The Girl in the Green Jumper - My Life with the Artist Cyril Mann by Mark Hudson (Foreword by); Renske Mann
$79.95 AUD
Category: Biography
When it comes to deciding the most tragic British artist of the 20th century, Cyril Mann (1911-80) must be a contender. Mann made a number of genuinely innovative breakthroughs and certainly had the potential to become one of the most important figurative painters of his time. Yet struggling with me ...Show more
Radical Football: Jurgen Griesbeck and the Story of Football for Good by Steve Fleming
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From using football to promote peace on the gangland streets of Medellín, to building a global network of 'Football for Good'organisations, Jürgen Griesbeck is now, through Common Goal, leading transformational change across the football industry. Set up in partnership with World Cup-winner Juan Mata, a ...Show more
Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After Near Death by Caroline Barron
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are? Caroline Barron's father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she n ...Show more
Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats AndThe People And Places That Inspired Him by Kevin Connolly
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted his life and stimulated his vast body of work. Meet ...Show more
Legend and Legacy Saint Patrick: Life by Marian Broderick
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
An engaging and rich exploration of Saint Patrick and his extraordinary influence on the world. Forced into slavery at the age of fifteen, Patrick overcame all hardship to fulfil his calling: to bring the people of Ireland into the light of God's word. He carried out his mission of conversion and care a ...Show more
Ravenscar House: A Biography by Sally Blundell
$65.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Many exciting new buildings have arisen from the rubble of post-earthquake Christchurch but none, perhaps, is as remarkable as Ravenscar House in the heart of the city's heritage precinct. 'Ravenscar House: A biography' explores the story of this unique, purpose-built house museum as the realisation of ...Show more
Wild Irish Love: Great Romances from History by Marian Broderick
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The greatest Irish romances from history to the present day. With chapters on Inspirations, Love War, Love Across the Divide, Secrets Scandals and When Love Goes Wrong, among others, Marian Broderick tells of the men and women whose passions drove them to be together: often in the face of society, fam ...Show more
Best Loved Bernard Shaw by George Bernard Shaw
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Best-Loved Irish Writers Ser.
An attractive and approachable selection of the work of George Bernard Shaw. One of the most remarkable writers of the 20th century, Shaw contributed in a range of ways to both political and social writings as well as creating great works of literature. Shaw is one of only two people to have won both an ...Show more
Tea for One by Alice Taylor
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Many of us spend the later years of life living solo when children have grown up and moved on. Others choose this lifestyle. We get used to being on our own while also enjoying family and communal occasions. But 2020 brought new challenges to this solo lifestyle. We rose to the first challenge thinking ...Show more
Chamberlain to Henry VIII The: William Sandys of the Vyne King's Chamberlain by John Jenkins
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The book looks at the life, activities and achievements of William, 1st Baron Sandys, Knight of the Garter. It is the story of a Hampshire man who, during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, achieved prominence from a relatively modest but well connected background. He was very close to centres of p ...Show more
The Escape of Jack the Ripper : The Full Truth About the Cover-up and His Flight from Justice by Jonathan Hainsworth ChristineWard-Agius
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
For nearly 100 years, the question has repeatedly been asked: who was 'Jack the Ripper'? The real question that should be answered, however, is why? Why were five poor, defenceless women savagely murdered in the slums of Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888? Credible Victorian sources including an Old Eton ...Show more
Bloody Sunday: A Fifty-Year Fight for Justice by Ian Hernon
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
On 30 January 1972, the day that became known as Bloody Sunday is remembered as one of the darkest and bloodiest events of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Thirteen people were killed outright when members of the British Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in the Bogside ...Show more