The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 2 - No Priest But Love by Anne Lister; Helena Whitbread (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helen ...Show more
The Secret Gospel of Mark - A Poet's Memoir by Spencer Reece
$39.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
The Secret Gospel of Mark is a powerful dynamo of a story that delicately weaves the author's experiences with an appreciation for seven great literary touchstones: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, James Merrill, Mark Strand, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Reece's writing app ...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
The Secrets of My Life by Caitlyn Jenner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
In this remarkable memoir - written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger during her pivotal first years of rebirth - Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future. With poignancy and humour, Caitlyn writes about her confusion growing up, the temporary triumph of the Oly ...Show more
The Seductive Sapphic Exploits of Mercedes de Acosta - Hollywood's Greatest Lover by Darwin Porter; Danforth Prince
$49.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir | Series: Blood Moon's Magnolia House Ser.
A self-defined "seductress of beautiful women" and the by-product of an immense fortune, lesbian activist Mercedes de Acosta (born in 1892) was descended from Spain's Dukes of Alba and a beneficiary of the best education and best social skills that her parents' Gilded Age fortune could buy. From her per ...Show more
The Shadow of Ally by Alena Robins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
Some lives are filled with pain, doubt and confusion from the very beginning. Such is the story of The Shadow of Ally which could be called “the liberation of Ally”. Walk side by side with this wonder filled account of a life of destruction. That started in the 70’s and shows the amazing strength of the ...Show more
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
$23.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her ...Show more
The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry
$26.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
'We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and banded / Which may please them'. ('The Duchess of Malfi', John Webster). For Ned, 1980 seems a blissful year. Handsome, charming, popular and talented, his life is progressing smoothly, effortlessly, happily. And when he meets the lovely Portia Fendeman ...Show more
The Story of Fester Cat by Paul Magrs
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
"I always knew that the rest of my story is gonna be a good one. I don't know how I knew that, but I always did. Ungow! I am Fester the cat. Welcome to my book, everyone!" From when he first ambled into Paul Magrs's yard--skinny, covered in flea bites, and missing all but one and a half teeth--Fester kn ...Show more
The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir by Toni Bentley
$32.95 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Few women do it and even fewer will admit to it. But in Toni Bentley's daring and intimate memoir, The Surrender, she pulls the sheets back on an erotic experience that's been forbidden since the Bible and celebrates "the joy that lies on the other side of convention, where risk is real and rapture resi ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
$34.95 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir
Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, "Strange ...Show more