(Paperback)

From an early age Goya was anxious to preserve a record of his life, but few of his writings have survived and his most personal records appear in his letters. Goya's surviving letters reveal a highly emotional man, prepared to state his feelings as passionately to the authorities of a Cathedral as to a close friend.

(Paperback)

The fascinating story of Bert Hinkler - the pilot the world forgot.

(Paperback)

A world champion's blueprint for peak performance. From Australian Junior Champion to World Champion -- the inspiring story of what it takes to make it to the top.

(Paperback)

The heart-warming true story of Australia's Clown Doctors and the children who inspire them

(Paperback)

Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the real man behind the masks This work set out to solve this riddle and discovers a hero whose greatness owed as much to his weaknesses as to his strengths.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Riley also explores Lennon in all his contradictions: the misogynist turned peace activist, the moralist who loved to outrage and the 'bigger than Christ' LSD enthusiast who settled down to become a house-husband.
A pre-eminent scholar of Beatles music, Riley has consulted some of the most important Beatles scholarship of the past two decades.

(Paperback)

The author describes how his autistic son, Owen, learned to cope with his handicap from a young age by memorizing the dialogue of Disney movies and having his family play the roles of the animated characters.

(Paperback)

First published 25 years ago, this biography of the Sun King uses contemporary sources to examine what sort of monarch Louis XIV really was.

(Paperback)

And why footballers are in fact underpaid.

Packed with amusing anecdotes, bustling with great football stories and full of strong opinions, Lovejoy on Football is the must-have football book of 2007.

(Hardback)

A breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraits

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A reissued edition of the definitive biography of Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

'The man who has no imagination Stands on earth He has no wings He cannot fly' Muhammad Ali Just off Highway 61 in northern Pennsylvania, up the dirt drive of a wooded hill lay a place called Fighter's Heaven.

(Hardback)

Hugo Chavez's extraordinary story-in his own words

(Paperback)

Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea Handler loves men and lots of them. MY HORIZONTAL LIFE chronicles her romp through the bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A unique autobiography in images from seven decades of Duncan's photographic career explores the broad range of human nature, from the most quiet notes of life to the crashing crescendos of war.

(Paperback)

A son of a Sri Lankan father and Burmese mother, the author grew up in South London. Every day his mother would conjur delicious meals out of thin air. His father cooked too, with fiery flavourings, black curries and green coriander chutneys. This book presents a memoir of his heritage and his home, of curry leaves and curried chips, and more.

(Paperback)

A collection of true stories that confirms Augusten Burroughs' position as one of our top satirists and memoirists.

(Hardback)

The story behind the world's most iconic and revolutionary chef.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Recognized today as the greatest sculptor of all time, whose expressive style prefigured that of the modernist movement and abstract sculpture, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) stirred up much controversy during his lifetime. This title traces his life and work, from his youth to his most celebrated works - The Kiss, The Thinker, The Gates of Hell.