Who Does that Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag by Craig Seligman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Australian-born Doris Fish In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way ...Show more
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is heard in our society, who is not - and why?'I knew this from the beginning, when I was inside the lorry, thinking about truth. If you are a good storyteller you will be trusted, get a life, and escape from hell. But what do you need to do to ...Show more
Who I Am by Melanie C
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was really like in The Spice Girls. For the first time ever, Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her amazing life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was ...Show more
Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy - the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. In Who Killed My Father, douard Louis explores key moments in his father's life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship. Told with the fire of a writer determined on soci ...Show more
Whole Notes by Ed Ayres
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Life Lessons Through Music How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves? One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening ...Show more
Whole Notes by Ed Ayres
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves? One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening or playing, we know ourselv ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. "She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be." --New ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE. The best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, an injection of grade-A intellectual adrenaline (Vulture), selected by the legendary editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. Diski expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be - New Yorker. Jenny Diski ...Show more
Why I Am a Hindu by Shashi Tharoor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Opening with a frank and touching reflection on his personal beliefs, he lays out Hinduism's origins and its key philosophical concepts -- including Vedanta, the Purusharthas, and Bhakti -- before focusing on texts such as the Bhagadvagita. The 'Great Souls', or key individuals of Hinduism, from Adi Sha ...Show more
Why I'm Not a Millionaire by Nancy Spain
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'She was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal in leading the way' Sandi Toksvig'Some people thought her merely bohemian, but others were grateful to have so engaging a role-model' INDEPENDENTThe superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascina ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival by Alice Vincent
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A stunning meditation on why women are drawn to the soil. Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that. To understand what encourages women to go out, work the soil, plant seeds and nurture them, even when so many other responsibi ...Show more