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by Joel Creasey
We know what you’re thinking.
WWho wants to read an ho wants to read an
autobiography of somautobiography of someone who eone who
hasn’t even celebrated their 30hasn’t even celebrated their 30thth
birthday? Wbirthday? Well, the answer is that ell, the answer is that
it depends who it is. If it’s Joel it depends who it is. If it’s Joel
Creasey, protégé of Joan Rivers Creasey, protégé of Joan Rivers
and and GGQQ’s 2016 Com’s 2016 Comedian of the Year, edian of the Year,
then everyone should. Although then everyone should. Although
he’s only 27, the self-titled he’s only 27, the self-titled
‘acid-tongued Prince’ has been ‘acid-tongued Prince’ has been
performperforming on stage for ming on stage for more than ore than
a decade – with all the various highs a decade – with all the various highs
and lows chronicled in this hilarious and lows chronicled in this hilarious
account of his life, so far. account of his life, so far.
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by Jonathan Eig
He was the greatest boxer of all time
– possibly the greatest athlete – but – possibly the greatest athlete – but
he was also a lot mhe was also a lot more than that. ore than that.
MMuhamuhammmad Ali was one of the mad Ali was one of the most ost
comcomplex, influential figures of the plex, influential figures of the
2020 thth century. A fighter who was century. A fighter who was
a pacifist, a devout Ma pacifist, a devout Muslimuslim
who was an unfaithful husband, and who was an unfaithful husband, and
a gifted sportsma gifted sportsman whose later an whose later
years were myears were marked by a painful arked by a painful
physical decline. Drawing on mphysical decline. Drawing on more ore
than 500 interviews, this is a than 500 interviews, this is a
definitive account of his life, career definitive account of his life, career
and imand impact – not just on sport, pact – not just on sport,
but on history.but on history.
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WITH BOB
by Bob Hawke
and Derek Rielly
Bob Hawke was not just Australia’s
longest-serving Labor primlongest-serving Labor prime e
mminister, but was also by far our inister, but was also by far our
mmost popular. His approval rating ost popular. His approval rating
reached a staggering 75 per cent reached a staggering 75 per cent- a feat that m– a feat that might have somight have something ething
to do with the fact he once held a to do with the fact he once held a
world record for beer drinking. world record for beer drinking.
Based on weekly chats between Based on weekly chats between
Hawke and Sydney-based journo, Hawke and Sydney-based journo,
Rielly, this is a revealing insight into Rielly, this is a revealing insight into
the cigar-toting figure we all the cigar-toting figure we all
know and (still) love.know and (still) love.
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LEONARDO
DA VINCI
by Walter Isaacson
Responsible for the world’s most
famfamous painting, the ‘Mous painting, the ‘Mona Lisa’, ona Lisa’,
Leonardo da Vinci’s talents spanned Leonardo da Vinci’s talents spanned
art, science and mart, science and more. He designed ore. He designed
flying mflying machines, explored comachines, explored complex plex
mmathemathematics, and studied fossils, atics, and studied fossils,
botany and geology. Sourced frombotany and geology. Sourced from
thousands of pages of da Vinci’s thousands of pages of da Vinci’s
own notebooks, this is the latest own notebooks, this is the latest
biography frombiography from a m a man who knows an who knows
a thing or two about geniuses a thing or two about geniuses
– having written previous tom– having written previous tomes es
on Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein.on Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein.
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