Are You Anybody? A Memoir by Jeffrey Tambor
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
You know him from his breakout role as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, his outrageous turn as George and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, and his Emmy Award-winning performance as Maura Pfefferman on Transparent. A Broadway star, a television legend, an accomplished screen actor whose singu ...Show more
Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, ROUGH TRADE, PITCHFORK AND UNCUT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE. A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Musician and arti ...Show more
Art of Asking - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer
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Category: General Biography / Memoir
NOW FEATURING POSTSCRIPT FROM MARIA POPOVA 'When we really see each other, we want to help each other' - Amanda Palmer Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently using your eyes to ask people for money. Or touring Europe in a punk cabaret band, a ...Show more
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney by Michael Bird
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Artists' Letters is a treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing the reader with a unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Arranged thematically, it includes writings and musings on love, work, daily life, money, travel and the creative ...Show more
Ava Gardner : A Life in Movies by Anthony Kendra; Uzarowski Bean
$42.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Ava: A Life in Movies is a gorgeous illustrated tribute to a legendary life. Authors Kendra Bean and Anthony Uzarowski take a closer look at the Academy Award-nominated actress's famous screen roles while shedding new light on the creation and maintenance of her glamorous image, her marriages, and her f ...Show more
Bad Reputation by Penny Arcade
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
A reform-school runaway at thirteen, a performer in the legendary New York City Playhouse of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy Warhol's Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade (born Susanna Ventura) emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an originator of ...Show more
Becoming Beauvoir - A Life by Kate Kirkpatrick
$26.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one", Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about ...Show more
Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend by Rose Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her spectacular acts of defiance. Bee Miles was famous for appearing in public in towns and cities across Australia, breaking their rules, and living, she said 'recklessly'. But she was no ordinary w ...Show more
Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Madeline Dyer (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary stories From a wheelchair user racing to save her kidnapped girlfriend and a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, to a slayer whose virgin blood keeps attracting monsters, the stories of this anthol ...Show more
Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will by Simon Callow
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Simon Callow plunges headlong into Wagner's world to discover what it was like to be Wagner, and to be around one of music's most influential figures. A hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagner's music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. They have never bee ...Show more
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Izzard is one of the funniest people alive, a talented actor, a sharp cross-dresser, an experienced marathon runner, and a great writer. You will have to read this if only to find out what a jazz chicken is."--The Philadelphia Inquirer With his brand of keenly inte ...Show more
Berlin - Imagine a City by Rory MacLean
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams real ...Show more