Self-Portrait by Celia Paul
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer. Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade Sch ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Th ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 2 - No Priest But Love by Anne Lister; Helena Whitbread (Editor)
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helen ...Show more
Cruel to Be Kind - The Life and Music of Nick Lowe by Will Birch
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Cruel to Be Kind is the definitive account of Nick Lowe's uncompromising life as a songwriter and entertainer, from his days at Stiff Records, to becoming the driving force behind Rockpile, to the 1979 smash hit 'Cruel To Be Kind'. Nick's original compositions have been recorded by the best in the busin ...Show more
Mr. Know-It-All by John Waters
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
No one knows more about everything--especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling--than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos,Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world's great ...Show more
Unspeakable - The Autobiography by John Bercow
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Unspeakable is John Bercow's characteristically forthright and incisive account of his unique vantagepoint into British politics. Containing verdicts on many of the leading figures of this era, from Tony Blair to David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson, Bercow explores and explains the ways in whi ...Show more
Beneath the Fig Leaves by Olympia Panagiotopoulos
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1955, in a village in Greece that was marred by war and poverty, Giannoula and Fotios Panagiotopoulos dreamed of providing a better life for their children. Australia, it was rumoured, was a land of opportunity where hard work brought reward. Leaving behind family and friends, they set off to make a ...Show more
Nobody Will Tell You This but Me: A True (as told to me) Story by Bess Kalb
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"When I stop crying, I'm calling my mother immediately and making her read it." --Jodi Picoult "Comic lines as good as in any movie, and pathos as deep as in any novel" --Mike Birbiglia Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever ...Show more
Wine Girl by Victoria James
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An affecting memoir from a young sommelier, struggling to make her way into the glamorous but notoriously toxic restaurant world. At just twenty-one, Victoria James became America's youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Even as Victoria was selling bottles worth hundreds and thousands of ...Show more
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD by Bill Minutaglio & Steven L Davis
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall Street Journal On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius IQ studies a twelve-foot high fence topped with barbed wire. A few months earlier, Dr. Timothy Leary, th ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again."-David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon One of the New York Times' "20 most antici ...Show more
Beethoven: The Man Revealed by John Suchet
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
You know the music... but do you know the man? Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the world's best loved and most influential composers. His life - its dramas, conflicts, loves and losses - is played out in his music. Now John Suchet shows us the man behind the music in this compelling biography of a musica ...Show more