Sitting Pretty - The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, ...Show more
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance (HB) by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed. David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective glass ...Show more
Speaking Up by Gillian Triggs
$15.00 AUD
$45.00 (66% off)
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood relentless political pressure and media scrutiny as she defended the defenceless for five tumultuous years. How did this aspiring ballet dancer, dignified dau ...Show more
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler, author of Parable of the Sower and Kindred.Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in po ...Show more
Still Here - The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch by Alexandra Jacobs
$42.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
The ebullient, troubled life of a Broadway legend who became a heroine to a younger generation Still Here is the first full telling of Elaine Stritch's life. Rollicking but intimate, it tracks one of Broadway's great personalities from her upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to her fatefu ...Show more
Tapestry: Five Generations of Italian Australians by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
$21.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
"I was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia; but the Maria that was to be, had already come into existence in the villages of the Campania region of Italy. Their names were as familiar to me as the name of my own street. I grew up as part of a tapestry, rich with the colours of many realities, woven w ...Show more
The Banks by Roxane Gay; Ming Doyle (Artist)
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
For fifty years the women of the Banks family have been the most successful thieves in Chicago by following one simple rule: never get greedy. But when the youngest Banks stumbles upon the heist of a lifetime, the potential windfall may be enough to bring three generations of thieves together for one in ...Show more
The Beautiful Ones - Prince by Prince
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time--featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death. Prince was a musical genius, one of t ...Show more
The Best Party of Our Lives: Stories of Gay Weddings and True Love to Inspire Us All by Sarah Galvin
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
This moving collection of true stories about gay weddings shows how LGBT couples have overcome cultural and personal obstacles to their unions, made wedding traditions their own, and what everyone can learn from them. Told in a series of essays that mimics the course of a traditional wedding, from engag ...Show more
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
The Book of Pride captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, o ...Show more
The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando by William J. Mann
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly Based on new and revelatory material from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the tw ...Show more
The Dangerous Bride, the A Memoir of Love, Gods and Geography by Lee Kofman
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
What do you do when your husband claims to be madly in love with you, but doesn't desire you sexually? When your therapist is more interested in opening an online sex-toy shop with your husband than in saving your marriage? Do you try yet another counsellor, get divorced or settle for a sexless marriage ...Show more