Mr. Nice by Howard Marks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Condition: **NEW** During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing. Marks began to de ...Show more
Senor Nice by Howard Marks
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The long awaited sequel to Mr Nice. Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career. So he wrote two best-selling books, became a sports writer and t ...Show more
Written Lives by Javier Marias
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
This is a playful glimpse into the personalities of twenty-five of the most significant writers of the last one hundred and fifty years. Inspired to revisit the lives of some of the world's most eminent writers of all time, looking at them from the angle of some peculiar detail of their lives, Javier Ma ...Show more
Kate: The Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn by William J. Mann
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
William J. Mann charts the journey by which Kathy Hepburn of Hartford, Connecticut, became the star who dazzled audiences for decades in the company of such luminaries as Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and, most memorably, Spencer Tracy, with whom she made nine movies and conducted a long off-screen romance ...Show more
Helena Rubinstein: The Australian Years by Angus Trumble
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behind This meticulously researched and wryly entertaining portrait of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) focuses on the years she spent in Australia as a young woman, recoveri ...Show more
Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Helen Elliott’s Eleven Letters to You is a profoundly original memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, before feminism. This sparkling, wonderfully absorbing book is written in the form of eleven letters to those neighbours, relatives, friends, ...Show more