Lovell Our Dogge - The Life of Viscount Lovell, Closest Friend of Richard III and Failed Regicide by Michèle Schindler
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In July 1484 Tudor agent William Collingbourne tacked up a lampoon to the walls of St Paul's Cathedral: 'The Catte, the Ratte and Lovell our dogge rulyth all Englande under a hogge.'That cat was Sir William Catesby, one of Richard III's principal councillors and Chancellor of the Exchequer, executed aft ...Show more
The Novotny Papers - 'a Bit Vulture, a Bit Eagle' by Lilian Pizzichini
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
'I have always been a bird. A bit vulture, a bit eagle. I have looked the sun in its face. Born several times - dead several times so that I could be reborn from my ashes.' It is almost impossible to summarize the extraordinary life of Mariella Novotny in a few paragraphs. In 1961 she was an underage p ...Show more
Notes on Womanhood by Sarah Jane Barnett
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldn’t be “less of a woman” prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result. Her ...Show more
Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Mophead
In her bestselling Mophead, poet laureate and fast talking PI Selina Tusitala Marsh recounted her experience growing up Pasifika in Aotearoa and realising how her (and your) difference can make a difference. In Mophead Tu, Selina is crowned Commonwealth Poet and invited to perform for the Queen in Westm ...Show more
Ideals Are Like Stars - Dame Yvette Williams Story by Angela Walker
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal, a feat not repeated for forty years. Ideals Are Like Stars is the remarkable true story of Yvette Williams, a trailblazing young athlete who defied the odds to win gold in the long jump at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. Ignoring the pressure to a ...Show more
Jane Austen Files, The: A Complete Anthology of Letters & Family Recollections by Helen Amy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A fascinating insight into the life of Jane in the words of the people who knew her Jane Austen is one of England's greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read and enjoyed nearly two hundred years after her death. Memories of Jane were increasingly recorded as her reputation an ...Show more
Signs of a Struggle by Guy James Whitworth
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Signs of a Struggle illustrates the creative journey, from working-class North East England to the current Queer-art scene of Sydney, through the eyes of award-winning artist Guy James whitworth. Uniquely using the fierce and fabulous LGBTIQ community of Sydney as a visuyal metaphor, Whitworth contempl ...Show more
Sunlight - The Shadowed Days Trilogy by Garry Kinnane
$44.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
From wartime Melbourne to the Greek islands to Swinging London and Oxford, Garry Kinnane's trilogy of memoirs is now published in a single volume. Shadowed DaysShadowed Days glows with humanity, with an understanding and wisdom born of privation and endurance. - Tom Petsinis Fare Thee Well, Hoddle Gri ...Show more
Pink Book, The by Henry Von Doussa
$74.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The Pink Book is a memoir about sexuality, gender, and grief and loss through the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and about the influence of life’s juxtaposing forces: beauty and suffering, freedom and constraint. The Pink Book contains Henry von Doussa’s art, writing, and precious objects (including old family let ...Show more
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