Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thoug ...Show more
Writing Wild - Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World by Kathryn Aalto
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"An exciting, expert, and invaluable group portrait of seminal women writers enriching a genre crucial to our future." --Booklist In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women, both historical and current, whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural wor ...Show more
Writing in the Sand by Matt Garrick
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Words are easy, words are cheap / Much cheaper than our priceless land / But promises can disappear / Just like writing in the sand -- From Yothu Yindi's 1992 ARIA Song of the Year, 'Treaty' Sometimes a musical revolution can explode from the most unlikely of places. Long before they were ARIA Hall of F ...Show more
Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Australian-with-some-Turkish-and-Moroccan-background Muslim woman. With her hijab quickly christened a "tea cosy" there could not be a more unlikely place on earth ...Show more
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'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
Year of the Tiger - An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, amb ...Show more
Yearbook - Seth Rogen by Seth Rogen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people's searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks ...Show more
Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Diaries
Finally, Helen Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of her everyday life provide an intimate insight into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers. Ye ...Show more
Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja by Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This stunning book is a biography and a generous sharing of Yorna's Culture and traditional beliefs. Explore the meaning of Country, Lalai ('Creation'), Wandjina, Woongudd (the 'Snake'), in the author's Country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Full of extraordinary images of the landscape, ...Show more
You Are Always with Me: Letters to Mama by Frida Kahlo by Frida Kahlo; Héctor Jaimes (Translator)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of Mexico's greatest painters: her extraordinary personal style, her tragic story, her relationship with Diego Rivera (the more famous painter in their day) alongside her passionate paintings have made her a cult figure since she died over sixty years ago. But beyond the ...Show more
You, Bleeding Childhood by Michele Mari; Brian Robert Moore (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and hilarious terrors of growing up geeky arrives in English at last. Long before the latest vogue for auto fiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Rais ...Show more
You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency call-out for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career. Between the obligatory stories of objects lodged in body cavities to grown me ...Show more