The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hu ...Show more
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Dr Eben Alexander
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A New York Times Bestseller -- Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under ex ...Show more
At the Altar of the Road Gods: Stories of Motorcycles and Other Drugs by Boris Mihailovic
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Boris has more fun on two wheels than should be legally possible.' - Richard Fidler, ABC His mother may not know it but Boris Mihailovic has lived a fast, furious, often politicially incorrect life chasing the epiphanies of speed (the sensation not the drug). For Boris, motorbike riding was the rite of ...Show more
Martin Sharp: His life and times by Joyce Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: STELLA LL 2018
Martin Sharp's art was as singular as his style. He blurred the boundaries of high art and low with images of Dylan, Hendrix and naked flower children that defined an era. Along the way the irreverent Australian was charged with obscenity and collaborated with Eric Clapton as he drew rock stars and repr ...Show more
Broken: A Memoir by Emma White
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Four and a half months after her boyfriend became a paraplegic in a motorbike accident, he and Emma travelled to Australia, Emma's home country, and embarked upon a 15,000 kilometre backpacking trip. This story takes the reader on a whirlwind trip around Australia. A young woman struggling to accept her ...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
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
Everything to Live For The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt by Turia Pitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Everything to Live For is the story of one young woman's survival against extraordinary odds, a testament to the human spirit. In September 2011, Turia Pitt, a beautiful 25-year-old mining engineer working her dream job in the far north of Western Australia, entered an ultra-marathon race that would cha ...Show more
Mosaic : A chronicle of five generations by Diane Armstrong
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This remarkable true story begins in the Polish city of Krakow in 1890 and spans one hundred years and four continents. God blessed Lieba and the devout Jewish patriarch Daniel Baldinger with eleven children, and this richly textured portrait follows their lives down the decades, through the terrifying ...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
Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large ...Show more
The Space Between: Chaos. Questions. Magic. Welcome to your twenties. by Zara McDonald, Michelle Andrews
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
There’s this weird gap in life that’s fuelled by cheap tacos and even cheaper tequila – also known as our twenties. It’s a specific limbo of being suspended between being a teenager and a Proper Adult, and though it’s wildly confusing, often lonely, sometimes embarrassing and frequently daunting, there’ ...Show more