Free the Bears by Mary Hutton and Julie Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1993, Perth grandmother Mary Hutton started a petition at her local shopping mall after seeing a news story about the extraction of bile from a caged and traumatised Asiatic Black Bear. Upon learning that thousands of bears were being held in these horrifying conditions throughout Asia, Mary was comp ...Show more
Whatever's Going to Become of Us?: The Story of One Boy's Struggle from Poverty to Success by Terry Hopley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
A rags-to-riches story of a young man named Terry who began life on a council estate in Dagenham, Essex. His friends in that impoverished neighbourhood included George Carey (who went on to become Lord Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury), Dudley Moore (destined for Hollywood stardom), and the famous Britis ...Show more
Carve Her Name with Pride by R. J. Minney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo.
Boy Lost A Family Memoir by Kristina Olsson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms at a train station in the hot summer of 1950. She was young and frightened, trying to escape a brutal marriage, and in no way prepared for this final blow. Yvonne would not see her son again for nearly 40 years. Kris ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher:The Autobiography by Margaret Thatcher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Margaret Thatcher is the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. No other prime minister of modern times has sought to change Britain and its place in the world as radically as she did. This is the story of her remarkable life in her own words - the definitive account of an extraordi ...Show more
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety by Daniel Smith
$36.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Anxiety once paralyzed Daniel Smith over a roast beef sandwich, convincing him that a choice between ketchup and barbeque sauce was as dire as that between life and death. It has caused him to chew his cuticles until they bled, wear sweat pads in his armpits, and confess his sexual problems to his psych ...Show more
Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest
$10.00 AUD
$19.99 (49% off)
Category: Memoir
A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any other.
A History of Silence : A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"A daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today."--The Guardian "Jones' rejection of isolationism and imaginative embrace of so much that the world has to offer make him a literary figure to w ...Show more
On My Knees: A Memoir by Periel Aschenbrand
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On My Knees is Periel Aschenbrand's seriously funny follow-up to her debut memoir The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own. At the beginning of On My Knees, we find Periel chain-smoking her days away on a plastic-covered couch, watching reruns of Law & Order while she squats in her deceased grandmother's ap ...Show more
Changing Gears: In Search of a Simpler Life by Greg Foyster
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Greg Foyster wakes one day and realises his job in advertising is hopelessly at odds with how he wants to live. Looking for inspiration, he and his partner Sophie decide to cycle from Melbourne to Far North Queensland (via Tasmania, naturally) scouting out ways to live more simply. On the road, the coup ...Show more
Standing on My Own Two Feet by Clare Sultmann
$28.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Pinned under 10-tonne truck for 37 horrific minutes, Clare Sultmanns doctors were not optimistic—at risk of losing her legs, and her life, Clare set out on an extraordinary journey to recovery. But the young woman’s determination to survive was overshadowed by doubt, and fear: “Would I ever walk again? ...Show more
A Smile For My Parents by Heather Henderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Heather Henderson is the only daughter of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and founder of the Liberal party. Father and daughter were very close, and in 2011 Heather edited and published Letters to My Daughter, a collection of letters written by Menzies to Heather throughou ...Show more