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
Woolgathering by Patti Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self - and its 'clear, unspeakable joy' - with memories both real and envisioned from her ...Show more
Words Without Music - A Memoir by Philip Glass
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Biography lovers will be inspired by the story of a precocious Baltimore boy, the son of a music-shop owner, who entered college at age fifteen, before traveling to Paris to study under the legendary Nadia Boulanger; Glass devotees will be fascinated by the stories behind Einstein on the Beach and Satya ...Show more
Workin' It!: Rupaul's Guide to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Style by RuPaul; Merle Ginsberg
$39.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
Workin' It!, the new book from world-renowned recording artist, television host, and drag queen RuPaul, provides helpful and provocative tips on fashion, beauty, style, and confidence for girls and boys, both straight and gay--and everyone in between! No one knows more about life, self-expression, and s ...Show more
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very f ...Show more
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This book brings together Alan Bennett's diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of his many television plays, notably An Englishman Abroad and A Pr ...Show more
Writing with Caca by Luis Felipe Fabre; J. D. Pluecker (Translator)
$44.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Luis Felipe Fabre's WRITING WITH CACA essays a lyric investigation of the Mexican modernist writer Salvador Novo. The book centers around an investigation and reclaiming of Los Anales, the original, derogatory nickname given to Novo and his compadres in the modernist group Los Contemporáneos. Through No ...Show more
XOXY - A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist) by Kimberly M. Zieselman
$33.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an international human rights defender and globally-recognised activist. Charting her intersex discovery and her journey to self-acceptance, this book movingly portrays ...Show more
Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Introduction by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters- a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he jo ...Show more
Yarrowee: A Radical Life by Brian Pola
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Published in 2007, ‘Yarrowee: A Radical Life’ is an autographical novel set in present day Ballarat. ‘Yarrowee’ is a no-holds-barred attack on the powers-that-be. It is a story of political intrigue. It is also the story of my homosexual life. ‘Yarrowee’ invites you, the reader into a rarefied, free-wh ...Show more