You're on an Airplane - A Self-Mythologizing Memoir by Parker Posey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Parker as your seat companion, perhaps? Parker's irreverent, hilarious, and enchanting memoir gives you the incredible opportunity. Full of personal stories, whimsical how-tos, recipes, and beautiful handmade collage ...Show more
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At only eighteen months old, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water, resulting in third-degree burns over 35 percent of her body. She miraculously survived, but burned and scarred, the impact would stay with her and become an obstacle she was determined to ...Show more
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. But she survived. Burned and scarred, ...Show more
You've Got To Be Kidding: a shedload of wine & a farm full of goats by Todd Alexander
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The steep-climb highs and free-fall lows of my rollercoaster rural life They say it takes 10,000 hours to master a new skill. Well, seven years (60,000 hours) since former city boys Todd and Jeff moved to the country they should have nailed this whole farming gig, right? Yes, they make lovely wine and ...Show more
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Gr ...Show more
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights, as seen in Netflix's In Her Hands documentary.'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am Malala'Incredible' Stylist'In this earnest and fiery memoir ...Show more
Zarifa - A Woman's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights.I am one of the lucky ones.I got out of Afghanistan alive when the Taliban retook the country. Millions of others did not - they are now living under one of the world's most repressive regimes, with any ...Show more
Zelensky The Frontline President by Andrew L. Urban, Chris Mcleod
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The message from the free world to Russian President Putin has always been clear: Leave Ukraine alone... get out! What Russia thought would be a three-day hit-and-run mission to oust the Ukraine government of Volodymyr Zelensky was an abject failure. The message from the free world to Russian President ...Show more
smile: story of a face by Sarah Ruhl
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An extraordinary memoir about what it means to be a writer, a woman and a mother with Bell's Palsy by award-winning playwright The extraordinary story of one woman's ten-year medical and metaphysical odyssey that brought her physical, creative, emotional, and spiritual healing, by a MacArthur genius and ...Show more
will by Will Self
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Unflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt, and propelled by an exceptional energy, Will is the long-awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. A portrait of the artist as a young addict, Will is one of the most eloquent and u ...Show more
Dear Senthuran: A black spirit memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self. In letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family - both biological and chosen - and to fellow storytellers, Akwaeke describes the shape of a life lived in overlapping realiti ...Show more
Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more