My Sixty Years on the Plains - Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Long before the American Revolution, fur trappers were traveling thousands of miles into the remote wilderness in their quest for beaver pelts, the frontier's most valuable commodity. These hardened, unsettled men were at the forefront of the Western expansion, hunting amid the Central Rockies by the 18 ...Show more
Son of the Brush: A memoir by Tim Olsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
The Rome Plague Diaries - Lockdown Life in the Eternal City by Matthew Kneale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rome: A History in Seven Sackings.
Walking With Ghosts - A Memoir by Gabriel Byrne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.'Make no mistake about it: this is a masterpiece . . . poetic, moving and very funny' -- Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World SpinAs a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel B ...Show more
Between Me and Myself: A Memoir of Murder, Desire and the Struggle to Be Free by Sandra Willson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On 29 April 1959, Sandra Willson, a twenty-year-old trainee psychiatric nurse from Paddington, devastated by the break-up of her relationship with her female lover, left her home and hailed a taxi. Asking the driver to take her to a remote location on the coast near Cronulla, she waited until he had sto ...Show more
Everything Harder Than Everyone Else: Why Some of Us Push Our Bodies to the Extreme by Jenny Valentish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
It's human nature to test our limits. But what happens when this comes to define you?When Jenny Valentish wrote a memoir about addiction in 2017, she noticed the people who treated drug-taking like an Olympic sport would often hurl themselves into a pursuit such as marathon running upon giving up. What ...Show more
A Life on the Line (MICA Flight Paramedic) by DARREN. HODGE
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Darren Hodge was a kid, a big, white, sleek ambulance squatted like a lion in the driveway next door, always ready to go, and sometimes it did, roaring down the street. Today, he is a MICA Flight Paramedic with decades of varied experience in 'a life of extremes' in an Australian ambulance service. ...Show more
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening What makes them powerful The reason ...Show more
No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani DiFranco
$44.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, ...Show more
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, as I Walked out One Midsummer Morning, a Moment of War by Laurie Lee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is a beautiful new edition of Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War. 'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.' ...Show more
Hard Knocks by Fiona Scott-Norman (editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Hard Knocks is a collection of interviews by Fiona Scott-Norman with famous and successful Australians who had a toughtime at school - either being bullied, not fitting in, or facing other adversities.The concept for the book is simple: many of the most popular Australians today were outsiders when they ...Show more
Punch Me up to the Gods by Brian Broome
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harbouring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut. Brian's recounting of his experiences-in all their cringe-worthy, hil ...Show more