Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Janelle McCulloch
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies' college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that ...Show more
For a Girl: A True Story of Secrets, Motherhood and Hope by Mary-Rose MacColl
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
I am by nature a private person. Secrets are different from privacy. They are things you are forced to keep to yourself, by family, friends, by your own shame. Secrets like these come to the surface one day and demand an airing. Emerging from an unconventional, boisterously happy childhood, Mary-Rose Ma ...Show more
The Good Girl Stripped Bare by Tracey Spicer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From bogan to boned and beyond - a full-frontal 'femoir' by one of Australia's best-loved journalists 'Will you ever work in television again?' the journalist asks, thrusting a microphone towards me. 'I hope so,' I say before scuttling into a cafe. It's feeding time and I need to express. But questions ...Show more
China Baby Love by Jane Hutcheon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
How one woman turned her life upside down to help those who needed it most - half a world away. In 1997 Linda McCarthy Shum had a stable teaching career and a happy marriage with beloved partner Greg. Living in regional Queensland, Linda was a woman of deep faith with a family of grown children and gran ...Show more
Heretic Why Islam Needs a Reformation by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors of terrorism ...Show more
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey through Memory by Mark Raphael Baker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
What right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; it is the story of a son who enters his parents' memories and, inside the darkness, fin ...Show more
Broken: A Memoir by Emma White
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Four and a half months after her boyfriend became a paraplegic in a motorbike accident, he and Emma travelled to Australia, Emma's home country, and embarked upon a 15,000 kilometre backpacking trip. This story takes the reader on a whirlwind trip around Australia. A young woman struggling to accept her ...Show more
You Gotta Want It by Jake Paul
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In this extremely positive, motivational, and often laugh-out-loud memoir, Jake Paul pauses long enough from his supercharged day-to-day as a nineteen year old social media heartthrob and costar on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark to share his takes on life, love, fame, and shooting for the moon. G ...Show more
A Fig at the Gate: The Joys of Friendship, Gardening and the Gaining of Wisdom by Kate Llewellyn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A deeply satisfying diary of gardening, family, friends, ageing and renewal. In A Fig at the Gate, author Kate Llewellyn, now in her seventies, embraces a new phase in her life, asking the question, 'How does one live well?' Following the joyful crafting of her gardens in the Blue Mountains (The Waterl ...Show more
Sam's Best Shot: A Father and Son' Life- Changing Journey Through Autism, Adolescence and Africa by James Best
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Life with a teenage boy on the autism spectrum has its challenges. Fourteen-year-old Sam is a world authority on Harry Potter but can't get to the corner store on his own. Sam's parents Dr James Best and Benison O'Reilly decide to think radically to help their son. They sell the family home to finance a ...Show more
The Boy with Two Lives by Abbas Kazerooni
$15.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: On Two Feet and Wings
When ten-year-old Abbas arrives in England to start a new life - having just fled conscription into the Iranian army and survived almost three months alone in Istanbul, Turkey, waiting for a visa - he does not know that his troubles have only just begun.Abbas's cousin packs him off to boarding school, a ...Show more
The Jewel of Knightsbridge: The Origins of the Harrods Empire by Robin Harrod
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1836, Charles Henry Harrod found himself in a prison hulk awaiting transportation to Tasmania for seven years' hard labour. He had been convicted at the Old Bailey of receiving stolen goods, and this should have been the beginning of the end for his fledgling business and his family. And yet, in mira ...Show more