Don't Call Us Carnies: We are Showies and damn proud of it by Norma Brophy, Wendy Stuart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
While many Australian teenagers have dreamed of joining a travelling circus, Norma Brophy wanted to run away from it. As a born and bred 'show person', she adored her early years on the road, running wild in town after town with her fellow little 'showies'. But growing up backstage of a famed travelling ...Show more
Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe by Anna Kent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A story of women in crisis, seen through the eyes of a remarkable midwife 'My own suffering, my own loneliness, was a fair price to pay for the lives we'd saved. And now here I am, training to be a midwife, so that next time I can make it better.'Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for t ...Show more
The Mouth that Roared by Les Twentyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Award-winning writer, Robert Hillman, has collaborated with one of Australia's best-known youth outreach workers and social campaigners, to bring his story to the public in that wonderful storytelling style that Robert and Les share. Raised in Braybrook in Melbourne's Western suburbs, Les has devoted hi ...Show more
Half the Sky: How to Change the World by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
$28.99 AUD
Category: Biography
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances: a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery; an Ethiopian woman left for dead after a dif ...Show more
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Raw and radical, unfamiliar and beguiling - a journey through Britain's breathtaking flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories contained in those landscapes. Noreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their stark beauty, their formidable calm, their refusal to cooper ...Show more
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
$59.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale 'I shall never look at any painting in th ...Show more
Spare by The Duke of Prince Harry Sussex
$59.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century- two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their li ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
A Scar is Also Skin (PB) by Ben Mckelvey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From bestselling author Ben Mckelvey comes the inspiring story of stroke, heart attack, survival and remaking a broken body and mind. A book for those who bought Sarah Wilson's First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Osher Gunsberg's Back, After the Break and Emma Carey's The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. ...Show more
On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life by Lesley Blanch; Georgia de Chamberet
$23.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lifelong passion was for Russia, the Balkans and the Middle East. At heart a nomad, she spent the greater part of her life travelling the remote areas her books ...Show more
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A memoir HB by Grace Tame
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertainty - by trauma and strength, sadness and hope, terrible lows and wondrous highs. As a teenager she found the courage to speak up after experiencing awful and ongoing child sexual abuse. This fight to find he ...Show more
Everything and Nothing by Heather Mitchell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A powerful, immersive and intimately candid memoir exploring the light and shade that co-exist in love, family and the arts, from esteemed Australian stage and screen actor Heather Mitchell. Behind the scenes, Heather Mitchell's real life has taken many remarkable twists and turns. Training an unflinch ...Show more