The Girls by Chloe Higgins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Winner of the People’s Choice Award in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2020. In 2005, Chloe Higgins was seventeen years old. She and her mother, Rhonda, stayed home so that she could revise for her HSC exams while her two younger sisters, Carlie and Lisa, went skiing with their father. On th ...Show more
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A story never before told and a memoir to help change our understanding of the world around us, 13-year-old Naoki Higashida's astonishing, empathetic book takes us into the mind of a boy with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, author of the global phenomenon, Cloud Atlas, and transla ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
The Man from Coolibah by Milton Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The youngest in a family of five, Milton Jones grew up on large properties in the outback. His father was a farm manager and so his early life was a world away from that of city kids. Milton left school in Queensland in his mid teens and moved back to the Northern Territory. Mustering was in his blood a ...Show more
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more
Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Touching the Void' is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor by Matt Latimer
$52.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most deliciously candid memoir ever written about official Washington - a laugh-out-loud cri de coeur that shows what can happen to idealism in a town driven by self-interest.
Last Tango in Toulouse: Torn Between Two Loves by Mary Moody
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The year of her fiftieth birthday, gardening writer Mary Moody ran away from home, family and work for six months to live in a remote French village. Her book about these experiences, 'Au Revoir', struck a chord with tens of thousands of readers. Yet those experiences were to mark a beginning rathe ...Show more
Safe Passage by IDA COOK
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Safe Passage brings back into print the life story of Ida Cook, one of Britain's best-loved romance novelists of the 20th century. In this gripping memoir, Cook tells the story of how she and her sister, Louise, transported Jews out of Germany in the years leading up to World War II.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is part memoir, p ...Show more
The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement by Virginia Lloyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
At 32, Virginia Lloyd finally meets the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with, only to discover that he is dying from cancer. When John dies just two years later, as well as handling her own grief, Virginia must battle the chronic rising damp in the house they shared. And so, in her first yea ...Show more