Try Hard: Tales from the Life of a Needy Overachiever by Em Rusciano
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
A hilarious, heartfelt memoir from one of Australia's most adored performers. Funny, feisty and fabulous, Em Rusciano's insights into her world of mayhem, marriage and motherhood are a laugh-out-loud, cry-out-loud balm for the soul. From her exploits at the Miss Sheila Fancypants School of Dance and her ...Show more
Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart by Judith Lucy
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Judith Lucy was just Great! Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, she was menopausal, she suspected her career was in the shitter and it seemed like the world was going to hell in a handbasket – but she was about to move in with the love of her life! Everything would work out ...Show more
Twentieth-Century Man - The Wild Life of Peter Beard by Christopher Wallace
$65.00 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his legendary lif ...Show more
Ubuntu: One Woman's Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa by Heather Ellis
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
As you travel Africa, you will find the way of ubuntu - the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one. At the age of twenty-eight, while sitting in a friend's backyard in the remote mining township of Jabiru, Heather Ellis has a light-bulb moment: she is going to ride a motorcycle across A ...Show more
Under the Rainbow - Voices from Lockdown by James Attlee
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
As Britain entered lockdown in the spring of 2020, drawings, paintings and messages proliferated in windows and gardens, signs of creativity, resilience and the continued desire to communicate as face-to-face contact became impossible. When the first lockdown lifted, James Attlee recorded the voices of ...Show more
Unfollow - A journey from hatred to hope - Leaving the Westboro Baptist church by Megan Phelps-Roper
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: good
'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - LOUIS THEROUX 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption' - NICK HORNBY As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' It was an upbringing in many ways norm ...Show more
Vida: Vida Goldstein a Woman for Our Time by Jacqueline Kent
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Vida Jane Mary Goldstein, feminist and suffragist, was born at Portland, Victoria. Her father was an anti-suffragist, but Jacob Goldstein supported his daughters to be economically and intellectually independent. In the 1890s she became involved in various social welfare activities and attended Victoria ...Show more
Welcome to the club: The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ by DJ Paulette
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Hacienda resident and Manchester legend DJ Paulette celebrates the highs, lows and lessons of a 30-year career at the forefront of UK dance music as a ground-breaking Black female DJ. Featuring a foreword from Annie Mac In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and les ...Show more
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About - Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
In the early 2000's, as an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took many years for her to realize what she was actually trying to write about: the fracture this caused in her relationship with her mother. When her essay, "What My Mother and I ...Show more
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History Vol. 1: From Antiquity to World War II by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede Literar ...Show more
Women Who Dared: To Break All the Rules by Jeremy Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared. They had no time for what society said they could and couldn't do and would see the world bend before they did. In 1872 a mesmerising psychic named Victoria Woodhu ...Show more