Skip to main content

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...


« leigh straw »

1-12 sur 12 résultats pour « leigh straw »
Skip side bar filters
  • The Worst Woman in Sydney

    The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh

    par Leigh Straw ...
    Despite having more than 100 criminal convictions to her name, Kate Leigh is also remembered as a local hero, giving money to needy families and supporting her local community through the hard times of Depression and war. Here, novelist and historian Leigh Straw teases out the full story of how this wayward Reformatory girl from Dubbo made a fortune in eastern Sydney and defied the gender ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Petticoat Parade

    Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels

    par Leigh Straw ...
    Josie de Bray, aka Madam Monnier, aka Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the 1940s. A returned soldier tried to shoot her dead in her brothel in 1917 and her 'bungalow' was at the centre of underworld violence in the 1920s. She returned to France before WWII to visit family and was bombed repeatedly out of homes there and captured by the ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Ballroom Murder

    par Leigh Straw ...
    In August 1925, Audrey Jacob shot dead her former fiancé, Cyril Gidley, in full view of hundreds of guests at a charity ball in Perth's Government House. When she was arrested, she still held the gun in her hand. It was a open and shut case of wilful murder—that is until Jacob assigned prosecutor Arthur Haynes to her defence. His ability to play the press and the jury for sympathy would lead to a ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Angel Of Death

    Dulcie Markham, Australia's most beautiful bad woman

    par Leigh Straw ...
    The newspapers called her 'Australia's most beautiful bad woman' and she was deadly to know...This is the story of 'pretty' Dulcie Markham, a key figure of the underworld of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, who, according to one crime reporter, 'saw more violence and death than any other woman in Australia's history'. Nicknamed the 'Black Widow' and 'Angel of Death' by the crooks, reporters ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944

    The Summer That Changed Everything

    par Leigh Straw ...
    The Kennedys considered their home in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod, 'The big white house', to be a haven from their busy lives. Yet in the summer of 1944, against the backdrop of WWII, the events that unfolded for them there changed the family forever.Beginning in the May of that year, The Kennedys at Cape Cod 1944 paints an intimate picture of those few months. As the younger Kennedy children and their ... En savoir plus

    $19.09 CAD

  • Lillian Armfield

    How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face of the force

    par Leigh Straw ...
    An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman - Australia's first female detective - LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydney's organised crime underbelly.'Special Constable' Lillian Armfield was policing Sydney's mean streets during some of the most dramatic years of crime in the city. By the late 1920s, eastern Sydney was the heartland of ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Livre audio

    The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944

    The Summer That Changed Everything

    par Leigh Straw ...
    Lu par Patricia Rodriguez ...

    Version Longue

    5 heure 12 min

    Bloomsbury presents The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944: The Summer That Changed Everything by Leigh Straw, read by Patricia Rodriguez.The Kennedys considered their home in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod, ‘The big white house’, to be a haven from their busy lives. Yet in the summer of 1944, against the backdrop of WWII, the events that unfolded for them there changed the family forever.Beginning in the May of ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

Les lecteurs de ces romans ont aussi aimé

  • The House of Kennedy

    par James Patterson ...
    From the world's #1 bestselling author, the story of the Kennedy family ... not the one you think you know.Now with a bonus chapter!“James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history ... re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style.” —PeopleThe Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Patriarch

    The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

    par David Nasaw ...
    2013 Pulitzer Prize FinalistNew York Times Ten Best Books of 2012“Riveting…The Patriarch is a book hard to put down.” – Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this magisterial new work The Patriarch, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Nasaw—the only biographer granted ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Alfred Hitchcock

    A Life in Darkness and Light

    Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all time.In a career that spanned six decades and produced more than 60 films – including The 39 Steps, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds – Alfred Hitchcock set new standards for cinematic invention and storytelling. Acclaimed biographer Patrick ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Peter Lawford Story

    Life with the Kennedys, Monroe, and the Rat Pack

    As the brother in law to JFK and a member of the Rat Pack, Peter Lawford was one of America's most acclaimed movie stars.Lawford led an extraordinary life. His story, as told by the woman who knew him best, is the always candid, sometimes shocking unveiling of the most intriguing show business personalities and significant political events of our time.Now fully updated and revised for 2014 this is ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this “masterful” (The Economist) biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president.“An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD