We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly ...Show more
Dying: A Memoir (PB) by Cory Taylor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Cory Taylor wrote this remarkable book in the space of a few weeks before her death from cancer in July 2016. In a tremendous creative surge, as her body weakened, she described the experience of knowing she would soon die. Her powerful and beautifully written book is a clear-eyed account of the tangle ...Show more
This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A sequel to the award-winning "Touching the Void", in which Simpson described a fall in the Himalayas which crippled and almost broke him. This is a memoir of the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown.
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more
Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs., think-tanks and Nordic secretaries by Tompkin William
$79.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Bill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager, when the Navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was personally present at the "Battle of L.A." when a thousand rounds of a ...Show more
Beyond Band of Brothers : The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On D-Day, Dick Winters took off with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and prepared to parachute into German-held north France. Ground troops landing on Utah beach were relying on Easy Company to secure one of the causeways that were vital if the troops were to get off the beaches and reach the solid gr ...Show more
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Seventeen Brushes with Death | Reading Level: very good
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extr ...Show more
Ciao Bella! Six Take Italy by Kate Langbroek
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Kate Langbroek’s deliciously funny, irreverent and inspiring memoir about moving to Bologna with her family to seek la dolce vita is a glorious reminder of what we can learn from the Italians about living life to the full – and what really matters when the world goes to hell in a handbasket. ‘I wasn’t ...Show more
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Canons | Reading Level: good-very good
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, histo ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
Island Girl to Airline Pilot: A Story of Love, Sacrifice and Taking Flight by Silva Mcleod
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the life story of Silva Mcleod, the first Tongan woman to become an airline pilot. She's still one of only a handful. Told by Silva with frankness and wit, it's quite a story. Silva takes us on a journey of cultural change from her beginnings as a poor island girl to her marriage to an Australia ...Show more
Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-cha ...Show more