Our House Is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena Ernman; Greta Thunberg; Beata Ernman; Svante Thunberg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink 'Urgent, lucid, courageous ... a must-read message of hope ... It is a glimpse of a saner world' David Mitchell, Guardian This is the story of a happy family whose life suddenly fell ap ...Show more
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Pa ...Show more
Swimming Home: A Memoir by Judy Cotton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Introducing a major new Australian literary voice - an unforgettable memoir of the complicated love between a mother and daughter. 'Easily the most vivid memoir I have ever read' -Sebastian Smee 'I am sitting at my father's desk, waiting to call Intensive Care . . . It is September, the wattle is flow ...Show more
The Best of Me by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"Genius... It is miraculous to read these pieces... You must read The Best of Me." --Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA CNN and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the MonthFor more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a un ...Show more
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between t ...Show more
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper and wearing a mask - or not - was a decision mostly made on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy Go Lucky opens, ...Show more
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life i ...Show more
Eye Spy by Ruth Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Age range 3 to 6. In this twist on the favourite childhood game, the reader must solve a riddle to guess which animal is hiding, and then search for it in the beautifully detailed illustrations.
A Gallery of Cats by Ruth Brown
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Age range 3 to 6 No visit to an art gallery can rival this one! Tom visits a very special exhibition where each picture features a cat. One by one, the cats all leap out and follow him, until a very large, scary cat makes them rush back to the safety of their frames. But these aren't just any cats or an ...Show more
Rebel: My escape from Saudi Arabia to freedom by Rahaf Mohammed
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women ...Show more
Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism' Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeAn epic, multige ...Show more
Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
'As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all...' At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top sell ...Show more