The Bookshop Darlinghurst: New Products - Memoirs

So Gay for You : Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:37:14 +0000

"The point is we're all connected, see? Through love, through loneliness, through one tiny, lamentable lapse in judgment. All of us, in our isolation, we reach out from the darkness, from the alienatio..
Price: $36.99

The Little Book of Miriam

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 12:07:22 +0000

From ARNIE to DOLLY, BLACKADDER to SCORSESE; GRAHAM NORTON to HARRY POTTER; the VAGINA MONOLOGUES to ZOOM, welcome back to the irrepressible and unstoppable world of Miriam Margolyes.

Packed with her wit, wisdom and unfiltered stories, The Little Book of Miriam..
Price: $34.99

All the Way to the River: Love, Loss and Liberation

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:44:36 +0000

In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Ra..
Price: $34.99

What a Girl Wants

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:02:42 +0000

I am 13 years old and these are my secrets.
1. I have a crush on Jet from ITV gameshow Gladiators. So strong! So pretty!
2. I still play with Barbie dolls. It’s mostly making them scissor. Or snog. Or lie on to..
Price: $44.99

How the f*ck would I know? A memoir

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:43:30 +0000

This is not a how-to book - because who really knows how to live a life?

Fleeing to Australia as a "Ten Pound Pom" in the 1970s, Kate didn't expect her demons to follow her. It took facing her truth to break free of the drugs and alcohol that had controlled her since her..
Price: $29.99

The Chronology of Water

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:25:59 +0000

A journey of addiction, grief and the healing power of art - the memoir from the highly acclaimed author of The Book of Joan.

From the debris of her troubled early l..
Price: $24.99

Fearless & Free

Mon, 26 May 2025 12:58:53 +0000

The autobiography of the fabulous, rule-breaking, one-of-a-kind Josephine Baker, published in English for the first time.

This is the iconic Josephine Baker in her own words.

Funny, candid and unconventional: the wildly famous but elusive Josephine Baker tells her..
Price: $39.99

Chutzpah : a memoir of faith, sexuality and daring to stay

Mon, 26 May 2025 12:52:47 +0000

A fearless navigation of faith and sexuality, Chutzpah explores what is possible when one person simply refuses to choose between abandoning their roots and abandoning themselves.

As the daughter of a rabbi raised in an Orthodox Jewish community, Yehudis strugg..
Price: $45.00

A Room of One's Own

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:42:53 +0000

Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.

In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful image..
Price: $19.99

Always Home, Always Homesick

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:21:54 +0000

In my brief breath of life, might I find a way to fit light to paper?'

In a land of ethereal beauty, within a culture soaked in myth, a young woman discovers the story that will change her life.

In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian..
Price: $36.99