100 Nasty Women of History - Brilliant, Badass and Completely Fearless Women Everyone Should Know by Hannah Jewell
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
'Vital reading' STYLIST 'Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to read and witty, I didn't expect it to be the life changing, important book that I'm discovering it to be' PHILIPPA PERRY * * * * * * These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their times. When you learn about (the very few) women ...Show more
28: A memoir of football, addiction, art, masculinity and love by Brandon Jack
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
A brutally honest memoir that completely rethinks what it means to be a man. 'Like Andre Agassi's Open, this is a transformative book; it is going to change our way of seeing' Malcolm Knox'Brandon Jack is a force for good' Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, hosts of the Shameless podcastContinually t ...Show more
50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World by Hardie Grant; Michele Rosenthal (Illustrator); Will Larnach-Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles, 50 Queer Musicians Who Changed the World is a tribute to queer ground breakers who changed the face of music and popular culture. LGBTQ musicians have been pushing for change since the 1920s, with singers such as Bessie Smith crooning about same- ...Show more
A Novel Idea by Fiona McGregor
$29.95 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
A unique, intimate portrait of writer's working life,as experienced by one of Australia's most highly regarded novelists and artists. A Novel Idea is a memoir in photoessay form that follows Fiona McGregor's life as she writes her award-winning novel Indelible Ink. It is a tongue-in-cheek rumination on ...Show more
A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to the people who come into her view, and alternating between alienation and profound connection, she is hilarious, self-aware, sometimes acerbic, and painfully honest. And by the end o ...Show more
A Song for You - My Life with Whitney Houston by Robyn Crawford
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
The New York Times Bestseller After decades of silence, Robyn Crawford, close friend, collaborator, and confidante of Whitney Houston, shares her story.Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent the next t ...Show more
Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
An unflinching portrait of talent and addiction. In 2008 the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic.
After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ...scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. The media storm that surrounded Kathy Acker's books was unprecedented: her books were banned in several countri ...Show more
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller by Max Wallace
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
In this powerful new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller's journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability. R ...Show more
All My Friends Are Invisible by Jonathan Joly
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
*A mesmeric, harrowing and uplifting childhood memoir that will open up much-needed conversations about identity and mental health*It was an ordinary day in 2016. In Gatwick Airport, Jonathan and his wife Anna were having breakfast with their two little children while waiting for their flight to be call ...Show more
An Autobiography (Angela Davis) by Angela Y. Davis
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. It is reissued now with a new introduction by Davis, for ...Show more
Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music by Burt F. Bacharach
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated and legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year career he has worked with artists from Dionne Warwick to Dr Dre, Marlene Dietrich to Elvis Costello. In Anyone Who Had a Heart, Bacharach steps out from behind the music to take a ...Show more