Biography

Sailing Alone: A History

Sailing Alone: A History

Richard J. King
2899
Paddington NSW, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, Non-Fiction,ESSAYS / NEW JOURNALISM,Olivia Laing,Paperback / softback,,,EN,art, theory, criticism, journalism, essays, personal, reporting, reviews, artists, writers, musicians, outsiders, queer, lgbt, gay, homosexual, AIDS, HIV, eighties, activism, protest, politics, resistance, rebellion, inspiration, hope, biography, life writing, love, history

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Olivia Laing
1999
Paddington NSW, Doom Guy: Life in First Person, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,John Romero,Paperback / softback,,,BI,video game industry,gaming,computers,programming,programmers,design,developer,wolfenstein 3d,quake,first person shooter,id software,john carmack,inspirational,fps,gifts,gamers,nerds,esports

Doom Guy: Life in First Person

John Romero
2999
Paddington NSW, A Paper Inheritance, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Dymphna Stella Rees,Paperback / softback,,,BI,

A Paper Inheritance

Dymphna Stella Rees
3299
Paddington NSW, No Name in the Street, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,James Baldwin,Paperback / softback,,,BI,penguin modern classics, history books, black history, british black history, educated a memoir, biographies and autobiographies, black literature, black authors non-fiction, black history uk, black authors, black feminism, new autobiographies, black history month, american history, biographies, widowish a memoir, vietnam war memoirs, autobiography, memoirs, autobiographys

No Name in the Street

James Baldwin
2299
Paddington NSW, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,William Finnegan,Paperback / softback,,,BI,william hill sports book of the year, bookie prize, pulitzer prize biography, president obama reading list, the new yorker, surfing, hawaii, travelogue

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan
2499
Paddington NSW, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Azar Nafisi,Paperback / softback,,,BI,margaret atwood, lolita, susan sontag, vladimir nabokov, middle east, iraq war books, the rebellion chronicles, dystopian non-fiction, nonfiction, sciece non-fiction, science non-fiction anthology, feminism, post apocalyptic non-fiction, terror in tehran, a survivors tale, the survivalist, doing rebellious research, insurrection, uprising, autobiography, biography, politics, essays, biographies

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi
2299
Paddington NSW, Open: An Autobiography, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Andre Agassi,Paperback / softback,,,BI,competitive,tennis, true,truth,behind, steffi graf, wimbledon, world,leading,winning, grand,slam, brooke shields, record,breaking, thrilling,gripping, super,sports,champion,winner,, growing up,coming of age,, hard-hitting, training,train

Open: An Autobiography

Andre Agassi
2499
Paddington NSW, The Year of Magical Thinking, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Joan Didion,Paperback / softback,,,BI,blue nights,slouching towards bethelehem,where I was from,a book of common prayer,john gregory dunne,marriage,american classic,essayist,journalist,journalism,gonzo,70s,california,LAX,grief,loss,widow,widower,death,dying,illness,sickness,terminal,terminally,ill,vanessa redgrave,dying,family,widowhood,literary memoir,natasha richardson,quintana,daughter,memories,mind,remember,brain,s,surgery,parenthood

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion
2499
Paddington NSW, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: The powerful memoir from the beloved star of Friends, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Matthew Perry,Paperback / softback,,,BI,Matthew Perry, Chandler, Friends, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, drugs, alcohol, addiction, therapy, memoir, rehab, Chandler Bing, painkillers

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: The powerful memoir from the beloved star of Friends

Matthew Perry
2499
Paddington NSW, Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Brendan Greaves,Hardback,,,BI,architects, art, artist, biography, book, country, creative, entertainment, gift, history, Memoir, men, music, people, performing, photographers, songwriter, women

Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography

Brendan Greaves
5999
Paddington NSW, Naked Portrait: A Memoir of my Father Lucian Freud, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Rose Boyt,Hardback,,,BI,Lucian Freud, womanhood, 1970s, art, memoir, punk scene, gift, feminsim, London, family memoir, Freuds, photography, Andy Warhol, music, emotional

Naked Portrait: A Memoir of my Father Lucian Freud

Rose Boyt
4499
Paddington NSW, Behind the Wall: My Brother, My Family and Hatred in East Germany, Non-Fiction,HISTORY,Ines Geipel (Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin, Germany),Hardback,,,HI,East Germany, GDR, East Berlin, Berlin Wall, Honecker, Ulbricht, division of Germany, Nazi, National Socialism, communism, USSR, foreigner hatred, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, Pegida, secret service, Stasi, family history, biography, Cold War, doping, doping scandal

Behind the Wall: My Brother, My Family and Hatred in East Germany

Ines Geipel (Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin, Germany)
4195
Paddington NSW, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Non-Fiction,CULTURAL STUDIES,Patrick Radden Keefe,Paperback / softback,,,CU,dopesick, painkiller book, Purdue Pharma, opioid crisis, Oxycontin, drug addiction, biography, true crime books, true stories, narrative reporting, Succession, True crime biographies

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe
2499
Paddington NSW, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Katherine Rundell,Paperback / softback,,,BI,John Donne, Renaissance, Mary Beard, Keats, Maggie O'Farrell, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Peter Ackroyd

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022

Katherine Rundell
2299
Paddington NSW, The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Simon Kuper,Paperback / softback,,,BI,traitor, espionage, betrayal, war, world war two, british intelligence service, spy, spies, spying, KGB, double agent, autobiography, Russia, USSR, Cold War, Iron Curtain, Guy Burgess, Stalin, ben macintyre

The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

Simon Kuper
2299
Paddington NSW, Whitewash: The Lost Story of an African Australian, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,John Ogden,Paperback / softback,,,BI,

Whitewash: The Lost Story of an African Australian

John Ogden
3999
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J. D. Vance
2499
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy

Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy

Bill Browder
2499
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe
2499
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Hunter S. Thompson
1499
Paddington NSW,Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Ann Patchett,Hardback,BI

These Precious Days

Ann Patchett
2299
Paddington NSW,Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Stanley Tucci,Hardback,Latest Releases,BI

Taste: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Stanley Tucci
2299
Paddington NSW, Non-Fiction,BIOGRAPHY,Matthew Perry,Paperback / softback,BI

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: 'Funny, fascinating and compelling' The Times

Matthew Perry
3499