Charles Court: I Love This Place by Ronda Jamieson
$45.00 AUD
$55.00 (18% off)
Category: Biography
Charles Court - I Love This Place is an in depth look at the life and career of one of Western Australia's most successful premiers. This is the story of Sir Charles Court and the progressive and sometimes divisive decisions made during his 30-year political life. Meticulously researched and drawing on ...Show more
Charles Dickens (Illustrated) by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An illustrated guide to Charles Dickens and his works. It follows Dickens from early childhood, including his time spent as a child labourer, and looks at how he became the greatest celebrity of his age - and how he still remains recognized as one of England's greatest celebrities, even in the twenty-fi ...Show more
Chanel: Her Life, Her World, and the Woman Behind the Legend by Edmonde Charles-Roux (tr from French Nancy Amphoux)
$29.95 AUD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Biography
She revolutionized how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was an icon. But how closely did her carefully moulded image match the truth? Born illegitimate and raised in an orphanage - not by the two aunts that she invented - ...Show more
A Celtic Childhood by Bill Watkins
$22.95 AUD
$29.99 (23% off)
Category: Biography
A Celtic Childhood is the lyrical narrative of a gifted and animated storyteller. With humour and charm, Watkins blends history, song, and Celtic identity into a wonderful tale of misadventure and merriment.Watkins vividly portrays his eccentric and richly colloquial Celtic family; his vibrant Irish mam ...Show more
Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie
$24.95 AUD
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Category: Biography
In 1976 Diane Perry - by then known by her Tibetan name, Tenzin Palmo - secluded herself in a remote cave, 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, cut off from the world by mountains and snow. She entered the cave aged thirty-three and left it when she was forty-five; there she faced unimaginable cold, wild an ...Show more
Celeste: The Parisian Courtesan Who Became a Countess and Bestselling Writer by Roland Perry
$32.99 AUD
$36.99 (10% off)
Category: Biography
Courtesan, countess, bestselling author - the tempestuous true story of a woman far ahead of her time ...The true story of the Countess Celeste de Chabrillan is a rich and tempestuous tale of an extraordinary woman. Born in the gutters of Paris in 1824, Celeste made her name as a dancer in the Parisian ...Show more
Caught in the Crossfire: An Australian Peace Keeper's Perilous Journey by Matina Jewell
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 2006, while part of an unarmed UN peacekeeping team at the border junction of Lebanon, Israel, and Syria, Australian Major Matina Jewell and her colleagues were caught in a full-scale war with tragic consequences. In the days that followed she and her teammates reported hundreds of violations of the ...Show more
Catherine's Gift: Inside the World of Dr Catherine Hamlin by John Little
$24.99 AUD
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Category: Biography
Dr Catherine Hamlin has been described as a living saint and one of our greatest Australians. Since 1959 she has lived and worked in Ethiopia, helping the victims of fistulas - devastating injuries caused by obstructed labour in childbirth, which condemn women to a lifetime of incapacity and degradation ...Show more
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
$22.99 AUD
$29.99 (23% off)
Category: Biography
In the go-go nineties, Jordan Belfort proved that you didn't need to be on Wall Street to make a fortune in the stock market. His company was good at separating wealthy investors from their cash and spending it as fast as it came in--on hookers, yachts, and drugs. But when Jordan's empire crashed, the m ...Show more
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale
$19.99 AUD
$32.99 (39% off)
Category: Biography
"The amazing true story of the most extraordinary liar in the history of fun and profit! 'Irresistible! ... touches that current of larceny that lies within all of us.' (Houston Chronicle) Frank Abagnale wrote US$2.5 million in bad cheques, practised law without a licence, practised medicine with no med ...Show more