Lou Reed:The Last Interview by Lou Reed
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A revealing collection of interviews with one of the greatest artists in the history of rock ’n’ roll—as brilliant, punchy, and blustery as the man himself In this collection of powerful interviews given over thirty years—including his final interview—Lou Reed oscillates between losing patience with his ...Show more
Buckley's Chance by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England ...Show more
The Lost Boy: Tales of a Child Soldier by Ayik Chut Deng
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In episode 1 of the Ray Martin fronted SBS series Look me in the eye two South Sudanese migrants now resident in Brisbane sat across from each other and looked into each other's eyes. One of them, Ayik, was once a ten-year-old boy soldier training in the junior forces of the SPLA and like many of the yo ...Show more
She I Dare Not Name by Donna Ward
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A compelling memoir about the single life and the courage to live alone in a world made for couples and families.
Glide: Taking the Panic Out of Modern Living by Lisa Forrest
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A unique and insightful story that will inspire readers to let go of their own never-enough story, really 'get on their own side', and take the panic out of modern living.
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. F ...Show more
A Dog Called Harry by Jill Baker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
You want a friend, get a dog - Gordon Gekko 'Jeez, look at you, my friend blurted. 'You hardly smile. You used to be hilarious but you haven't laughed in weeks.'She listed the things she thought might help: a bottle of wine, six months at the beach, a year overseas. I was having none of it. Finally, she ...Show more
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