The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon: The Authorized Biography by Daniel Farson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: good
Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life. In this, the first-ever book to be written about him, Daniel Farson, friend and confidant to Bacon for over forty years, gives a highly personal, first-hand account of the man as he knew him. From ...Show more
The Gilded Razor: A Memoir by Sam Lansky
$39.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Sharply funny and compulsively readable, The Gilded Razor is a dazzling and harrowing memoir from debut author Sam Lansky.The Gilded Razor is the true story of a double life. By the age of 17, Sam Lansky was an all-star student with Ivy League aspirations in his final year at an elite New York City prep ...Show more
The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption by Patrick Flanery
$19.99 AUD
Category: LGBTIQ+ Parents
A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child. But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This curious question comes to haunt the journey, which Flanery r ...Show more
The Girl Prince Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax by Danell Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir
A new look at a revolutionary writer, a diverse imperial city, and a controversial trick on the Royal Navy.In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading as an Abyssinian prince, the young writer and her ...Show more
The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out is Good Business by Browne John
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
'I wish I had been brave enough to come out earlier in my tenure as CEO of BP. I regret it to this day. I know that if I had done so I would have made more of an impact for other gay men and women. With The Glass Closet, I hope to give some of them the courage to make an impact of their own.' Whether ...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 Boy: A Memoir by John Fiennes
$23.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The Good Boy is a first-hand account of a young man's struggle with religion, gay sex, marriage and middle-class morality.The writer first looks at the hero's pioneering ancestors and behavioural links across the generations of the extended Irish Catholic families into which he was born. A quiet 'middle ...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 Feeling in the World by Tim Sattler-Jones, Rod Sattler-Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Tim and Rod grew up a few suburbs from each other in Newcastle, NSW. They were gay but their worlds were not. Before they found each other they were alone and miserable, marooned in a sea of impossible expectations. Rod was shackled by a conservative Christian upbringing, while Tim felt unmanly and infe ...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 Groom Will Keep His Name by Ortile, Matt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
When Matt Ortile's family moved from Manila to Las Vegas, the locals couldn't pronounce his name. Bullied for his brown skin, accent, and femininity, he couldn't wait to move to New York, start over, and leave the past behind him - Filipino name included. In The Groom Will Keep His Name, Ortile traces h ...Show more