth century’s most intriguing literary fi gures, (modernist master Gertrude Stein and ‘worker bee’ Alice B. Tokl... More »
Through The Childrens Gate: A Home In New York
$29.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
The bestselling author of Paris to the Moon delivers another charming collection of outsider-looking-in tales of one of the world’s great cities. This time, it’s New York, which he falls in love with all over again as he... More »
Look Me In The Eye: My Life With Aspergers
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
From the time he was three or four, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with other children, much to his distress, and by the time he was a te... More »
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Gonzo: The Life Of Hunter S Thompson
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Sphere )
Few American lives are stranger or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channelling his energy into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - and his p... More »
Resistance: A Childhood Fighting For East Timor
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )
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Memories, Dreams And Reflections
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )
'On stage I may seem Athena in her breastplate but visitors arriving backstage find this wuzzly little person. There's a paradox between that person and the Marianne Faithfull marionette that I manipulate, groom, dress u... More »
Machiavelli: Eminent Lives
$30.00 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli's handbook on power - how to get it and how to keep it - has been enormously influential in the centuries since it was written, garnering a heady mixture of admiration, fear, and contempt.... More »
Rudolf Nureyev
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Penguin )
In this authorized biography using many never-before-seen papers and letters and unprecedented interviews with dancers, family, friends and lovers, Julie Kavanagh tells how the little boy who was born on a train in Siber... More »
Arthur Boyd: A Life
$65.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
Although much has been written about the Boyd family, there has never been a book devoted exclusively to Arthur Boyd: one of Australia's greatest artists. This memoir is an absorbing and ultimately very moving piece that... More »
Bad Faith: A Story Of Family And Fatherland
$29.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government's and w... More »
Committed A Rabble Rousers Memoir
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster )
Dan Mathews is the marketing force behind PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In his memoir Committed he offers the complete story of his remarkable life and outrageous career at PETA, recounting the most... More »
Bernard Shaw: A Life
$16.95 (Hardcover book / Univ Nsw Pr )
Bernard Shaw was, more than most, the architect of his own life story. The prolific writer not only produced many autobiographical works, but also fed biographers with a wealth of material to work from. However, it is be... More »
Born Standing Up
$34.95 (Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster )
Steve Martin hasn’t done stand-up since 1981. In *Born Standing Up*, the celebrated actor, writer and comedy genius muses on his early career, revealing the tricks and techniques that took him from vaudeville to fame on ... More »
Daughter Of The Desert
$65.00 (Hardcover book / Macmillan )
At a time when women were still largely excluded from both education and the workplace, Gertrude Bell was an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer and mountaineer – but until the Iraq War of 2... More »