Biography

Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A gripping masterpiece'...

Author: Ronnie James Dio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Ronnie James Dio was a heavy metal icon and frontman of three of the best-selling, most influential and famous rock...

Author: Viv Groskop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian...

Author: Justus Rosenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the...

Author: Paul Auster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling...

Author: Karen Olsson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick A wonderful book. --Patti Smith I was riveted. Olsson is...

Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 This impeccably researched and "adventure-packed" (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create...

Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child SAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold...

Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he...

Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...

Author: Allan Kozinn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in...

Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...

Author: Peter Kaldheim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who...

Author: Hof Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into...

Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...

Author: Geena Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times Film and...

Author: Brad Ricca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full...

Author: Lauren Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to...

Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...

Author: Brendan Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 ** Shortlisted, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, NSW Community & Regional History Prize ** For lovers of natural history, this is...

Author: Alberto Manguel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. "The...

Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...

Author: Ranulph Fiennes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'Always the leader and always the best' Bear Grylls 'Fiennes has so much to fit in, it's a wonder to grasp...

Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what do we...

Author: Lesley Chamberlain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde...

Author: Richard Greene Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told...

Author: Martyn Ware Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...

Author: Jesse Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is...

Author: Evan Osnos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former...

Author: Alex Halberstadt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a...

Author: Lizzy Hawker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Scared witless and surrounded by a sea of people, Lizzy Hawker stands in the church square at the centre...

Author: Sarah Bax Horton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most...

Author: Michael S Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level bass-baritone voice and sombre demeanour, for huge hits like "Ring...

Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the...

Author: Paul Brannigan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in...

Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...

Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...

Author: Catherine Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits,...

Author: Derek Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto...

Author: Shahrukh Husain Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves... Banshees - a howling night-witch and...

Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...

Author: Ameliah Scott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 My journey to the skies and the people and animals of the Australian outback 'Scott is devoted to bringing veterinarian services...

Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates Jordan's story...

Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the legendary physicist's...

Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...

Author: Mitch Albom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS 'Mitch Albom sees the...

Author: Louise Callaghan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba...

Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...