A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime - a biopic of a ...Show more
Reinventing Emma by Gee Emma
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Emma Gee is one of Australia's acclaimed Inspirational Speakers, offering her thoughts and solutions on client-centred care and resilience through her keynote presentations, workshops and consultancy. With a background in Occupational Therapy and as a Stroke Survivor, Emma is a renowned expert and a liv ...Show more
Finding My Feet: My Story by Hanny Allston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
‘In nothingness, there are only the heartbeats of hope. I vow to myself that I will clamber out of this hole. I will find my feet and flourish.’At 19, Hanny Allston faces a ‘perfect storm’. Her father is terrifyingly ill. Besides his hospital bed, she teeters painfully on crutches after surgery that cou ...Show more
Better To Have Gone: Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Beautifully written and structured, deeply moving, and realised in wise, thoughtful, chiselled prose... it is that rarity: a genuine non-fiction classic' William Dalrymple A spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia - and the often devastating cost of idealism. It’s the late 1960s, an ...Show more
Borderline by Sandie Jessamine
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The story of Sandie, who spent her teen years in Parramatta Girls Home, escaped twice, developed Borderline Personality Disorder but ultimately overcame her circumstances.
Beirut 2020: The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal by Charif Majdalani
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Charif Majdalani begins to walk the streets of his city, and to write down what he sees, the first hints of unrest within a vibrant culture creep to the fore. 'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital ... has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani i ...Show more
Tell Her She's Dreamin': A memoir for ambitious girls by Simone Amelia Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more. Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a sch ...Show more
Life Keeps Me Dancing: 108 years well lived, grounded in creativity, adventure and love by Eileen Kramer
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I am not old. I have just been here for a long time.' Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) ...Show more