Holding The Man - Film Tie in by Timothy Conigrave; David Marr (Foreword by)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
As uplifting as it is moving, Holding the Man is a funny, sad and celebratory account of growing up gay, and a powerful love story. Now a major feature film directed by Neil Armfield and starring Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Kerry Fox, Camilla Ah Kin and Sarah Snook with Guy Pearce and Anthony LaPaglia. In t ...Show more
Big Tiny - A Built-It-Myself Memoir by Dee Williams
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Dee Williams's life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people and things she tr ...Show more
The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Blending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist's devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern world A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother livi ...Show more
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Father Dreg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you've ever met-a man who lounges in boxer shorts and loves action movies. His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church's country. When a crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their worlds collide. I ...Show more
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new so ...Show more
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - a ...Show more
The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu, Lady Murasaki
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Classics Ser.
The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalr ...Show more
More Please: An Autobiography by Barry Humphries
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Get a fascinating insight into the man behind the make-up and glasses in Barry Humphries' one and only autobiography Because Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications, the true details of his life are among the best-kept secrets of ...Show more
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
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Category: Biography & Memoir
You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, he gives us ...Show more
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson
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Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the "New York Times" bestseller. 'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from the waters of Key West to the ...Show more
The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox- potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined The ...Show more
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Soon to be a major film starring Ladybird's Beanie Feldstein as Johanna Morrigan and Game of Thrones's Alfie Allen as John Kite The phenomenal Number One Sunday Times Bestseller in hardback and now Number One in paperback! My name's Johanna Morrigan. I'm fourteen, and I've just decided to kill myself. ...Show more