Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this beautifully illustrated, impeccably written full-scale biography we finally discover the history of the incredible woman who created the way we look n ...Show more
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this critically acclaimed, bestselling biography she shares the history of the incredible woman who created the way we look now. Coco Chanel was an extraor ...Show more
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed wane ...Show more
Cockatoo: My Life in Cape York by Roy McIvor
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The exile of the Indigenous population of Hope Valley - in the coastal region of Cape York in far north Queensland - during World War II is a shameful yet seldom-told chapter in Indigenous Australian history. Roy McIvor was just 10 when he, his family and his community were rounded up by the military an ...Show more
Cocaine and Surfing: An Outrageous Expose by Chas Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ex-war correspondent and surfer Chas Smith takes the reader on a wild ride in this outrageously honest expose of surfing culture and cocaine use. For readers of SCAR TISSUE by Anthony Kiedis, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET by Jordan Belfort, MP: THE LIFE OF MICHAEL PETERSON by Sean Doherty and OCCY: THE RISE A ...Show more
Loretta LynnCoal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Loretta Lynn's classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry. Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and a grandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become one of the m ...Show more
Clouds in a Glass of Beer - Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics by Craig F. Bohren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ever wonder why steam rises from a bowl of hot soup or why a greenhouse retains heat? And have you ever puzzled over the real meaning of "once in a blue moon" or why sand is darker when it's wet than when it's dry? And just why, exactly, do bubbles appear in a glass of beer when you add salt to it?These ...Show more
Clint: The Life and Legend by Patrick McGilligan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One of the most revealing and hard-hitting biographies of a Hollywood film star in recent times, this book discloses the controversial truth about Clint Eastwood and dispels the carefully preserved mysteries of his past. For nearly 30 years, Clint has topped the box-office again and again. Like so many ...Show more
Clive: The Story of Clive Palmer by Sean Parnell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Big-spending Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer bought a football team, helped create a political party, and is set to recreate the 'Titanic' and build a dinosaur park. But are these just fanciful splurges or something more calculated? The reality is that Palmer uses his immense mining wealth (estimate ...Show more
Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Leigh Mallory by George Leigh Mallory
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In Climbing Everest, George Mallory (18 June 1886 - 8/9 June 1924), possibly the first man to summit Everest, takes us with him on his climbs in Britain and the Alps, culminating in his three expeditions to Mount Everest - the last of which cost him his life (a few days after the final piece in this b ...Show more
The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women in Power by Geraldine Doogue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Iconic journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue turns her attention to an issue central to our times. How are we, as women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia? In candid and personal conversations with fourteen women leading the way in fields as wide-ranging as business, pol ...Show more
Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra--one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters. Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history--and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most int ...Show more