The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This is your happy hour with Amy Schumer... It's Bossypants meets Trainwreck meets your long weekend." --TheSkimm "Amy's got your back. She's in your corner. She's an honesty bomb. And she's coming for you." --Actress Tilda Swinton and Trainwreck co-star ...Show more
The Gloves Are Off by Maggie Kirkpatrick
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
'I can actually tell my story without benefit of playwright or hidden beneath the cloak of a character.' Maggie Kirkpatrick, famous for her role as The Freak in Prisoner, presents a no-holds-barred account of her life both on and off screen. In The Gloves Are Off, Maggie takes us on her journey from hum ...Show more
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively toward ...Show more
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - An Oral History by Nick Offerman; Megan Mullally
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman reveal the full story behind their epic romance--presented in a series of intimate conversations between the couple.The year: 2000. The setting: Los Angeles. A gorgeous virtuoso of an actress agreed to star in a random play, and a basement-dwelling scenic carpenter said ...Show more
The HIV Book Project by Phillip Shipton (Editor, Interviewer, Concept by); Daniel Cordner (Designed by); Roy Wilkins (Photographer); Garry Wotherspoon (Foreword by); Adrian Ogier (Associate Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Phil Shipton and Roy Wilkins came together through The Ankali Project. A Sydney based project that provides emotional and social support to people living with HIV. It is from here that The HIV Book Project was born. Our vision is to produce an art and cultural project that reveals a social history docum ...Show more
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and ObserverAngela Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and beguiling writers of the last century. Her work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitali ...Show more
The Joyce Girl by Annabel Abbs
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Paris, 1928. Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music and literature from artists such as Ford Madox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald. Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of controversial genius James Joyce, is making her name as a dancer. But when Lucia falls passionately in lov ...Show more
The Last Action Heroes by Nick de Semlyen
$36.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and 90s Hollywood and the beloved films - from Die Hard to The Terminator - that made them stars. This wildly entertaining account of the golden age of the action movie charts Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger's carnage-packed j ...Show more
The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren - The Biography by Paul Gorman
$36.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'This masterful and painstaking biography opens its doorway to an era of fluorescent disenchantment and outlandish possibility' Alan Moore Malcolm McLaren was one of the most culturally significant but misunderstood figures of the modern era. Ten years after his life was cruelly cut short by cancer, The ...Show more
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Series: Biography and Autobiography Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZECHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATORTHE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Explosively enjoyable, bursting with life and art ... A centr ...Show more
The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968 by William Feaver
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR'A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone from Princess Margaret to the Krays, a snapshot ...Show more
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most ...Show more