All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir by Shulem Deen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skveres, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US the US, he knows little of the outside world. After turning on the radio, his curiosity leads him to a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs and ...Show more
Holding The Man - Film Tie in by Timothy Conigrave; David Marr (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As uplifting as it is moving, Holding the Man is a funny, sad and celebratory account of growing up gay, and a powerful love story. Now a major feature film directed by Neil Armfield and starring Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Kerry Fox, Camilla Ah Kin and Sarah Snook with Guy Pearce and Anthony LaPaglia. In t ...Show more
After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak by Alice Nelson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson presents a powerful collection of fourteen narratives by Australian Holocaust survivors told in thei ...Show more
Journeys with My Mother by Halina Rubin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
A baby is born in Warsaw in 1939. Stalin has signed a pact of nonaggression with Hitler, marking the beginnings of the Second World War. As the city is attacked, Ola, a young nurse, escapes with her husband-to-be and their newborn baby to a small town in Soviet territory just across the border. Two year ...Show more
Joy & Sorrow: The Story of an Exclusive Brethren Survivor by Joy Nason
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Joy Nason was born into an English working class family during World War Two and raised in the fundamentalist Christian cult of the Exclusive Brethren. Growing up in this strict and demanding world, her family migrated to Australia in the 1950s. In her early 20s, Joy made the courageous decision to fle ...Show more
Reckoning - A Memoir (HB) by Magda Szubanski
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia's most beloved performers, tells her story. In this extraordinary memoir, Magda describes her journey of self-discovery from a suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father ...Show more
Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader' The Times The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns. Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. S ...Show more
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continue ...Show more
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin by Donna-Lee Frieze
$62.00 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word "genocide" and propelled the idea into international legal ...Show more
Lizzie: A Biography of Elizabeth Watts by Ivy Skowronski
$22.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Lizzie's story tells of early life with the Wiradjuri tribe moving across Australia, to gradual assimilation with white settlers. 8 Her life has been hard. Married at 14 to an abusive man old enough to be her grandfathher she eventually attained independence.
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they're the birdwatchers' dark grail.' As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falcon ...Show more
My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me by Boris Mihailovic
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Whether you're into dirt bikes, road bikes, ride a Yamaha, scooter or Laverda: if you've ever experienced the primal rush of riding a motor bike, the pain of crashing, the suffering of healing and the epiphanies of speed, then this book is for you. My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me is about frien ...Show more