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 Writing On The Wall by Juliet Rieden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1938, as Hitler's troops are marching on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but destroy their family. Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s wondering why she had so few relatives, why her family ...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
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A story never before told and a memoir to help change our understanding of the world around us, 13-year-old Naoki Higashida's astonishing, empathetic book takes us into the mind of a boy with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, author of the global phenomenon, Cloud Atlas, and transla ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
The Man from Coolibah by Milton Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The youngest in a family of five, Milton Jones grew up on large properties in the outback. His father was a farm manager and so his early life was a world away from that of city kids. Milton left school in Queensland in his mid teens and moved back to the Northern Territory. Mustering was in his blood a ...Show more
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more