Hana: The Audacity To Be Free by Hana Assafiri
$34.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I am every woman and every woman's quest to be free.' Hana Assafiri is a much loved and revered social activist and radical entrepreneur. Through the medium of food and dining in her now-renowned Moroccan Soup Bar, Hana has worked tirelessly to rectify the systemic and social barriers to women's empow ...Show more
Dissolve by Nikki Gemmell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space for herself and found her voice. Decades later she has written a deeply persona ...Show more
Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A triumphant story of hope and survival. I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and fac ...Show more
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
$59.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale 'I shall never look at any painting in th ...Show more
Mood. A memoir of love, identity & mental health by Roz Bellamy
$34.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Mood is a memoir that perfectly suits our times, and our collective journey to understand how we are shaped by our identities. It is a testament to hard-won growth through self-knowledge. Roz Bellamy is a first-generation Jewish Australian who identifies as non-binary. They met their wife, Rachel, as ...Show more
Wild - A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. 'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long ...Show more
Line in the Sand by Dean Yates
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter ...Show more
New Wave Vision by Hayden Cox
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Hayden Cox started his surfboard brand Haydenshapes at the age of 15 while still at school, taking on a fickle industry where few succeed beyond local reach. Today he is an award winning designer and entrepreneur who took his passion, young ideas and vision for doing things differently, and created a be ...Show more
No Job for a Woman by Sallyanne Atkinson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
"Sallyanne Atkinson was the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the first female senior trade commissioner to Paris and has been a leader in business and corporate life for over four decades. No Job for a Woman takes us from her wartime childhood in Sri Lanka through her early career as a journalist an ...Show more
Hooked: The Secrets of a High Class Call Girl by Samantha X
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Samantha X is not your typical hooker. She's the wrong side of 35, has two kids and counts dining at her local pizzeria as a wild night out. Career-wise, Samantha had it all: writing for Australia's top-selling women's magazines, appearing as a media expert on television and travelling the world for the ...Show more
Cows in Trees: A Warm and Witty Memoir of a Vet's Life by Julian Earl
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Highly qualified veterinary surgeon Julian Earl, entertains the reader with a few of his favourite tales and events fromhis long career not to mention the most bizarre of all - attending to a cow stuck in a tree! Chapters are littered with anecdotes, hilarious memories, and veterinary stories all told i ...Show more
Adventures of a Wonky Eyed Boy by Jason Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
‘“Mrs.Byrne, you’ve a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy, with a wonky eye.” My mother wept for all the wrong reasons as she was handed me by the midwife. She could have slept with a platypus and still I would have come out better than this.’ So begins Jason Byrne’s Memoir. It was a time wh ...Show more