Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens by Arthur Parkinson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
A captivating, beautifully illustrated memoir of a life in nature, and a testament to the mutual rewards and delights of keeping chickens, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Flower Yard Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, Arthur Parkinson never wanted a dog, or a cat, or a pon ...Show more
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Do No Harm ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks.With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving t ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more
Son of the Brush: A memoir by Tim Olsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
Between Me and Myself: A Memoir of Murder, Desire and the Struggle to Be Free by Sandra Willson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On 29 April 1959, Sandra Willson, a twenty-year-old trainee psychiatric nurse from Paddington, devastated by the break-up of her relationship with her female lover, left her home and hailed a taxi. Asking the driver to take her to a remote location on the coast near Cronulla, she waited until he had sto ...Show more
Hard Knocks by Fiona Scott-Norman (editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Hard Knocks is a collection of interviews by Fiona Scott-Norman with famous and successful Australians who had a toughtime at school - either being bullied, not fitting in, or facing other adversities.The concept for the book is simple: many of the most popular Australians today were outsiders when they ...Show more
My Sweet Guillotine by Jayne Tuttle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author of Paris or Die, returns to Paris with My Sweet Guillotine. In the wake of a bizarre, shocking accident in Paris, Jayne finds herself back in the city in a strange limbo. Ignoring the past, she tries to move forward. There is theatre. Love. New friendships. A new neighb ...Show more
Bush School by Peter O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond. There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang e ...Show more
Prehistoric Joy by Andrew Sneddon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Hailed as a real-life Boy Swallows Universe, a 'bold, brutal and unforgettable' memoir of growing up in the criminal underbelly of Queensland's Gold Coast in the 1980s.If being powerless makes you jumpy, then being poor makes you envious. You notice when other people are happy and you become keenly awar ...Show more
An Unlikely Prisoner: How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar’s Most Notorious Jail by Sean Turnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
How hope became one man's closest companion in his darkest hour. 'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar's terrifying Insei ...Show more
H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick by Helen Macdonald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to ...Show more
Broken Open by Craig Hamilton, Neil Jameson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
The true story of how ABC broadcaster Craig Hamilton stared down his demons to survive a mental breakdown. Description of the Book BROKEN OPEN is the story of ABC sports broadcaster Craig Hamilton and how, on the eve of the biggest undertaking of his career, he suffered a complete mental breakdown. Inst ...Show more