All About Yves: Notes from a transition by Yves Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A timely and thought-provoking memoir about the trans experience. Was I always trans, part boy beneath my skin, or was it that I landed in a place where 'girl' was a container so small it could break your bones? I learn that a ready smile and sympathetic ear are the only props required to impersonate a ...Show more
Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years. Gillian Mears appeared to many to be a shy woman from Grafton, but her lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive pass ...Show more
Diplomatic: A Washington memoir by Joe Hockey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In September 2015 Joe Hockey's political career was brought to a dramatic end when Malcolm Turnbull successfully challenged Prime Minister Tony Abbott for the Liberal Leadership. Hockey was told by Turnbull he would no longer be Treasurer - a deal had been done with Scott Morrison. Hockey, who was at on ...Show more
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER PSYCHIATRIST- So how can I help you? ME- I don't know, I'm what's the word depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Se-Hee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her what to call it? depression? S ...Show more
The Girl in the Green Dress by Jeni Haynes, George Blair-West
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.'An intelligent, poised woman, Jeni Haynes sat in court and listened as the man wh ...Show more
Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary story to tell about grow ...Show more
Tiger's Eye: A Memoir by Inga Clendinnen
$25.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
An astonishing memoir by one of Australia's greatest writers. Clendinnen takes us on a journey into dangerous territory in which her body, her mind and her life are irrevocably changed. A brave and mesmerising book, it is not about being ill or well - its true subject is being alive.
The Happiest Refugee: My Journey from Tragedy to Comedy by Anh Do
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days - could ...Show more
Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Hill, Barry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The biography of T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession. ‘A group of men… chanting with the enthusiasm that made them forget age & weakness & becoming young again in spirit…the rising and falling of the chant melody, like the breathing that gives us life – what an unforgettable scene!’ Th ...Show more
Keeping Hope Alive: How One Somalian Woman Changed 90,000 Lives by Dr. Hawa Abdi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and children in urgent need of medical attention. As Islamist militia groups have been battling for control of th ...Show more
Life is Worth Swimming (HB) by Murray Rose
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Life is Worth Swimming is an intimate glimpse into the personal journey of Australian swimming icon Murray Rose--his life, his stories and his innermost thoughts. Throughout the book, enchanting images--some nostalgic, some recent and many from his private collection--document his life, highlight his wo ...Show more
Angela's Ashes: A memoir of childhood by Frank McCourt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father ...Show more