In the Shadow of the Valley - A Memoir by Bobbi Conn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A clear-eyed and compassionate memoir of the Appalachian experience by a woman who embraced its astonishing beauty, narrowly escaped its violence, and struggles to call it home.Bobi Conn was raised in a remote Kentucky holler in 1980s Appalachia. She remembers her tin-roofed house tucked away in a vast ...Show more
The Mother of the Brontës - When Maria Met Patrick by Sharon Wright
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At long last, the untold story of the mysterious Mrs Bront .They were from different lands, different classes, different worlds almost.The chances of Cornish gentlewoman Maria Branwell even meeting the poor Irish curate Patrick Bront in Regency England, let alone falling passionately in love, were remo ...Show more
Portrait of the Artist's Mother - Dignity, Creativity and Disability by Fiona Place
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Portrait of the Artist's Mother is a memoir and an examination of the politics of disability. Fiona Place describes the pressure from medical institutions to undergo screening during pregnancy and assumptions that a child with Trisomy 21 should not live, even though people with Down syndrome do live ric ...Show more
Smash Cut by Brad Gooch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City-a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passions-with cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and a host of others legendary ar ...Show more
The Great Agnostic - Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought by Susan Jacoby
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A biography that restores /robert Ingersoll--America's foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism--to our still-contested twenty-first-century public square "Jacoby makes the case that Americans are dearly indebted to Ingersoll, and would be well-served to revisit his life and writing ...Show more
At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew Greig
$21.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I should like you to fish for me at the Loch of the Green Corrie,' MacCaig commanded months before his death. 'Go to Lochinver and ask for a man named Norman MacAskill - if he likes you he may tell you where it is. If you catch a fish, I shall be delighted. If you fail, then looking down from a place i ...Show more
Aftershocks - Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
*** ONE OF BARAK OBAMA'S 'BEST BOOKS OF 2021' *** 'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST 'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES 'Brilliant and devastating...tender and lacerating' PANDORA SYKES 'One of the literary world's most promising new voices' RED I have lived in disaster and d ...Show more
Franklin and Eleanor - An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinised partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer, to Eleanor's purported lesbi ...Show more
The Elm Grove Story - A Mystical Journey by Edwin and Laurel Lloyd-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Diana Mosley by Anne De Courcy
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom ...Show more
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest - A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding by Eoghan Daltun
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
On the Beara peninsula in West Cork, a temperate rainforest flourishes. It is the life work of Eoghan Daltun, who had a vision to rewild a 73-acre farm he bought, moving there from Dublin with his family in 2009. An Irish Atlantic Rainforest charts that remarkable journey. Part memoir, part environment ...Show more
Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean by Brett Archibald
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
If you were terrified watching Open Water or The Shallows, or suffered along with Aron Ralston through his ordeal in 127 Hours, you will find this true story of Brett Archibald's ordeal, lost overboard in the Indian Ocean, absolutely extraordinary. 'When I heard Brett had fallen overboard, after twelve ...Show more