Judgement of Paris by Ross King
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1863, the French painter, Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. Manet, on the other hand, was struggling in obscurity. Taking the parallel careers of Meissonier and Manet, this book uses them as a lens for their times. It shows that their paintings was not just about Art, ...Show more
Patient - Journey Through Australia by KHADRA Mohamed
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gripping, heartbreaking nonfiction story of a stranger in the strangest of lands: the Australian healthcare system. It is at once a reassurance of the ties that bind all human beings to each other, a manual for patients and a moving examination of the human spirit.
My Guantanamo Diary by Mahvish Khan
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Who exactly has America detained all these years at Guantanamo? The worst of the worst? Or the wretched of the earth? Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, she volunteered to translate for the p ...Show more
The Deserter's Tale: Why I Walked Away From The Way In Iraq by Key Joshua
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It is the devastating story of that war and the journey Key took with his family, fleeing across the US to finally seek asylum in Canada after 14 months in hiding. It is the story of a family man and patriot from Oklahoma, who went into the war believing in his government's commitment to integrity and j ...Show more
The Deserter's Tale: Why I Walked Away from the War in Iraq by Joshua Key as told to Lawrence Hill
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
I asked Sergeant Jones about the point of the war. 'There is no point, it's just your job,' he said. 'But what's the justification for this war?' 'The justification is that you signed a contract and you're told to be here.' 'But when do I get to go home?' I said. 'Private,' he said, 'we can keep yo ...Show more
Windblown World: The Journals by Jack Kerouac
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals in which he set down the raw material of his life and thoughts. In Windblown World Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal moments of Keroua ...Show more
The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton in the Victorian World by Dane Kennedy
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the "Tales of the Arabian Nights" and the "Kama Sutra", Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endea ...Show more
Wake Up : A life of the Buddha by Jack Kerouac
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works. "Wake Up" recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's royal upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a ...Show more
Lincoln by Thomas Keneally
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The life and tragedy of one of the greatest of all American presidents - by the Booker prize-winning Australian novelist. Most people know little more about the US President Abraham Lincoln than how he met his end - assassinated in a theatre box by a gunman. But as Thomas Keneally, Booker prize-winn ...Show more
Searching for Schindler by Tom Keneally
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1980 Tom Keneally was in Beverley Hills returning from the Sorrento film festival where The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith had been showing. Looking for a new briefcase, Tom meets the Polish-Jewish Leopold Pfefferberg Page aka Poldek and his life for the next few years is taken over by this charismatic an ...Show more
Leonardo by Martin Kemp
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This fascinating exploration of Leonardo Da Vinciâs life and work explains the phenomenon of one of the world's most celebrated artistic geniuses who, five hundred years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offers us exceptional insights into the mind of this exemplary Renaissance man, and i ...Show more