Beyond Priscilla: One gay man, one gay truck, one big idea... by Daniel Witthaus
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
266 days driving around rural, regional and urban Australia challenging homophobia. The Beyond 'That's So Gay' National Tour. In a 38 week road trip around Australia, Daniel Witthaus discovered what contemporary life is really like for LGBT people - life beyond the stereotypes, life 'beyond Priscilla'. ...Show more
Enough of Your Nonsense - Stories about Queerdom and Creativity by Guy James Whitworth (Illustrator)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Artwork and stories about queerness, the Sydney art scene, and England in the 80s and 90s
Ravenscar House: A Biography by Sally Blundell
$65.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Many exciting new buildings have arisen from the rubble of post-earthquake Christchurch but none, perhaps, is as remarkable as Ravenscar House in the heart of the city's heritage precinct. 'Ravenscar House: A biography' explores the story of this unique, purpose-built house museum as the realisation of ...Show more
James Courage Diaries by Chris Brickell
$49.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand author James Courage was born in Christchurch in 1903, and he became aware of his homosexuality during his adolescent years. He moved to London in 1927 and began writing novels, plays, poems and short stories. He was much more sexually open than most of his homosexual writer contemporaries F ...Show more
Our Home in Myanmar: Four years in Yangon by Jessica Mudditt
$29.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Myanmar - shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century.After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 - just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a h ...Show more
Live Like Sean: Important Life Lessons from My Special Needs Son by TJ Nelligan & Theresa Foy DiGeronino
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
When my son Sean was born with special needs, his mother and I were told he would never be normal and we mourned for the life we had imagined for him. We thought we would have to be his teacher and protector, more so than the typical child. However, we quickly learned that lessons can come from the mo ...Show more
The Alarmist - Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change by Dave Lowe
$43.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Alarmist (pre-2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic. Alarmist (post-2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere. His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it’s critical. In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist ...Show more
and Remote Poor Furthest People First: M2H's Mission to Provide Mobile Surgical Care to Africa's Sick by Dr. Glenn Geelhoed
$51.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
When the world's remotest populations need medical care and training, Mission to Heal takes the operating rooms to them-no matter how far away they are. Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed is a medical doctor, humanitarian, and the founder of Mission to Heal (M2H), an organization through which he has conducted medi ...Show more
Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
$38.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
‘I’d wanted to remember why it was we swam in the first place – to remember the pleasure of immersing in an element other than air.’ Ingrid Horrocks had few aspirations to swimming mastery, but she had always loved being in the water. She set out on a solo swimming journey, then abandoned it for a diffe ...Show more
We Will Not Cease by Archibald Baxter
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
To oppose the military machine means to accept the possibility that one may be destroyed by it. - Archibald BaxterWe Will Not Cease is the unflinching account of New Zealander Archibald Baxter's brutal treatment as a conscientious objector during World War I.In 1915, when Baxter was 33, he was arrested, ...Show more
All Is Not Lost: How I Friended Failure on the Island and Found a Way Home by Shannon Kenny Carbonell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
All Is Not LOST is the story of what happened when one woman set aside a lifelong dream in favor of her kids, only to find herself battling her own ego and unfulfilled ambition. Shannon Kenny Carbonell—wife of actor Nestor Carbonell of LOST, Bates Motel, and The Morning Show fame—knew she was making the ...Show more