Wesley: The Story Of A Remarkable Owl by Stacey O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When biologist Stacey O'Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl, little did she know that this fateful encounter would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien was immediately smitten, promising to care for th ...Show more
Guiding Lights - The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women by Shona Riddell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most of their stories are little-known. Guiding Lights includes stories from around the world, such as the dramatic torching of Puysegur Point, one of New Zealand' ...Show more
Our House Is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Greta Thunberg; Malena Ernman; Beata Ernman; Svante Thunberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Aged eleven, their eldest daughter has stopped eating and speaking. Alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, her parents slowly become aware of another source for her distress- her imperilled future on a rapidly h ...Show more
Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A revealing and explosive portrayal of Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's fifteen-year friendship with Melania Trump and observations of the most chaotic White House in history.
On Chapel Sands - My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**'A modern masterpiece' Guardian Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story. In the autumn of 1929, a small child w ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha's parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to Atlanta. There, her mother met the man who would become her second husband, and Natasha's stepfather. While she was still a child, Nat ...Show more
Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered (PB) by Georgia Hardstark; Karen Kilgariff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CULT-HIT TRUE CRIME PODCAST, MY FAVORITE MURDER In STAY SEXY & DON'T GET MURDERED, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, hosts of true crime comedy podcast 'My Favorite Murder,' open up about their lives more intimately than ever in their confessionally honest ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: good
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
Fury by Kathryn Heyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A raw, painfully honest, heartbreaking account of a young woman raising herself out of abuse and poverty to become her own hero. A roadmap of recovery and transformation, this is the story of becoming heroic in a culture which doesn't see heroism in the shape of a girl. At the age of twenty, after a t ...Show more
Watching Neighbours Twice a Day: How 90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me for Life by Josh Widdicombe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A childhood memoir about growing up in the middle of nowhere and watching too much TV, from beloved comedian, Josh Widdicombe. 'Read any history of the Nineties in Britain and you will read about Britpop, Blair, the birth of the Premier League and the rise of new lads. I played no part in any of these e ...Show more