Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love by Mark Raphael Baker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
One minute my wife was there. In a flash she was gone. In the ten months of Kerryn's dying, I prepared myself for everything except for her death. Now that she is gone, I am desperate to know her as I never knew her. Thirty Days is a portrait of grief, of a marriage and of a family. It is the moving mem ...Show more
The Husband-Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne De Courcy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of you ...Show more
Things That Helped: a Memoir of Illness and Recovery by Jessica Friedmann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Through the tide of hormones surging within my body, and the little runnels of blood, and the sour tang of my breasts, I lay awake, listening, and thinking of breath and of water. I had broken my relationship with sleep. In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postp ...Show more
Up Until Now by Petrea King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Petrea King is one of those rare Australians who have changed the country for the better.' Richard Glover As a child Petrea King was dogged by health issues, spending many years in and out of hospital and undergoing numerous operations. After leaving school at fourteen, she worked as a secretary until ...Show more
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The Monk of Mokha is the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astoni ...Show more
Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood by Edgar Feuchtwanger
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family-the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author, Lion Feuchtwanger. He was a carefree five-year-old, pampered by his parents and his nanny, when Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, moved into the building op ...Show more
The Crappiest Refugee by Hung Le
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On the last day of the Vietnam War, nine-year-old Hung jumped on a leaking prawn trawler on the Saigon River, somehow cheating death to become one of the first Vietnamese boat people to arrive Australia, a land where a young man’s potential is limited only by his imagination – that is unless you’re Hung ...Show more
My Ikaria: How the people from a small Mediterranean island inspired me to live a happier, healthier and longer life by Spiri Tsintziras
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Three years ago, Spiri Tsintziras found herself mentally, physically and spiritually depleted. She was stretched thin - raising kids, running a household and managing a business. She ate too much in order to keep going and then slumped in front of the telly at night, exhausted, asking herself 'What is i ...Show more
Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a "genius" (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in ...Show more
Sophie's Boys by Sophie Smith; Deborah FitzGerald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Sophie and Ash discovered they were expecting triplets, it was much more exciting than daunting. But when Sophie went into labour at only 21 weeks, their world was turned upside down. Though they fought fiercely they could not escape tragedy. Tiny Henry lived for just one cherished hour, Evan for 1 ...Show more
Bono - Rescue Cat Who Helped Me Find My by Helen Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Having survived a brush with cancer, Helen Brown, happily married with three grown children, took stock of her comfortable suburban life and found it wanting. So when she was invited to visit New York, the city that never sleeps, she seized the day and accepted. Perhaps, she mused, she might never retur ...Show more
Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail by Wil Patterson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Wil Patterson was your everyday working husband and father, trying to keep up with the latest car, house and toys for his family. Always one to make light of things, he nevertheless became increasingly desperate about how he was going to pay his bills. One day while at work at his insurance job, he came ...Show more