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Go Ahead in the Rain - Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here ...Show more
Blood, Sweat and the Sea by Mike Swinson; Georgie Pajak; Nicole Mays
$79.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Biography of Tasmanian Robert John Muir: a remarkable man and export champion. He started a world-renowned maritime winch, anchoring and mooring systems manufacturing company.
Brave New Medicine by CYNTHIA LI
$37.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In this revelatory memoir, doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth about her struggle with a disabling autoimmune illness, the limitations of Western medicine, and what sufferers need to know to truly begin healing--mind, body, and spirit. Cynthia Li had it all: a successful career in medicine, a loving marr ...Show more
Oscar's Ghost - The Battle for Oscar Wilde's Legacy by Laura Lee
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"In all his life Oscar] has never written me a letter that was unkind or at least unloving and to see anything terrible in his handwriting written directly to me would almost kill me"' This was written by Lord Alfred Douglas in 1897, before the contents of Oscar Wilde's long letter written in prison and ...Show more
Writing Home by Polly Devlin; Joan Bakewell (Foreword by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Polly Devlin is a writer, broadcaster and filmmaker. She holds an OBE for services to literature. After spending her childhood in Northern Ireland, at the age of twenty-two she took up her first job--as a writer, and soon features editor--on British Vogue, at the heart of 1960s London. A couple of years ...Show more
A Lesson in Art and Life - The Enchanted World of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett Haines by Hugh St Clair; Philip Mould (Foreword by)
$74.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Interest in mid-20th century British artists and the world they inhabited is growing internationally--prices are rising and exhibitions proliferate. This biography focuses on the couple who were at the centre of the Modern British art scene: Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (1894-1978). ...Show more
Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand by Catherine Bishop
$44.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealands nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. A surprising number ran their own businesses, supporting themselves and t ...Show more
Virginia Woolf at Home by Hilary MacAskill; Cecil Woolf (Foreword by)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Virginia Woolf, figurehead of the Bloomsbury Group and an innovative writer whose experimental style and lyrical prose ensured her position as one of the most influential of modern novelists, was also firmly anchored in the reality of the houses she lived in and those she visited regularly. Detailed and ...Show more
They Can't Kill Us until They Kill Us by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In a collection of essays published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others - along with original, previously unreleased essays ' Hanif Abdurraqib explores the political, social, racial condition of our world today through the language of music and culture. From discussions over public d ...Show more
After the Conquest: the Family of William of Normandy - Struggle for the Crown by Teresa Cole
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
On his deathbed William the Conqueror divided his property between his three sons, Robert, William and Henry. One of them got England, one got Normandy and one 5,000 of silver. None of them was satisfied with what he received. It took much violence, treachery, sudden death and twenty years before one of ...Show more
The Unconventional Career of Dr Muriel Bell by Diana Brown
$38.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Whether or not you have heard of pioneering nutritionist Muriel Bell, she has had a profound effect on your health.Appointed New Zealand's first state nutritionist in 1940, a position she held for almost a quarter- century, Muriel Bell was behind ground-breaking public health schemes such as milk in sch ...Show more
Every Morning, So Far, I'm Alive: A Memoir by Wendy Parkins
$38.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Every morning, so far, I’m alive is about what it’s like to live in a world where shaking a stranger’s hand, catching a taxi or touching a door handle are fraught with fear and dread. This memoir charts the author’s breakdown after migrating from New Zealand to England: what begi ...Show more