Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Tony Kelly, Rebecca Lister
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When Rebecca Lister and Tony Kelly move from Melbourne to Mount Isa to care for Rebecca's elderly mother, Diana, they have no idea what they've signed up for. The isolation, sweltering heat and limited employment opportunities make settling into the mining town a challenge. While Rebecca deals with her ...Show more
Blueberries by Ellena Savage
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, an arti ...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: Biography and 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
Our House Is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Greta Thunberg; Malena Ernman; Beata Ernman; Svante Thunberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Aged eleven, their eldest daughter has stopped eating and speaking. Alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, her parents slowly become aware of another source for her distress- her imperilled future on a rapidly h ...Show more
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Each ch ...Show more
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on...' In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy, outrage ...Show more
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time. Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holl ...Show more
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - My family, the holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home office, and piles of children's books for when my ...Show more
Couchsurfing in Russia: Friendships and Misadventures Behind Putin's Curtain by Stephan Orth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 5.5 Travel
'In the late summer of 2016' writes award-winning travel writer Stephan Orth, 'a journey to Russia feels like visiting enemy territory.' In this humorous and thought-provoking book, Orth ventures through that vast and mysterious territory to uncover the real, unfiltered Russia not seen in today's headl ...Show more
Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden World by Stephan Orth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In Couchsurfing in Iran, award-winning author Stephan Orth spends sixty-two days on the road in this mysterious Islamic republic to provide a revealing, behind-the-scenes look at life in one of the world's most closed societies. Experiencing daily the otwo Iranso that coexist side by side-the otheocracy ...Show more
Rust - One woman's story of finding hope across the divide by Eliese Goldbach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
When Eliese Goldbach was nine years old, she decided to become a Catholic nun. Twenty years later, with a Master's degree, she found herself making steel in the Rust Belt during the 2016 US election season. A small part of her wondered if she'd got stuck inside a dream that had gone horribly wrong. Trum ...Show more
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by ...Show more