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Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSandra Nieme
Port Townsend: Feral House, 2021.“Maila Nurmi, the beautiful and sheltered daughter of Finnish immigrants, stepped off the bus in 1941 Los Angeles intent on finding fame and fortune. She found men eager to take advantage of her innocence and beauty but was determined to find success and love. Her inspired design and portrayal of a vampire won a costume contest that lead to a small role on the Red Skelton show which grew into a persona that brought her the notoriety she desired yet trapped her in a character she could never truly escape. This is Malia’s story. Her diaries, notes, and ephemera and family stories bring new insights to her relationships with Orson Welles, James Dean, and Marlon Brando. Sandra Niemi–Malia’s niece–fills in the nuances of her life prior to fame and her struggles after the limelight faded and she found a new community within the burgeoning Los Angeles punk scene who embraced her as their own.” (publisher’s blurb)
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My Dear, Sweet Self: A Hot Peach Life
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJimmy Camicia
Silverton: Fast Books, 2013.Biography of Jimmy Camicia, founder of New York drag performance group, Hot Peaches.
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Don’t Type In Bed: Life with a Roving Journalist
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeggy Warner
Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1958.Biography of the wife of Australian foreign correspondent Denis Warner. Portrait photograph of Peggy by Athol Smith.
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Caught in the Act: A Memoir
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartShane Jenek AKA Courtney Act
Sydney: Pantera Press, 2021.“Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek: Raised in the Brisbane suburbs by loving parents, Shane realises from a young age that he’s not like all the other boys. He finds his tribe at a performing arts agency, where he discovers his passion for song, dance and performance. Shane makes a promise to himself- to find a bigger stage. Meet Courtney Act: Born in Sydney around the turn of the millennium, Courtney makes her name in the gay bars of Oxford Street and then on Australian Idol. Over ten years later, she makes star turns on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Celebrity Big Brother UK, bringing her unique take on drag and gender to the world. Behind this rise to national and global fame is a story of searching for and finding oneself. Told with Courtney’s trademark candour and wit, Caught in the Act is about our journey towards understanding gender, sexuality and identity. It’s an often hilarious and at times heartbreaking memoir from a beloved drag and entertainment icon. Most of all, it’s a bloody good time. (publisher’s blurb)
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George Randall: Emigration Officer Extraordinaire: A Biography
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJack Walton
Brisbane: CopyRight, 2007. -
Picturing a Nation: The Art & Life of A. H. Fullwood
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGary Werskey; A. H. Fullwood
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2021.“The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863-1930) was also the most widely viewed British-Australian artist of the Heidelberg era. Fullwood’s illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the Bulletin, as well as leading Australian and English newspapers, helped shape how settler-colonial Australia was seen both here and around the world. Meanwhile his paintings were as celebrated as those of his good friends Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. So why is Fullwood so little known today? In this pioneering, richly illustrated biography, Gary Werskey brings Fullwood and his extraordinary career as an illustrator, painter, and war artist back to life, while casting a new light on the most fabled era in the history of Australian art.” (publisher’s blurb)
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All The Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
AU$33.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRuth Coker Burks; Kevin Carr O’Leary
London: Trapeze, 2021.“Ruth Coker Burks was a young single mum in Hot Springs, Arkansas who cared for people with AIDS when no one else would in the 1980s and 1990s. With no medical background, Ruth single-handedly created a network of care, and saw to the final resting places of roughly a thousand men abandoned by families and neglected by medical professionals. For 30 years, Ruth has been an advocate for the LGBTQ community. She currently resides in Northwest Arkansas.” (publisher’s biographical note)
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Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteven Watts
Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. -
Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAutumn Stephens
Coral Gables: Conari Press, 2020.“Enjoy a fascinating and sometimes humorous glimpse into the lives of over one hundred, 19th-century Victorian era American women who refused to whittle themselves down to the Victorian model of proper womanhood. Included in Wild Women are 50-black-and-white photos from the era.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Take Me To Paris, Johnny
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Foster
Melbourne: Minerva, 1993.A Life Accomplished in the Era of AIDS.
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Marijuana: A Grower’s Lot
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKog
Kyogle: Greengrass Publishing, 2016.Third Edition with new chapter: Medical Marijuana.
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The Bird Man of Brisbane: Silvester Diggles and his Ornithology of Australia
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLouis J. Pigott
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2010.“When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds, profusely illustrated with hand-coloured lithographs. Acting as his own publisher from 1865 onwards, Diggles produced the first substantial zoological work to commence publication in Australia. The compilation and content of this rare work of art and natural history is examined here in the light of Diggles’ life and times, as well as his ornithological predecessors and contemporaries. So too is his role in establishing the first scientific society and museum in Queensland. Also presented in this lavishly illustrated publication are colour plates from his bird book, and some of his original bird paintings for the first time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Boy in the Yellow Dress
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Marsh
Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Press, 2014.“Perth in the 1950s. After being caught wearing his mother’s yellow dress, young Victor had to hide any tendency towards gender inappropriate behaviour. But his interest in dancing and theatre (and mooning over Rudolph Nureyev on the telly) were bound to make the facade collapse at some point. Emerging sexuality and the sense of not being ‘at home’ in his body, let alone the world, ran alongside a search for meaning that brought him eventually to a spiritual awakening under the young guru Maharaji… Part family tragedy, part existential comedy, The Boy in the Yellow Dress is a warts-and-all account of exile and the subsequent journey homewards that is less about finding a respectable place in the world than an intimate connection with the ultimate source of being.” (from blurb)
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Little Biographies: Massenet
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrederick H. Martens
New York: Brietkopf Publications, 1925. -
Little Biographies: Borodine
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrederick H. Martens
New York: Brietkopf Publications, 1925. -
Notes From a Waiting-Room: Anatomy of a Political Prisoner
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlan Reeve
London: Heretic Books, 1983.Reeve (born 1948) was sent to Broadmoor, a high security psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, at age 15 for murder. Inside Broadmoor he studied, gaining a degree in sociology and became focussed on radical politics, lobbying for gay liberation and prisoner right. During this time he also strangled a fellow patient to death. After 17 years of imprisonment he escaped and remained at large for one year before being arrested in the Netherlands following a gun fight during which he killed a policeman. This autobiography tells of his childhood, time in Broadmoor, his escape, up to his time in Amsterdam with an appendix containing details of the gun fight.
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Kazuo Ohno: Chronicle of a Lifetime, 1906-2010
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMinoh Tokumitsu; Kayoko Mizobata; Butoh Research Institute
Tokyo: Canta, 2010. -
Two Women, Two Worlds: Friendship Swept by Winds of Change
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAudrey McCollum
Hanover: Hillwinds Press, 1999. -
White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Conners
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2010. -
Outside It’s War: Anne Frank and her world
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJanny van der Molen
Amsterdam: Ploegsma, 2013.Illustrated by Martijn van der Linden.