My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm: Winner of the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Nonfiction by Sam Vincent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer living in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother- his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but 'not to worry - it wasn't like that scene in Fargo or anything'. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, h ...Show more
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
Challenge Accepted! by Celeste Barber
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted is a hilarious and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas and how to rock a sexy scar. It's real, like totally, really real. Actor, writer and comedian, Celeste Barber is one very funny woman - not to ment ...Show more
Two Mums and a Dad by TOBY ROBERTS
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties made them stick out, then a mum with a procession of live-in lovers had the neighbours wondering if this mob had mista ...Show more
The 99th Koala by Kailas Wild
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In last summer's devastating fires, Kangaroo Island lost half of its koala population, with many more left injured and starving. This is the inspiring and sometimes confronting story of someone who went to help and ended up a koala dad. When Kailas Wild - arborist by trade and conservationist at heart ...Show more
High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's social life ever since she had her first sip of beer, at 13. She thought nothing could curb her love of big nights. And then c ...Show more
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to you. And I have had a lot of things said to me.' In None of the Above, Travis Alabanza examines seven phrases people have directed at them about their gender identity. These phrases have stayed with them ...Show more
I'm Liz Hayes by Liz Hayes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Liz Hayes has graced our television screens for more than four decades. Millions of Australians kicked off their weeks with Liz co-hosting Channel 9's Today show, and now for over 25 years have settled into their Sunday nights to watch her investigative journalism on 60 Minutes. From camping in grizzly ...Show more
Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller, Tracks, the story of a mother and daughter, of love, loss and the pursuit of freedom. In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea ...Show more
How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
How do you write a memoir when you have lost your memories? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues. I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did ...Show more
Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories by Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter - including lyrics, stories, photographs and tributes. A year after he entered the Dreamtime, Archie Roach's spirit continues to soar, much like the wedge-tailed eagle - his totem animal from his mother' ...Show more
Back from Hell by Laurie Woods
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The adrenaline that pumps through the veins of men flying Lancaster bombers over Germany while ack-ack explodes around them is only matched by the gut-wrenching nervousness in their stomach. "Will I be the next statistic?" Shortly after the war the memories keep flooding back through nightmares that are ...Show more