Unicorn: the Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself. My name is Amrou Al-Kadhi – by day. By night, I am Glamrou, an empowered, fearless and acer ...Show more
Unknown: A Refugee's Story by Akuch KUOL ANYIETH
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting memoir of a young woman starting a new life in Australia under the shadow of violence A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting story about a young girl's escape, with her family, from war-torn South Sudan to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, and then to A ...Show more
Unlike the Heart: A Story of Brain and Mind PB by Nicola Redhouse
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
What is a mind? How can its ills be treated when it resides in a body and in a life? With the birth of Nicola Redhouse's first child comes an unrelenting anxiety that quickly overwhelms her. As immense as her love for her children is, it can't protect her from the dread that prevents her from leaving th ...Show more
Unmasked by Andrew Lloyd Webber
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre." One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Web ...Show more
Unmasked by Turia Pitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Whether via the numerous media reports, 60 Minutesspecials, Women's Weeklycover stories or her first book, Everything To Live For,we know about the why, how and what of that fateful day in September 2011. We know how she died four times on the operating table and her tortuous road to recovery. We've had ...Show more
Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
Unravelling Us by RENEE MCBRYDE
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 2017 Renee McBryde published her best-selling memoir in which she learned she was daughter of a convicted murderer, a secret she was made to keep by her mother, shrouding her childhood and early adulthood. In Unravelling Us, Renee delves into the most important relationship in her life, her mother, w ...Show more
Unrequited Love: Diary of an Accidental Activist by Dennis Altman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
Dennis Altman's long obsession with the United States began when he went there as a graduate student during Lyndon Johnson's Presidency. His early writing stemmed from the counter-culture that developed in the States in the mid-1960s. Altman was involved in early Gay Liberation, and his 1971 study Homos ...Show more
Unseen by Jacinta Parsons
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Broadcaster Jacinta Parsons was in her twenties when she first began to feel unwell – the kind of unwell that didn’t go away. Doctors couldn’t explain why, and Jacinta wondered if it might be in her head. She could barely function, was frequently unable to eat or get out of bed for days, and gradually t ...Show more
Untethered: A Memoir by Hayley Katzen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When urban academic Hayley Katzen moves to a remote Australian cattle property to live with her farmer girlfriend, she hopes, at last, to find home. But this is no happy-ever-after tree change. Lecture halls, law reform and the arts are replaced with castrating calves, shovelling manure, fire-fighting a ...Show more
Untitled: the Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anna Pasternak
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life? Amid the cacophony of condemnation her story has become obfuscated. Untitled is an intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in British royal history. His charisma a ...Show more