$34.95$29.95 (Paperback book / Pier 9 / ISBN:9781921208232)
Holding Up The Sky: An African Life
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 the most tumultuous and significant events in the history of the nation, including the release of Nelson Mandela. Through her community development work she met the man who was to become her husband, together seeking to contribute to the rebuilding and transformation of a post apartheid nation. Sandy tells her personal story with honesty, passion, intelligence and humour.
March 2008 Biographies
Births Deaths Marriages
$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 »
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I Peed On Fellini
$34.95$29.95 (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
$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
$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
$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 »
African Biographies
