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
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my car ...Show more
The Mother of Black Hollywood - A Memoir by Jenifer Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
National Book Club Conference 'Book of the Year' Award WinnerFrom her more than three hundred appearances for film and television, stage and cabaret, performing comedy or drama, as an unforgettable lead or a scene stealing supporting character, Jenifer Lewis has established herself as one of the most re ...Show more
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (updated edition) by David Marr
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
David Marr's explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.In March this year, the nation's most powerful Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was jailed for child sexual assault. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man, his career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power ...Show more
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
A thoroughly original and intimate memoir by the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking.
The Private Life of the Diary: From Pepys to Tweets - A History of the Diary as an Art Form by Sally Bayley
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution – and the potential twenty first century death of – the diary, mourning what it means to lose the art of writing simply for oneself. Diaries hold all manner of things: they allow us a moment to be completely personal, to self-aggrand ...Show more
The Promised Party - Kahlo, Basquiat and Me by Jennifer Clement
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Growing up in '60s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo's house. It was an unorthodox and bohemian childhood, living alongside artists, communists, revolutionaries and poets, and one that allowed an awakening of creative freedom and curiosity about the world. Leaving behind the ...Show more
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
In his previous books, Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain and mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders. Recently, however, he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice, and in light ...Show more
The Secret Life - Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'. 'Ghosting' introduces us to the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite, with unforgettable consequences. 'The Inv ...Show more