A Dangerous Liaison : A biography of Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir by Carole Seymour-Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate and sometimes painful story of how two brilliant free-thinkers - and rivals - came to share a relationship that was to last over fifty years. Moving from the corridors of the Sorbonne and the chestnut groves in the Limousin, to the cafes of Paris' Left B ...Show more
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman by Alice Kessler-Harris
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary M ...Show more
A Dutiful Boy: A memoir of a gay Muslim's journey to acceptance by Mohsin Zaidi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
A Guardian Best Book of the YearA GQ Best Book of the YearA New Statesman Best Book of the YearGrowing up in a devout shia Muslim household, it felt impossible for Mohsin to be gay. Unable to be open with his family, and with difficult conditions at school, he felt his opportunities closing around him. ...Show more
A Fuhrer for a Father : The Domestic Face of Colonialism by Jim Davidson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
'I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.' In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time in Pa ...Show more
A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy: Intended Fathers by Michael Menichiello
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Surrogacy's been coldly and unjustifiably called baby buying and baby selling. But those insensitive terms do not tell the inspiring tale of a couple fiercely wanting to become parents. "A Gay Couple's Experience with Surrogacy: Intended Fathers" is the moving true story of a gay couple's decision to ha ...Show more
A Home For All Seasons by Gavin Plumley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Both a sweeping history and an intimate account of making a home, told through the prism of an English country house.
A Human Eye by Adrienne Rich
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In "A Human Eye", one of America's most distinguished poets explores the complex relationship between art and social justice. Over more than three decades, Rich's essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage, and range of concerns. She examines a diverse selection of writings and their place in ...Show more
A Journey of Pride - From Mauritius to Melbourne by Jacques Coosh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
When his older brother asks him if he is gay, Jacques is first stunned by the question. Soon after he's come out, Jacques leaves behind the idyllic island of Mauritius, and embarks on a journey of self-discovery.This is a poignant story of resilience and hope. Despite the challenges, Jacques finds fulfi ...Show more
A LITTLE BIT WICKED by CHENOWETH KRISTIN
$42.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"Life's too short. I'm not."You might know her as a Tony Award-winning Broadway star, who originated the role of Galinda the Good Witch in the smash musical "Wicked" and won a Tony for 1999's "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." Or you may recognize her from her starring roles on TV -- "The West Wing," " ...Show more
A Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays
$24.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
A parent's deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is. When Carolyn Hays's child made clear to the family that they were all wrong, he was not a boy, but, in fact, a girl, the Hays shifted pronouns, adopted a nickname and encouraged her to dress as she felt comforta ...Show more
A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's ...Show more
A Light That Never Goes Out - The Enduring Saga of the Smiths by Tony Fletcher
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
They were, their fans believe, the best band in the world. Critics and sales figures told a similar story: six albums between 1984 and 1988 made number one or number two in the UK charts. Twenty-five years after their break-up, the band remain as adored and discussed as ever. To this day, there is a col ...Show more