How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) ...Show more
Courage Under Fire by Daniel Keighran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
<i><b>'</b><b>A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame Quentin Bryce</b> </i> On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran ri ...Show more
My Life as a Jew by Michael Gawenda
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A multi-award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of a major Australian newspaper searingly explores his Jewish identity at a time when a substantial - and growing - part of the left is opposed to the very existence of Israel as a Jewish state. Born in a displaced persons' camp two years afte ...Show more
A Matter of Death and Life by Irvin D. Yalom, Marilyn Yalom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her fatal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret. Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom devoted his career to counselling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never had h ...Show more
My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies from shame from a key intersectional feminist thinker of a new generation It occurred to me then that the thing that made me the sickest, the thing that made me suffer most, was the fact that I felt so compelled to hide what had bee ...Show more
House of Kwa by Mimi Kwa
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Wild Swans meets Flesh Wounds in this riveting family saga spanning four generations The dreamer boy travelling on dragon hide ... a tiger running alone in the night ... Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her hair turned grey. Why would a father ...Show more
Love, Death & Other Scenes by Nova Weetman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
How do we become more after losing? Beloved Australian author Nova Weetman shares her heartfelt experiences with grief and loss while also celebrating the profound beauty of love and life. Nova Weetman's unforgettable memoir reflects on experiences of love and loss from throughout her life, including- ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
Bohumil Hrabal : A full-length portrait by Pelan, Jiri, Short, David
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
All That I Forgot by ANNE HOWELL
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A gripping memoir that reads like a psychological thriller... When Anne wakes in hospital, she is unable to recognise anyone or anything, mistaking herself for a young girl at first. She can talk but cannot remember much, including, as it turns out, the birth of her daughter, her rocky relationship with ...Show more
Falling Out Of Love with Ivan Southall by GABRIELLE. CAREY
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of nine, Gabrielle Carey fell in love with her favourite author. She wasn't alone. Hundreds of thousands of other young readers also fell in love with Ivan Southall and many wrote him adoring fan mail. But Ivan Southall - warm and tender in his letters to children - is not, she finds, so love ...Show more