Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History Vol. 1: From Antiquity to World War II by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede Literar ...Show more
Women Who Dared: To Break All the Rules by Jeremy Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared. They had no time for what society said they could and couldn't do and would see the world bend before they did. In 1872 a mesmerising psychic named Victoria Woodhu ...Show more
Words Without Music - A Memoir by Philip Glass
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Biography lovers will be inspired by the story of a precocious Baltimore boy, the son of a music-shop owner, who entered college at age fifteen, before traveling to Paris to study under the legendary Nadia Boulanger; Glass devotees will be fascinated by the stories behind Einstein on the Beach and Satya ...Show more
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
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Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself ...Show more
Year of the Monkey: The New York Times bestseller by Patti Smith
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Category: General Biography / Memoir
'Magical' GUARDIAN'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE'Extraordinary ... A tense, teasing mix of reality and dream' Sunday Times'A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith's third memoir' BBC'Her willingness ...Show more
Young Bloomsbury the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression by Nino Strachey
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Category: General Biography / Memoir
'Entirely original and thrilling . . . this is Gatsby made real' JULIET NICOLSON'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYESIn the 1920s a new generation stepped forward to invigorate the Bloomsbury Group - creative young people who tantalised the original 'Bloomsberries' with ...Show more
You're on an Airplane - A Self-Mythologizing Memoir by Parker Posey
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Parker as your seat companion, perhaps? Parker's irreverent, hilarious, and enchanting memoir gives you the incredible opportunity. Full of personal stories, whimsical how-tos, recipes, and beautiful handmade collage ...Show more