The Times Lives Less Ordinary by Nigel Farndale (Editor); Times Books (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 85 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. Be they dons, pop stars, vicars, MPs, rugby players or aristocrats, each has marched to the beat of their own drum and led a life far from ordina ...Show more
The Twat Files: A hilarious sort-of memoir of mistakes, mishaps and mess-ups by Dawn French
$36.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last sixty years. Nincompoop. Nitwit. Lunatic. Dork. All lovely . . . but . . . nah . . . I prefer Twat. It's neat and it's accurate somehow. Because, yes, I am a Twat . . . sometimes. Aren't we all? THE TWAT ...Show more
The Unknown Kerouac - Rare, Unpublished, and Newly Translated Writings by Jack Kerouac; Todd Tietchen (Editor); Jean-Christophe Cloutier (Translator)
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Series: The\Library of America Ser.
In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as never before the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success--a journey with deep r ...Show more
The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman by Lucy Webster
$37.99 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
A powerful, eye-opening insight into navigating the world as a disabled young woman Women's lives are shaped by sexism and expectations. Disabled people's lives are shaped by ableism and a complete lack of expectations. But what happens when you're subjected to both sets of rules?This powerful, honest, ...Show more
These Things Happen by Greg Fleet
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
For 30 years Greg Fleet has been one of Australia's most widely known and best loved comedians. For the same period, he's had a drug habit that has delivered him comedy and tragedy in equal parts. These Things Happen is Fleet's hilarious, heartbreaking account of the life-or-death battle for his soul. O ...Show more
They Called Me Queer by Kim Windvogel (Compiled by); Kelly-Eve Koopman (Compiled by)
$37.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermod by Stephen Fried
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's s ...Show more
This Young Monster by Charlie Fox
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the ...Show more
Timeless on the Silk Road - An Odyssey from London to Hanoi by Heather Ellis
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Timeless On The Silk Road is a travel memoir based on one woman's solo motorcycle odyssey along the fabled Silk Roads of antiquity. Faced with her mortality, this is a profoundly confronting tale of life and death. An evocative journey of courage, hardship and immense beauty of landscape and culture, He ...Show more
Tina Turner: My Love Story. The Autobiography by Tina Turner
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
_______________________ 'Astonishing, soul-baring - the must-read memoir by rock's greatest survivor' DAILY MAIL ***The full, dramatic story of one of the most remarkable women in music history, celebrating Tina Turner's 60th year in the industry*** 'Unbearably poignant' THE TIMES, Book of the Week ____ ...Show more
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, And Madness At The Dawn Of Hollywood by MANN, WILLIAM J.
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
At the launch party for her memoir in 2014, the musician Viv Albertine received news that her mother was dying, and spent a few final hours with the woman who was, in a sense, the love of her life. In the turbulent weeks after the funeral, Viv made a series of discoveries that revealed the role of famil ...Show more