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
Workin' It!: Rupaul's Guide to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Style by RuPaul; Merle Ginsberg
$39.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
Workin' It!, the new book from world-renowned recording artist, television host, and drag queen RuPaul, provides helpful and provocative tips on fashion, beauty, style, and confidence for girls and boys, both straight and gay--and everyone in between! No one knows more about life, self-expression, and s ...Show more
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very f ...Show more
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This book brings together Alan Bennett's diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of his many television plays, notably An Englishman Abroad and A Pr ...Show more
Writing with Caca by Luis Felipe Fabre; J. D. Pluecker (Translator)
$44.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Luis Felipe Fabre's WRITING WITH CACA essays a lyric investigation of the Mexican modernist writer Salvador Novo. The book centers around an investigation and reclaiming of Los Anales, the original, derogatory nickname given to Novo and his compadres in the modernist group Los Contemporáneos. Through No ...Show more
XOXY - A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist) by Kimberly M. Zieselman
$33.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an international human rights defender and globally-recognised activist. Charting her intersex discovery and her journey to self-acceptance, this book movingly portrays ...Show more
Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Introduction by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters- a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he jo ...Show more
Yarrowee: A Radical Life by Brian Pola
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Published in 2007, ‘Yarrowee: A Radical Life’ is an autographical novel set in present day Ballarat. ‘Yarrowee’ is a no-holds-barred attack on the powers-that-be. It is a story of political intrigue. It is also the story of my homosexual life. ‘Yarrowee’ invites you, the reader into a rarefied, free-wh ...Show more
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
$29.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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