Freedom Fighter: My War Against ISIS on the Frontlines of Syria by Joanna Palani
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The gripping story of one woman's war against ISIS on the frontlines of Syria.
A Simpler Time by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts. Peter FitzSimons's account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and val ...Show more
Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
$22.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her first steps towards a life in music, from childhood piano lessons with a local jazz muso to international success as a concert pianist. As she discovers passion and ambition, and confronts doubt and disappointment, she learns about much more than t ...Show more
On the Chin: A Boxing Education by Alex McClintock
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The first thing that impressed me about Fritzy was his collection of boxing maxims, which he deployed continuously and without regard to their relevance: 'Ya don't play boxing', 'Don't hook with a hooker', 'Kill the body and the head'll die', 'Move ya head or the other guy'll move it for ya.' Fritzy was ...Show more
An Awesome Ride by Andrew Clarke; Cameron Smith; Cameron Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Hi guys. I have some bad news I want to tell you all.' So said seventeen-year-old Shaun Miller on YouTube in April 2012, shortly after receiving a devastating diagnosis about his heart condition. The clip has now been viewed millions of times. In 1994, when Cameron Miller found out he was going to be a ...Show more
Renia's Diary: A Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Renia Spiegel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
July 15, 1942, Wednesday Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I'm separated from the world. Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia i ...Show more
All Over But The Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
$26.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A correspondent for "The New York Times" recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from poverty and ignorance.
Walking Towards Thunder: The true story of a whistle-blowing cop who took on corruption and the church by Peter Fox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.' Former Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox is a hero in many people's eyes. A police officer with 36 years' service in the Hunter region, he rose to national prominence in 2012 for his major role in speaking out for the victims ...Show more
Beneath the Surface by Libby Trickett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The brave and inspiring memoir of one of Australian Swimming's Golden Girls, whose extraordinary achievements masked her private battles with anxiety and depression.
Unbowed by Billy Hedderman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I woke to the sight of a hospital ceiling. For that first blissful second, I forgot that I was paralysed.' On 31 December 2014 Billy Hedderman suffered a catastrophic injury to his spinal cord while body-boarding on the Sunshine Coast, paralysing him almost completely from the neck down. When asked if ...Show more
Will by Will Self
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
Will Self is one of Britain's most famous and infamous contemporary writers, a public intellectual known for his sardonic worldview, his logophilia, and his wide-ranging interests, from psychogeography to socialism to hard drugs. His novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and been translated ...Show more
I'm Staying at Richard's: Raising the Exceptional Son I Never Expected by Bernadette Agius
$26.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This inspiring, heartfelt, and powerful memoir by a mother of a child with Down syndrome explores the incredible blessings and challenges of raising a child with disabilities. When Bernadette Agius--an ambitious career-focused woman--became pregnant, she imagined her unborn child attending the best ...Show more