Over the Hill and Up the Wall by Todd Alexander
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For every child with a frustrating parent and every parent whose child knows best. We love our parents, of course we do. But have you noticed how many things they do seem designed to drive us bonkers?It's the way they never follow doctor's orders, or conveniently relay only part of their treatment. It's ...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
Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens by Arthur Parkinson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
A captivating, beautifully illustrated memoir of a life in nature, and a testament to the mutual rewards and delights of keeping chickens, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Flower Yard Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, Arthur Parkinson never wanted a dog, or a cat, or a pon ...Show more
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Do No Harm ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks.With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving t ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more
Slow: Live Life Simply by Brooke Mcalary
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
From the creator of the award-winning Slow Home podcast comes Slow--the perfect companion on the long road to living a simpler and more fulfilled life. Once upon a time, Brooke McAlary thought she was close to having it all. Married to a wonderful man, mother to a lively young daughter and pregnant for ...Show more
Mr Eternity: The Story of Arthur Stace by Roy Williams; Elizabeth Meyers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Almost every day for 35 years, Arthur Stace spent hours writing a single word - Eternity - on and around the streets of Sydney. Sometimes his mission took him much further afield, to country New South Wales and even to Melbourne. Stace's identity was a mystery for more than two decades. Then, after his ...Show more
The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones by Anthony Bourdain
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
For all those Anthony Bourdain fans who are hungering for more, here is The Nasty Bits - a collection of his journalism. As usual Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, han ...Show more
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
Son of the Brush: A memoir by Tim Olsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
Between Me and Myself: A Memoir of Murder, Desire and the Struggle to Be Free by Sandra Willson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On 29 April 1959, Sandra Willson, a twenty-year-old trainee psychiatric nurse from Paddington, devastated by the break-up of her relationship with her female lover, left her home and hailed a taxi. Asking the driver to take her to a remote location on the coast near Cronulla, she waited until he had sto ...Show more