Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs
Absolutely: A Memoir
$19.99 – Hardback / Orion Publishing Co
The absolutely fabulous Joanna Lumley opens her private albums for this illustrated memoir Buy or find out more→
The World According to Joan
$25.00 – Paperback / Constable and Robinson
As an actress, author and producer Joan Collins has built a career that places her in the unrivalled ranks of an international icon. This title shares her life experiences. From manners to men via fashion and family, to ageing and... Buy or find out more→
Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend
$30.80 – Paperback / University of Minnesota Press
A celebration of the life and times of one of the greatest female stars of all time. Buy or find out more→
Jeannie Out of the Bottle
$35.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
One of Hollywood's most beloved icons reveals all in this magical memoir. Buy or find out more→
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
$35.00 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
A teen idol at 15, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at 20, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild... Buy or find out more→
If You Ask Me (and of Course You Won't)
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between. Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White's wit and wisdom take center stage... Buy or find out more→
I Was Douglas Adams's Flatmate: and Other Encounters with Legends
$30.00 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
Featuring Ernest Hemingway's La Secretaria , Johnny Cash's Tailor , Moazzem Begg's Lawyer , Tina Turner's Only White Dancer , Les Dawson's Gag Writer and a host of significant others, this title finishes with the author's... Buy or find out more→
My Animated Life
$29.95 – Paperback / Brandl & Schlesinger Pty Ltd
Australia’s animation pioneer Yoram Gross, in his newly released autobiography My Animated Life tells his story of a life filled with adventure, of how he outwitted the forces ranged against him before going on to... Buy or find out more→
Oprah
$25.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
For the past 25 years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. In turn, Oprah has allowed her audience to share in her own life story. After a quarter of a century of Oprah-isation, can there be any secrets... Buy or find out more→
Kardashian Konfidential
$35.00 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
The ultimate sisterhood autobiography, full of fun facts about their childhoods (guess who was the ugly duckling?), their beauty and style secrets, the wisdom they learned from their beloved father, and the street smarts they got... Buy or find out more→
One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries
$35.00 – Paperback / ABC Books
Barry Humphries is perhaps the greatest comic genius of our age. Satirist, comedian and burlesque entertainer, he enthrals audiences across the globe. Yet Humphries, the man, remains an enigma. One Man Show examines the life, and... Buy or find out more→
The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi: Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain's Greatest Comedian
$25.00 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778–1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face make-up and wear outrageous coloured clothes, he transformed the role of the Clown in... Buy or find out more→
Parky's People: The Interviews - 100 of the Best
$50.00 – Hardback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
A unique journey with Michael Parkinson through five decades of showbiz. Buy or find out more→
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
$30.00 – Hardback / Faber and Faber
A collection of autobiographical essays of Sarah Silverman that offers coverage that ranges from her epic struggle with hairy arms (there wasn't enough wax in the world) to the death of her infant brother (It was Nana's fault). Buy or find out more→
Lady Gaga
$23.00 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
We're all going gaga for Gaga. The first biography of the international superstar, style icon and pop princess... Buy or find out more→
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
$35.00 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
Born Mandy Rodgers just outside of Geelong, Portia de Rossi is one of Hollywood's most intriguing and talked about stars. Finding early in the Australian film Sirens, Portia went on to star in the hit TV series Ally McBeal,... Buy or find out more→
Russell Crowe - the Biography
$29.95 – Paperback / Wilkinson Publishing
One of Hollywood's hottest properties and the actor whose uncompromising reputation - both on and off the screen - Russell Crowe has a fascinating personal and professional story. With highly acclaimed roles in pictures such as LA... Buy or find out more→
Real And Reel The Education Of A Film Obsessive Critic
$29.95 – Paperback / Sid Harta Publishers
Real and Reel is a light-hearted, ironic account of a lifetime's addiction. It is one person's story, but it may strike familiar sparks among many others. Though there have been plenty of other interests to keep life lively,... Buy or find out more→
How to Make Gravy
$49.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
This special edition slipcased package contains Paul Kelly's much-anticipated memoir How To Make Gravy along with the companion A-Z Recordings box set, which includes eight CDs of new live recordings of the songs that form the... Buy or find out more→
Lessons in Letting Go: Confessions of a Hoarder
$29.95 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
It took a year to drag myself out of the mess. A year in which I lost my dearest friend and then promptly lost my way. A year in which I ran away overseas, came back and then ran away again. A year in which I learnt to let go,... Buy or find out more→
The Woman I Was Born to be
$36.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
Susan Boyle has become an international superstar. This astonishing transformation has not always been easy for her, in the whirlwind of attention and expectation, she has always found calm and clarity in music. This title tells... Buy or find out more→
Reg Grundy
$45.00 – Book / Murdoch Books
Reg Grundy is one of the most successful Australian media and television entrepreneurs of his generation. Here for the first time he tells his life story, in his own words. Buy or find out more→
Life: Keith Richards
$50.00 – Hardback / Orion Publishing Co
Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend. Buy or find out more→
Keep Rockin' - Billy Thorpe: Celebrating an Australian Music Legend
$45.00 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Talented, determined, fiercely independent and with one helluva voice, Australian music legend Billy Thorpe left an indelible impression on our pop culture and our musical history. Keep Rockin' celebrates the legend and the life... Buy or find out more→
Just Kids
$40.00 – Hardback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Non-Fiction. Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. It was... Buy or find out more→