Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world-without a road map to guide her. The journey begins a few months before her twentieth birthday. Janet Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation college stud ...Show more
Mr. Eternity by Aaron Thier
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A novel of exuberance and ambition, spanning one thousand years of high-seas adventure, environmental and cultural catastrophe, and enduring love. "Mr. Eternity will be sizzling in my brain for a long time." -Lauren Groff Key West, 2016. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everythi ...Show more
The Summit of Her AmbitionThe Spirited Life of Marie Byles by Anne McLeod
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Brave by Rose McGowan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the greatest tricks that the patriarchy plays on women is to deliberately destabilize them, then use their instability as a reason to disbelieve them. Much of BRAVE reads like the diary of a woman driven half-mad by abusive men who assume no one will listen to her. In t ...Show more
Your Life In My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story by Rachel Clarke
$16.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, held the hand of a young woman dying of cancer, scuttled down miles of dim corridors wanting to sob with sheer exhaustion, forgotten to eat, forgotten to drink, drawn on every fibre of strength that I possess ...Show more
Rebel With a Cause: Jacqui Lambie Memoir by Jacqui Lambie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Outspoken, unexpected and refreshingly honest - the candid memoir of Jacqui Lambie. 'You can't keep a bloody Lambie down' Jacqui Lambie in a radio interview, 14th November 2017 Jacqui Lambie has always stood out from the mainstream of Australian politicians - even in the announcement of her retirement f ...Show more
Whisperings in the Blood by Shelley Davidow
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
An exquisite, compelling story of courage, destiny and the search for home Lithuania, 1913. Haunted by memories of the pogroms, Jacob Frank leaves his village in the hope of a better life, and boards a ship bound for New York. Twenty - five years later, his daughter Bertha sets sail for South Africa to ...Show more
Extraordinary Life of A. A. Milne by Nadia Cohen (Contribution by)
$52.99 AUD
Category: Biography
VERY few authors can ever dream of coming close to the legacy left by AA Milne. He remains a household name in almost every corner of the globe thanks to a phenomenally popular collection of whimsical children's stories about a boy named Christopher Robin and his beloved teddy bear. Generations of child ...Show more
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Garner is a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garner's work as 'intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.' PRAISE FOR EVERYWHERE I LOOK'A captivating collection...No matter the topic, Garner is a charming and courageous writer whose distinctive voice ...Show more
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani ; Omid Tofighian (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Writings from Manus Prison
Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and f ...Show more
Life Force by Barry du Bois; Miguel Maestre (As told to); Amanda Keller (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Barry du Bois shares an incredible story that is heart-breaking and life-affirming in equal measures. Faced with the recurrence of his incurable cancer Channel 10's The Living Room's building and design expert Barry Du Bois leaves nothing to chance as he embraces a do-or-die treatment to extend his time ...Show more
Her Mother's Daughter - A Memoir by Nadia Wheatley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"Why didn't you and Daddy want people to give you any wedding presents?" I used to ask. But my mother could never be drawn into talking about the wedding. Later, I assumed it was because she did not wish to be reminded of the ghastly mistake she had made in marrying my father. Born in Australia in 1949 ...Show more