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.
Always Remember Your Name: The Children who Survived Auschwitz by Andra & Tatiana Bucci
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank's Diary left off and gives voice to the children we lost. On 28 March 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were roused from their sleep and arrested. Along with their mother, Mira, their au ...Show more
Devil in a Coma by Mark Lanegan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan woke up breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his body burdened with a gigantic dose of Covid-19. Admitted to Kerry Hospital and initially given little hope of survival, Lanegan's ...Show more
Love in a Time of War - My Years with Robert Fisk by Lara Marlowe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'A gripping tale of savagery and courage, of history in the making, intertwined with rich personal reminiscences' Noam Chomsky 'This is a portrait of a couple bound in a lovesong, which like all such songs confronts the vagaries of leaving, longing and loss' Colum McCann 'A superb account of the life ...Show more
Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker. Let me tell you a story... When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their ...Show more
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 1992 by Tina Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious' Evening Standard 'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl Streep It's 1983. A young Englishwoman arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned in the hope that she can save Condé Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is plunged into the mae ...Show more
Words for Lucy: A story of love, loss and the celebration of life by Marion Halligan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
One morning, Lucy Halligan lay on her bed with her cat and went to sleep. Soon after, her heart stopped. But her mother, writer Marion Halligan, forced hers to keep beating. More joy than sorrow, this profoundly moving memoir celebrates Lucy's life, weaving together everyday details and treasured events ...Show more
Don't Look Away: A memoir of identity & acceptance by Danielle Laidley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Fearless. Tough. Uncompromising. This was the persona of former elite footballer and senior AFL coach, Danielle Laidley. Fearful. Vulnerable. Uncertain. This is how Danielle felt, for most of her life. For the best part of five decades, within a hyper-masculine sporting environment, Danielle Laidley h ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind.' - The Times In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. Ther ...Show more
Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe's heart of darkness by Pieter van Os
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large orthodox Jewish family in ...Show more
Forged with Flames by Ann Fogarty, Anne Crawford
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Forged with Flames is Ann Fogarty's poignant and compelling story of her experiences of the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983 and its devastating aftermath as she struggled to survive the severe burns she sustained to 75 per cent of her body, followed by a series of life-threatening events. These have had ...Show more