Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Touching the Void' is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor by Matt Latimer
$52.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most deliciously candid memoir ever written about official Washington - a laugh-out-loud cri de coeur that shows what can happen to idealism in a town driven by self-interest.
Last Tango in Toulouse: Torn Between Two Loves by Mary Moody
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The year of her fiftieth birthday, gardening writer Mary Moody ran away from home, family and work for six months to live in a remote French village. Her book about these experiences, 'Au Revoir', struck a chord with tens of thousands of readers. Yet those experiences were to mark a beginning rathe ...Show more
Safe Passage by IDA COOK
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Safe Passage brings back into print the life story of Ida Cook, one of Britain's best-loved romance novelists of the 20th century. In this gripping memoir, Cook tells the story of how she and her sister, Louise, transported Jews out of Germany in the years leading up to World War II.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is part memoir, p ...Show more
The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement by Virginia Lloyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
At 32, Virginia Lloyd finally meets the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with, only to discover that he is dying from cancer. When John dies just two years later, as well as handling her own grief, Virginia must battle the chronic rising damp in the house they shared. And so, in her first yea ...Show more
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog – A Funny and Heartbreaking Worldwide Bestseller by John Grogan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THAT MOVED DOG LOVERS ALL OVER THE WORLD **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING OWEN WILSON AND JENNIFER ANISTON** 'A book with intense appeal . . . tenderly follows its subject from sunrise to sunset' New York Times 'Not just a funny dog story . . . It's a universal st ...Show more
A Man's Got to Have a Hobby : Long Summers With My Dad by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
William McInnes is a talented writer and a natural storyteller. A tail-end baby boomer, he recalls summer holidays that seemed to go on forever, when he and his mates would walk down to fish in the bay; a time when the Aussie battler stood as the local Labor candidate and looked out for his mates; and a ...Show more
A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a 200-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from Iraq. King, forty-eight, was killed on 14 October, 2006. His son, Jordan, was six months old, and they had spent only two weeks together. A Journal for Jordan ...Show more
That'd Be Right: A Fairly True History of Modern Australia by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Part memoir, part personal history of Australia over the last thirty years, this is a biographical trip told through sport, families and the author's own experiences. He weaves in and around the events that have held a fascination for Australia. Some of these events would be considered momentous, some s ...Show more