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Crossing the Lines: The Story of Three Homosexual New Zealand Soldiers in WWII by Brent Coutts
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
In Crossing the Lines, Brent Coutts brings to light the previously untold history of New Zealand homosexual soldiers in World War II, drawing on the experiences of ordinary men who lived through extraordinary times. At the centre of the story are New Zealand soldiers Harold Robinson, Ralph Dyer and Doug ...Show more
Samoan Queer Lives by Yuki Kihara and Dan Taulapapa McMullin
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Samoan Queer Lives delves into the unique lives of Samoan people who are 'fa`afafine' - broadly understood in the Western interpretation as persons who are of transgender, intersexed and third sex, or gay, lesbian and bisexual origin. This book, the first of its kind, is edited and written by fa`afafin ...Show more
Hudson and Halls: The Food of Love by Joanne Drayton
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing - homosexuality. Peter Hudson and David Halls became reluctan ...Show more
To Be a Gay Man by Will Young
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
In To Be a Gay Man, Will Young speaks out about gay shame, revealing the impact it had on his own life, how he learned to deal with it, and how he can now truthfully say he is gay and happy. We know Will as a multi-platinum recording artist, Olivier-nominee, and the first winner of the Idol franchise. ...Show more
Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha History by Peter Wells
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experience ...Show more
Hello Darkness by Peter Wells
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
It's now a year exactly since my urologist told me I had an aggressive cancer that was incurable. I was rushed into hospital and thus began a year of chemotherapy, radiation and all the ups and downs of a sickness that arrived in my life with the noise and terror of an old fashioned train. During that t ...Show more
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished--and beloved--actors of his generation, who remains as popular as ever today. Born Archibald Leach in 1904, he came to America ...Show more
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
This program is read by the author. In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing ...Show more
To The End Of The World - Travels with Oscar Wilde by Rupert Everett
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary and outrageous memoir from award-winning writer and actor Rupert Everett. They say that sometimes ghosts don't realise they're dead and wander around screaming because no one is paying them any attention. Well, in show business you may have been dead five years before you finally twig ...Show more
Pride & Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes by Kathleen Archambeau
$15.00 NZD
$30.00 (50% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Stories of success, happiness and hope from the LGBT community Stories that comprise the best of LGBT history Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes tells the stories of queer citizens of the world living OUT and proud happy, fulfilling, successful lives. Diverse and global. Famous and ...Show more
Aidan, 19: So Far by Aidan Cahill
$5.00 NZD
$35.00 (85% off)
Category: Biography
Aidan was one of dozens and possibly hundreds of young men and women on New Zealand's streets. How do you meet someone in this situation, even if you have such an interest? How do they survive? Why are they in such a position? What are their aspirations? Such citizens of New Zealand are on the margins a ...Show more
A Dutiful Boy - A Gay, Muslim Memoir by Mohsin Zaidi
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household. Like Educated with a modern British context. Mohsin grew up in a deprived pocket of east London; his family was close-knit but very religiously conservative. From a young age Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay w ...Show more