Beckett Remembering: Remembering Beckett by James Knowlson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Beckett Remembering: Remembering Beckett by James Knowlson
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A revealing tribute to a great novelist, poet and dramatist
The Pursuit of Victory : The life and achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his leadership strengths and his coolness and certainty in batt ...Show more
Clarice Cliff by Lynn Knight
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first ever full-length biography of the unique woman who changed the face of pottery and epitomised the Art Deco movement. Clarice Cliff was one of the most significant ceramic designers of the twentieth century. Her work - a 'gargantuan feast of colour' - is avidly collected and is for many the epi ...Show more
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the spanof twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end-one by ...Show more
Silent Death - Killing of Julie Ram by KISSANE Karen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Julie and Jamie Ramage were the perfect middle-class Australian couple with everything, but beneath the veneer of perfection there had been a relationship marred by affairs, obsession and a history of violence. Jamie confessed to killing his wife - but declared that he had been provoked and therefore no ...Show more
The Diaries of Victor Klemperer Lesser Evil, 1945-1959 by Victor Klemperer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The third and final volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war and whose diaries have been hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles. This volume opens in June 1945. The immediate postwar period produces many shocks and revelations - some people ...Show more
SHADOWED DAYS by KINNANE, GARRY
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'In Shadowed Days, Garry Kinnane imaginatively transforms the circumstances of his family's life - the sadness, hardship, dislocation and confrontation with deathinto a compelling narrative The book glows with humanity, with an understanding and wisdom born of privation and endurance.'Tom Petsinis, auth ...Show more
Shadow Lines by Stephen Kinnane
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Shadow Lines is the story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East Kimberley and taken from her Aboriginal family at the age of five, and Edward Smith, a young Englishman escaping the rigid structures of London. In a society deeply divided on racial lines, Edward and Jessie met, fell in love and marrie ...Show more
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco; and, at twelve thousand square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such pro ...Show more