Before I Forget by Geoffrey Blainey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a 'Living Treasure', in Before I Forget Geoffrey Blainey reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent in rural Victoria, from Terang to Leongatha ...Show more
Small Steps: A Physio in Ethiopia by Julie Sprigg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This heartfelt memoir and travel story is about an idealistic young woman forced to confront the limitations of how much difference she can make in a country rich in culture but stark in its deprivations. Julie Sprigg spent three years in Ethiopia, volunteering at a convent clinic and then teaching the ...Show more
The Grand Tour - Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 by Agatha Christie & Mathew Prichard (ed.)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on ...Show more
The Mind of a Thief by Patti Miller
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Exploring the history of the Wiradjuri people, the conflict of colonization, their mythologies, and their attachment to the land, author Patti Miller reveals both her own story and the position of Aboriginal people in today's society in this fascinating memoir. For 40,000 years, the Central New South Wa ...Show more
Spinifex Baby Finch Memoir Prize Winner 2014 by Karen Harrland
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Building on the success of Green Vanilla Tea comes the next winner of the annual Finch Memoir Prize. Finch Publishing is proud to support Australian writers through an annual prize for an unpublished memoir manuscript. The prize is $10,000 and publication. The 2014 title will be launched (with simultane ...Show more
The House on Carnaval Street by Deborah Rodriguez
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When her family faces kidnap threats after the publication of her first book, Deborah Rodriguez is forced to flee Kabul, leaving behind her friends, her possessions, the beauty school she helped found and her two beloved businesses: a beauty salon and a coffee shop. But life proves no easier 'back home' ...Show more
Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway
$32.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his working-class home north of Glasgow and travelled hundreds of miles to an English monastery to be trained for the priesthood. By twenty-five, he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. In 2000 he controversially resigned as Bishop of Edinburgh, h ...Show more
When It Rains by Maggie MacKellar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss...One is easy for people to recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five years in eight weeks...My other story marks me as different. It is more silent and more savage, it is not pure and no one knows how to approach it. Somewhere I l ...Show more
Little Brother - An Odyssey to Europe by Ibrahima Balde; Amets Arzallus Antia; Timberlake Wertenbaker (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A heartbreaking and magnificent account of a poor and illiterate young West African's odysssey. Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African country of Guinea, helps his father sell shoes at a street stall in the capital, Conakry. At the sudden death of his father, he becomes the head o ...Show more
Dying: A Memoir (PB) by Cory Taylor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Cory Taylor wrote this remarkable book in the space of a few weeks before her death from cancer in July 2016. In a tremendous creative surge, as her body weakened, she described the experience of knowing she would soon die. Her powerful and beautifully written book is a clear-eyed account of the tangle ...Show more
This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A sequel to the award-winning "Touching the Void", in which Simpson described a fall in the Himalayas which crippled and almost broke him. This is a memoir of the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown.
Island Girl to Airline Pilot: A Story of Love, Sacrifice and Taking Flight by Silva Mcleod
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the life story of Silva Mcleod, the first Tongan woman to become an airline pilot. She's still one of only a handful. Told by Silva with frankness and wit, it's quite a story. Silva takes us on a journey of cultural change from her beginnings as a poor island girl to her marriage to an Australia ...Show more