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Tell Me I'm Okay: A Doctor's Story by David Bradford
29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Biography Ser.
'Throughout my years of practice, people have often asked me why I decided to specialise in sexual health. The question is not surprising given that sexual health doctors are not held in the same regard as those who work in other medical specialties ... We sexual health physicians don't grow rich, but w ...Show more
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Biography and Autobiography Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZECHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATORTHE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Explosively enjoyable, bursting with life and art ... A centr ...Show more
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
69.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Biography and Autobiography Ser.
The second half of William Feaver's Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted work of biography- the definitive story of the epic life of one of the twentieth century's most important artists William Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most. Ove ...Show more
The Power Broker - Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life by Michael Gawenda
39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Biography Ser.
From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel. Mark Leibler grew up in this community, and in time became a leader of it. This book shows how Leibler rose to a ...Show more
The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by Cathy Perkins
29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Biography Ser.
Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman, who looked like a Sunday school teacher, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of sonnets. She was hailed as a genius, and many expected her to endure as a hous ...Show more
Two Frank Thrings by Peter Fitzpatrick
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Biography Ser.
They shared a name, of course, and their physical resemblance was startling. And both Frank Thrings were huge figures in the landscape of twentieth-century Australian theatre and film. But in many ways they could hardly have been more different. Frank Thring the father (1882-1936) began his career as a ...Show more
Unrequited Love: Diary of an Accidental Activist by Dennis Altman
29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Biography Ser.
Dennis Altman's long obsession with the United States began when he went there as a graduate student during Lyndon Johnson's Presidency. His early writing stemmed from the counter-culture that developed in the States in the mid-1960s. Altman was involved in early Gay Liberation, and his 1971 study Homos ...Show more