Dancing with the maternal bond: Life with an unusual child by Thea Calzoni
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Thea initially wrestles with the idea of motherhood and the threat of losing her own identity if she were to become a mother. However, all that is soon consumed by the birth of her first child, Julian, who is developmentally delayed and challenging. It explores the effects of having a disabled child on ...Show more
Walking With Ghosts - A Memoir by Gabriel Byrne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.'Make no mistake about it: this is a masterpiece . . . poetic, moving and very funny' -- Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World SpinAs a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel B ...Show more
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
What's important is our story, our whole story, including those moments when we feel a little vulnerable . . . Michelle Robinson started life sharing a bedroom with her older brother Craig, in their family's upstairs apartment in her great-aunt's house. Her parents, Fraser and Marian, poured their love ...Show more
Frida by Hayden Herrera
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
The beautifully illustrated and utterly absorbing biography of one of the twentieth century's most transfixing artistsFrida is the story of one of the twentieth century 's most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revol ...Show more
With Child - Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher by Andy Martin; Lee Child (Foreword by)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
With a foreword by Lee Child.Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of Never Go Bac ...Show more
Paris or Die - A Memoir by Jayne Tuttle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Paris. The beauty. The grime. The colours and thoughts and songs and sounds and children and dogs. The taste of strawberries, the sky, first métro, last métro, the bells, the dreams ... The city of light, it seems, has its own plans for Jayne. Drawn there in an entirely unforeseen way, she finds hersel ...Show more
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2 by Deborah Levy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Longlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction From the twice-Booker-shortlisted author comes a witty and audacious examination of writing and womanhood "Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it toge ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo. Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-s ...Show more
The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most powerful, influential a ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write.Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the ...Show more