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
The Tastemaker by Edward White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created some of the Jazz Age's most salacious stories. A ...Show more
The Tattoo Chronicles by Kat Von D.
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Kat Von D's followup to her "New York Times" bestseller "High Voltage Tattoo" offers an intimate look at a pivotal year in her personal and professional life through an illustrated diary that begins in spring 2008 and ends in summer 2009. When Kat does a tattoo, she writes about it and draws sketches in ...Show more
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
$22.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir
"Devastating and lyrical." --The New York Times "Suspenseful and affecting." --The New Yorker From the celebrated poet behind bone, a lyrical memoir--part prose, part verse--about coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the wider world, and redemption through self-discovery and the bonds o ...Show more
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Soci by Max Wolf Valerio
$27.99 AUD
Category: Trans, Intersex, Gender Diverse & Gender Non-Binary
Max Wolf Valerio crafts a raw, gripping, and poetic account of life before, during, and after injecting testosterone. Valerio’s detailed observations about a lesbian transitioning from female to a heterosexual male highlights the physical and emotional differences between women and men, and alternatel ...Show more
The Third Person by Emma Grove
$78.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
A boldly drawn, unforgettable memoir about trauma and the barriers to gender affirming health careIn the winter of 2004, a shy woman named Emma sits in Toby's office. She wants to share this wonderful new book she's reading, but Toby, her therapist, is concerned with other things. Emma is transgender, a ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
$26.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: Adult
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir
A tender and funny graphic memoir about identity, love and Willow from Buffy. Ellie always knew she was different. Contrary and creative, she wore black, obsessed over Willow in Buffy and somehow never really liked boys. As she grew, so did her fears and a deep sense of unbelonging. From her first commu ...Show more
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 Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clie ...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 Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys by Jenny Nordberg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is the only way to get ahead. Nordberg follows women such as Azita Rafaat, a parliament ...Show more