The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
Bossypants by Tina Fey (Read by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both ...Show more
Michael Buble: The Biography by Juliet Peel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Michael Buble is an international singing sensation. Since his debut in 2003, he has sold 18 million albums, won numerous awards (including a Grammy), reached the top 10 in the UK charts with his first album, 'Michael Buble', and the top 50 of the Billboard 200 album charts for the same CD. His second a ...Show more
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
$22.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Gloria Steinem--writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader--tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change.ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ...Show more
Paul Kelly: the Man, the Music & the Life in Between by Stuart Coupe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
Renowned music journalist Stuart Coupe examines the life of an Australian music icon - honest, revealing and a must-read for Paul Kelly fans and music lovers alike. He's been called Australia's Bob Dylan and likened to Springsteen and Neil Young, but Paul Kelly stands alone as a chronicler of his and ou ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From “weird, scary, ingenious” (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems—from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to R ...Show more
Keith Richards - Life by Keith Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
As lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world. A true and towering original, he has always walked his own path, spoken his mind, and done things his own way. Now at last Richards pauses to tell his story in the most anticipated ...Show more
Worse Things Happen at Sea: Tales of Life, Love, Family and the Everyday Beauty in Between by William McInnes & Sarah Watt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In William's first book A MAN'S GOT TO HAVE A HOBBY he wrote about family life in the 1960s with humour, affection and honesty. WORSE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA does the same for family life in 2000s; written by William and Sarah in a way that many Australians can relate to and enjoy. This book celebrates the ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
The Widow Clicquot : The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled it by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$45.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour and style, with tribute paid everywhere from Lord Byron to Casablanca. But who was this young widow - the 'Veuve' - Clicquot, whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune? Newly widowed, s ...Show more
A Man's Got to Have a Hobby : Long Summers With My Dad by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
William McInnes is a talented writer and a natural storyteller. A tail-end baby boomer, he recalls summer holidays that seemed to go on forever, when he and his mates would walk down to fish in the bay; a time when the Aussie battler stood as the local Labor candidate and looked out for his mates; and a ...Show more