Robert Wainwright: 9 books

Book cover of Miss Muriel Matters

Miss Muriel Matters

The Australian actress who became one of London's most famous suffragists

by Robert Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

The Australian actress who became one of London's most famous suffragists. Discover the most inspiring woman you've never heard of ... In 1909, a young Australian actress made headlines around the world when she took to the sky over London in an airship emblazoned with the slogan 'Votes...
Book cover of The Brilliant Outsider
by Robert Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015

The first full-length biography of George Ingle Finch - maverick Australian mountaineer, scientist, concert pianist and father of actor Peter Finch.   George Ingle Finch, mountaineer, soldier, scientist, rebellious spirit, boy from the bush, was in his day one of the most famous men...
Book cover of Rose

Rose

The unauthorised biography of Rose Hancock Porteous

by Robert Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002

For two decades, Rose Hancock Porteous has fascinated Australians. The Filipina housekeeper who became the lover and then the wife of her millionaire employer has regularly created headlines, but behind the facade of the colourful socialite there is much that has not been revealed about this fabulously...
Book cover of The Lost Boy

The Lost Boy

A search for life, a triumph of outback spirit

by Robert Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004

In the stifling Australian heat of October 1993, a campsite the size of a small town was spontaneously created at a lonely desert roadhouse by the side of the Stuart Highway, which links Darwin with Alice Springs. The 1200 men and women who swagged on the unforgiving ground beside their horses, cars,...
Book cover of Sheila

Sheila

The Australian beauty who bewitched British society

by Robert Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014

Sheila wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for forty years and when she died was a Russian princess. Vivacious, confident and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Francis Edward Scudamore...
Book cover of Rocky Road

Rocky Road

The incredible true story of the fractured family behind the Darrell Lea chocolate empire

by Robert Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018

In the early 1930s, the Australian family confectionery company Darrell Lea was a sensation, its shops stacked with delicious chocolates, marshmallows, nougat and much more in line with the company's motto to 'Stack 'em high, watch 'em fly'. It was at this time that Montague Lea met the vivacious...
Book cover of Australia, You Little* Beauty

Australia, You Little* Beauty

Inside Test cricket's dream team

by Justin Langer, Robert Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

Justin Langer scored more centuries than Ian Chappell, Doug Walters or Bill Lawry and had a better average than Mark Taylor, David Boon or Mark Waugh yet lived almost every moment of his glittering Test career as if it was his last. In this intimate and at times poignant account, Langer looks...
Book cover of It's Not Okay to Be a Cannibal

It's Not Okay to Be a Cannibal

How to Keep Addiction from Eating Your Family Alive

by Andrew T Wainwright, Robert Poznanovich
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010

Today's top addiction consultants guide families devastated by a loved one’s addiction. Two of today's top addiction consultants guide families devastated by a loved one's addiction. As countless families can attest, addiction is a disease that destroys families, not just individuals. Secrecy,...
Book cover of The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV
by Evelyn Smith, Charles Shafhauser, Bryce Walton
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016

The Golden Age of Science Fiction, Volume IV, a collection of 7 awesome sci-fi classics from seminal authors, presented here on your favorite digital e-reader! Contents of Volume IV include: A Gleeb for Earth, by Charles Shafhauser The Highest Mountain, by Bryce Walton Soldier Boy, by Michael Shaara...
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