The Rome Plague Diaries - Lockdown Life in the Eternal City by Matthew Kneale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rome: A History in Seven Sackings.
My Wild Life - Adventures of a Wildlife Photographer by Suzi Eszterhas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As a young girl, Suzi Eszterhas knew she wanted to be a wildlife photographer. But how did she go from snapping pictures of cats in her backyard to taking photos of cheetah cubs in Kenya? In this nonfiction picture-book biography, Eszterhas invites readers to find out what her life is like behind the le ...Show more
Little Brother - An Odyssey to Europe by Ibrahima Balde; Amets Arzallus Antia; Timberlake Wertenbaker (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A heartbreaking and magnificent account of a poor and illiterate young West African's odysssey. Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African country of Guinea, helps his father sell shoes at a street stall in the capital, Conakry. At the sudden death of his father, he becomes the head o ...Show more
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs by Sandra Hogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s. Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told' - Susan Johnson'It reads like the very best of spy thrillers.' - Matthew Condon'An intimate and compelling look at an ordinary family who happen to be ASIO agen ...Show more
The Women's Doc: True Stories from My Five Decades Delivering Babies and Making History by Caroline de Costa
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Funny and poignant stories from the labour ward and from the frontline of campaigns for women's reproductive rights, from Australia's best known obstetrician. 'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology ...Show more
Watermarks: Life, Death and Swimming by Lenka Janiurek
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Lenka Janiurek's memoir discusses the men who defined her life, and the challenges of identity, belonging and family. Lenka Janiurek's story really begins after the death of her mother when she was a small child, and speaks of the men who came to define her life; she is the daughter of a Polish immigran ...Show more
Everything Is Going To Be K.O.: An Illustrated Memoir Of Living With Specific Learning Difficulties by Kaiya Stone
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties. A hilarious and heartfelt illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties. In Everything is Going to be K.O. , Kaiya Stone writes about her experiences of living with specific learning difficulties: from struggling at ...Show more
Between Me and Myself: A Memoir of Murder, Desire and the Struggle to Be Free by Sandra Willson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On 29 April 1959, Sandra Willson, a twenty-year-old trainee psychiatric nurse from Paddington, devastated by the break-up of her relationship with her female lover, left her home and hailed a taxi. Asking the driver to take her to a remote location on the coast near Cronulla, she waited until he had sto ...Show more
Everything Harder Than Everyone Else: Why Some of Us Push Our Bodies to the Extreme by Jenny Valentish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
It's human nature to test our limits. But what happens when this comes to define you?When Jenny Valentish wrote a memoir about addiction in 2017, she noticed the people who treated drug-taking like an Olympic sport would often hurl themselves into a pursuit such as marathon running upon giving up. What ...Show more
The School of Restoration: The Story of One Ugandan Woman Who Has Given Hope to Hundreds of Female Survivors of War and Violence by Alice Achan; Philippa Tyndale
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The powerful and uplifting story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female victims of war and violence. Alice Achan was just thirteen when the Lord's Resistance Army first terrorised her village in northern Uganda in 1987. She spent five years on the run from the brutal LRA, and then ...Show more
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C Ford
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honour and overcome our origins.
The Accidental Teacher by Tim Heath
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Funny, poignant, charming and deeply sad at times, this is a beautifully written story of a life in teaching. Tim Heath taught for about 40 years, mostly in New Zealand but also in Samoa, in small country schools, in big city schools, at the Correspondence School, in primary schools and secondary school ...Show more