Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind.' - The Times In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. Ther ...Show more
Memoirs by Robert Lowell
$79.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Of the twenty chapters that make up these Memoirs, seventeen appear here in print for the first time, unearthed by the editors from the Harvard Archive. They include intense depictions of Lowell's mental illness and his efforts to recover, and conclude with reminiscences of other writers - T. S. Eliot, ...Show more
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its hone ...Show more
My Sweet Guillotine by Jayne Tuttle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author of Paris or Die, returns to Paris with My Sweet Guillotine. In the wake of a bizarre, shocking accident in Paris, Jayne finds herself back in the city in a strange limbo. Ignoring the past, she tries to move forward. There is theatre. Love. New friendships. A new neighb ...Show more
Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe's heart of darkness by Pieter van Os
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large orthodox Jewish family in ...Show more
Desire: A Reckoning by Jessie Cole
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
What to do with the intensity of longing that occasionally arises? Sometimes I hug my pup so hard he growls. When my pup growls, I realise I need to find some other way of letting off steam. It's easy to imagine I could just touch myself and be done with it, but no matter how many times I make myself co ...Show more
A Kind of Magic by Anna Spargo-Ryan
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A memoir about anxiety, our minds, and optimism in spite of it all Where do mental illness stories begin? Anna’s always had too many feelings. Or not enough feelings – she’s never been quite sure. Debilitating panic. Extraordinary melancholy. Paranoia. Ambivalence. Fear. Despair. From anxious chi ...Show more
Still Alive - Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System (graphic) by Safdar Ahmed (Illustrator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
WINNER of 2022 Eve Pownall AwardA graphic novel detailing author Safdar Ahmed's experiences visiting the Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney. Safdar tells the stories of the people seeking asylum in Australia that he meets in Villawood.
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t ...Show more
The Stranger Artist: Life at the Edge of Kimberley Painting by Quentin Sprague
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
At a hinge-point in his life, artist and ex-gallerist Tony Oliver travelled to the East Kimberley, where he plunged into the crosscurrents and eddies of the Aboriginal art world. He would stay for almost a decade, working alongside a group of senior Gija artists, including acclaimed figures Paddy Bedfor ...Show more
Bush School by Peter O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond. There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang e ...Show more
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina--a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"--has been home to generations of L ...Show more