Lucid by Lucy Holden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'In Bath I lay in a field with headphones on, drunk, and staring at an empty blue sky that reflected nothing of the chaos in the world. Below the fields flashed the seaweed-green of a London train and I imagined my former life at the end of it but felt more like it had been tied to the tracks and career ...Show more
Monument by Bonny Cassidy
$32.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy’s fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past — part poetry, part prose, microhistory, memoir, travel ...Show more
Rainbow Pie - A Redneck Memoir by Joe Bageant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
A coming-of-age memoir wrapped around a discussion of America's most taboo subject - social class. Set between 1950 and 1963, Joe uses members of his rambunctious Scots Irish family to chronicle the often heartbreaking post-war journey of 22 million rural Americans into the cities, where they became the ...Show more
The Strong Man by Grant Edwards
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful, inspiring memoir of life under fire and the battle back from the brink by a man who has seen conflict around the world Grant Edwards was once an elite athlete, Olympics qualifier and Australia's strongest man. His Guinness Book of Records feats of strength were acclaimed internationally, a ...Show more
Untethered: A Memoir by Hayley Katzen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When urban academic Hayley Katzen moves to a remote Australian cattle property to live with her farmer girlfriend, she hopes, at last, to find home. But this is no happy-ever-after tree change. Lecture halls, law reform and the arts are replaced with castrating calves, shovelling manure, fire-fighting ...Show more
Father of the Lost Boys by Yuot A. Alaak
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
During the Second Sudanese Civil war, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced from their villages or orphaned in attacks from northern government troops. Many became refugees in Ethiopia. There, in 1989, teacher and community leader Mecak Ajang Alaak assumed care of the Lost Boys in a bid to pro ...Show more
Wesley: The Story Of A Remarkable Owl by Stacey O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When biologist Stacey O'Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl, little did she know that this fateful encounter would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien was immediately smitten, promising to care for th ...Show more
Our House Is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Greta Thunberg; Malena Ernman; Beata Ernman; Svante Thunberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Aged eleven, their eldest daughter has stopped eating and speaking. Alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, her parents slowly become aware of another source for her distress- her imperilled future on a rapidly h ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha's parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to Atlanta. There, her mother met the man who would become her second husband, and Natasha's stepfather. While she was still a child, Nat ...Show more
Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered (PB) by Georgia Hardstark; Karen Kilgariff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CULT-HIT TRUE CRIME PODCAST, MY FAVORITE MURDER In STAY SEXY & DON'T GET MURDERED, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, hosts of true crime comedy podcast 'My Favorite Murder,' open up about their lives more intimately than ever in their confessionally honest ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: good
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more