An Unlikely Prisoner: How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar’s Most Notorious Jail by Sean Turnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
How hope became one man's closest companion in his darkest hour. 'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar's terrifying Insei ...Show more
When It Rains by Maggie MacKellar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss...One is easy for people to recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five years in eight weeks...My other story marks me as different. It is more silent and more savage, it is not pure and no one knows how to approach it. Somewhere I l ...Show more
Devil in a Coma by Mark Lanegan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan woke up breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his body burdened with a gigantic dose of Covid-19. Admitted to Kerry Hospital and initially given little hope of survival, Lanegan's ...Show more
Rocky Road: The Incredible True Story of the Fractured Family Behind the Darrell Lea Chocolate Empire by Robert Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'The answer to our success was family.' In 1935, the Australian family confectionery company, Darrell Lea, was a sensation. Delicious chocolates, marshmallows, nougat and much more were displayed colourfully and plentifully in line with the family's motto, 'Stack 'em high, watch 'em fly'. It was at this ...Show more
Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for the first time by Pamela Anderson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"To live, And dream, Is a wicked dance. My dreams often come true- A curse, And a blessing." Pamela Anderson is an icon: an international superstar whose blonde bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered by Playboy during a football game in her native Canada, Pamela was quickly launched i ...Show more
Phosphorescence: The inspiring bestseller and multi award-winning book from the author of Bright Shining by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett ...Show more
Fourteen: My Year of Darkness, and the Light that Followed by Shannon Molloy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Fourteen is this generation's Holding the Man - a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man's search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regio ...Show more
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by ...Show more
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, 3rd Edition: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A renowned psychiatrist reveals how trauma affects children--and outlines the path to recovery How does trauma affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and sh ...Show more
The Care Factor: A Pandemic Nurse's Story by Ailsa Wild
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The Care Factor tells the story of one incredible nurse - one among many - who chose to meet an unprecedented global health crisis on the frontline. Simone Sheridan has one of the most sought-after skills today. As a nurse, her skill is to care. When Covid-19 began to spread across the world in 2020, Si ...Show more
Words for Lucy: A story of love, loss and the celebration of life by Marion Halligan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
One morning, Lucy Halligan lay on her bed with her cat and went to sleep. Soon after, her heart stopped. But her mother, writer Marion Halligan, forced hers to keep beating. More joy than sorrow, this profoundly moving memoir celebrates Lucy's life, weaving together everyday details and treasured events ...Show more
My Year Of Living Vulnerably by Rick Morton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably. 'Wonderfully readable and wide-ranging exploration of the visible and invisible touchstones of our lives ...Show more