Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-f ...Show more
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (Macmillan Collector's Library) by James Herriot
$14.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet sees recently qualified vet James Herriot firmly ensconced in the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and acclimatized to life with his unpredictable colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon. But veterinary practice in the 1930s was never going to be easy, and the ...Show more
The Gloves Are Off by Maggie Kirkpatrick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I can actually tell my story without benefit of playwright or hidden beneath the cloak of a character.' Maggie Kirkpatrick, famous for her role as The Freak in Prisoner, presents a no-holds-barred account of her life both on and off screen. In The Gloves Are Off, Maggie takes us on her journey from hum ...Show more
A Letter to Layla - Travels to Our Deep Past and near Future by Ramona Koval
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves? Much-loved writer and broadcaster Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest to answer these difficult questions and more. She speaks with an emin ...Show more
Secrets and Lies: A story of justice, perseverance and the life that comes after by David Meagher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
I was a victim of child sexual abuse. It occurred more than forty years ago, when I was just thirteen years old. This is the story about what happened to me, how I kept it to myself, how I eventually fought back and how - after decades of living with the impact of the abuse - I decided one day to finall ...Show more
Becoming by Michelle Obama
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African American to ...Show more
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General by Quentin Bryce
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even mo ...Show more
The Backyard Adventurer by Beau Miles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
After years of adventuring around the globe - running, kayaking, hitchhiking, exploring - Beau Miles came back to his block in country Victoria. Staying put for the first time in years, Beau developed a new kind of lifestyle as the Backyard Adventurer. Whether it was walking 90km to work with no provi ...Show more
No Man's Land: The Untold Story of Automation on QF72 by Kevin Sullivan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
nstinctively, I release my pressure on the sidestick. Out of my subconscious, a survival technique from a previous life emerges: Neutralise! I'm not in control so I must neutralise controls. I never imagined I'd use this part of my military experience in a commercial airliner ... On routine flight QF72 ...Show more
Life As I Know It by Michelle Payne, John Harms
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In Life As I Know It, Michelle Payne tells her deeply moving story. It will lift your spirits, stir your heart and give you courage. Michelle was put on a horse aged four. At five years old her dream was to win the Melbourne Cup. At thirty she rode into history as the first female jockey to win the Cup. ...Show more
The Girls by Chloe Higgins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Winner of the People’s Choice Award in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2020. In 2005, Chloe Higgins was seventeen years old. She and her mother, Rhonda, stayed home so that she could revise for her HSC exams while her two younger sisters, Carlie and Lisa, went skiing with their father. On th ...Show more