David Mitchell: Back Story by David Mitchell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has writ ...Show more
The Boy Who Felt Too Much by Lorenz Wagner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Henry Markram is the Elon Musk of neuroscience, the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain. He has set the goal of decoding all disturbances of the mind within a generation. This quest is personal for him. The driving force behind his grand ambition ...Show more
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a sm ...Show more
Yours, for Probably Always - Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 by Janet Somerville
$49.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
As much as any woman in the twentieth century, Martha Gellhorn succeeded in her ambition to 'go everywhere and see everything and sometimes write about it.' It is wonderful to have this compendious new collection of letters from and to her, a few newly discovered. Janet Somerville has carefully set each ...Show more
Hell On The Way To Heaven by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"An Australian mother's love, the power of the Catholic Church and the fight for justice over child sexual abuse. Chrissie and Anthony Foster were like any other young family, raising their three daughters in suburban Melbourne with what they hoped were the right values. Chrissie could not have known th ...Show more
The Lotus Eaters by Emily Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Since childhood, Emily Clements' sense of self had always been shaped by the opinions of others and her need to be liked. When a stand-off with her best friend sees nineteen-year-old Emily stranded in Vietnam, she is alone for the first time and adrift in a new environment. With seemingly nothing to l ...Show more
Gods and Demons by Deborah Cassrels; Deborah Cassrels
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Behind the tourist veneer of Bali and greater Indonesia: a foreign correspondent's memoirA year after the 2005 Bali bomb atrocities, journalist Deborah Cassrels found herself on an odyssey to the Indonesian resort island grappling with her own existential crisis. Instead, she catapulted into a posting a ...Show more
Homesick - Why I Live in a Shed by Catrina Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home. *LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* *'You will marvel at the beauty of this book, and rage at the injustice it reveals' George Monbiot* *'Incredibly moving. To find peace and a sense of home after a li ...Show more
Before I Forget by Geoffrey Blainey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a 'Living Treasure', in Before I Forget Geoffrey Blainey reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent in rural Victoria, from Terang to Leongatha ...Show more
Small Steps: A Physio in Ethiopia by Julie Sprigg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This heartfelt memoir and travel story is about an idealistic young woman forced to confront the limitations of how much difference she can make in a country rich in culture but stark in its deprivations. Julie Sprigg spent three years in Ethiopia, volunteering at a convent clinic and then teaching the ...Show more
Money for Something: Sex Work. Drugs. Life. Need. by Mia Walsch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A scramble through drug addiction, mental illness and the Sydney sex industry in the early millennium. It's easy to talk to these women, tell them my deepest secrets. Look where we are. What else do we have to hide? When nineteen-year-old Mia is fired from her job at an insurance company, she makes the ...Show more
A Pig Called Alice - The Story of One Man and His Hog by Paul Heiney
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'To call Alice "just another pig" would be the gravest insult.'Alice the Large Black pig was Paul Heiney's best friend, his confidante and his therapist. This is the story of their tempestuous relationship with all its ups-and-downs, from her arrival as a 'large, black and expensive' Christmas present f ...Show more