I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and then she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Hit with this devastating barrage, Tig took her grief onstage. Days aft ...Show more
I'm Still Here - Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'This book is my story about growing up in a Black girl's body.' From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian and female that exposes how white America's love affair with 'divers ...Show more
Impervious - Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant by Janet Hardy
$33.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Others have turned to Janet W. Hardy's 'The Ethical Slut', 'The New Topping Book' and 'The New Bottoming Book' - for advice on the most challenging questions of sex, polyamory, kink, and self-identity. But Janet had to make it up as she went. How did she do it? Well, as you might expect from the co-aut ...Show more
In My Skin: A Memoir by Kate Holden
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
An Australian memoir published to critical acclaim worldwide, In My Skin is the true story of Kate Holden's life as sex worker and a heroin addict. Kate was a nice middle-class girl: a dreamy bookworm, a classics scholar and an innocent. In this memoir she chronicles in frank and beautifully crafted pro ...Show more
Irrepressible - The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameless, seductive and brilliant, ...Show more
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams by Darwin Porter
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
God had a talent for creating exceptional women--Helen of Troy and Cleopatra come to mind. So does Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who lives again in this "warts-and-all" portrait. It's being released on the 20th anniversary of the tragic death, in 1994, of the icon who changed America's beliefs abo ...Show more
Judi: Behind the Scenes by Judi Dench
$45.00 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
An illustrated memoir of one of Britain's greatest and best-loved actors. 'National treasure? I hate that. Too dusty, too in a cupboard, too behind glass, too staid ... What I love is being part of a company. On stage I am not trying to be myself, I'm trying to be someone else, the more unlike me the b ...Show more
Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli - Too Many Damn Rainbows by Darwin Porter; Danforth Prince
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
For millions of fans, Judy Garland will forever remain a relentlessly cheerful adolescent (Dorothy) skipping along a yellow brick road toward the other side of the rainbow. Liza followed her down that hallucinogenic path, searching for the childhood, the security, and the love that eluded her. Ferocious ...Show more
Judy & Liza & Robert & Freddie & David & Sue & Me...: A Memoir by Stevie Phillips
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
No star burned more ferociously than Judy Garland. And nobody witnessed Garland's fierce talent at closer range than Stevie Phillips. During the "Mad Men "era, Stevie Philips was a young woman muscling her way into the manscape of Manhattan's glittering office towers. After a stint as a secretary, she b ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Ken Done: a Life Coloured In by Ken Done
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
An impressionistic and exuberant memoir by Australia's best-loved artist. Ken Done has an extraordinary place in the hearts of Australians - we've all worn or decorated our homes with his artwork. His vivid, optimistic images are part of our collective consciousness and have helped define us to the wor ...Show more
Lana Turner : Hearts & Diamonds Take All by Danforth Darwin; Prince Porter
$55.00 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Series: Blood Moon's Babylon Ser.
After Betty Grable, but before there was Marilyn, America's penchant for popcorn blondes focused on LANA, the "ultimate movie star." She had it all: Looks to die for, money to burn, the romantic adulation of the world, and lovers who included the world's most desirable men. In her 1937 film, They Won't ...Show more