The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina--a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"--has been home to generations of L ...Show more
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly ...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
The King: The Life of Charles III by Christopher Andersen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen comes a vivid and unsparing yet sympathetic portrait of one of the most complex and enigmatic figures of our time: Charles, who has taken his place on the throne after being the oldest and longest-serving heir in British history. Since the d ...Show more
Full Life by President Jimmy Carter (Miller Center of Public Affairs)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In his major "New York Times" bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian ("Booklist"). At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with ...Show more
Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
In 1992, a climber was left to die by other climbers on Mount Everest, which horrified Joe Simpson who was himself left for dead in Peru in 1985. In this book Simpson explores anecdotally and in heated debates with his climbing companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s.
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.
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more
Inseparable Elements: Dame Mary Durack by Patsy Millett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dame Mary Durack AC DBE, born to the heritage of a pioneering family, has long been recognised as one of Australia's great literary figures. Inseperable Elements- Dame Mary Durack by Patsy Millett is a daughter's perspective of her mother's life.Dame Mary Durack Miller was born into a pastoral legacy th ...Show more
Over the Hill and Up the Wall by Todd Alexander
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For every child with a frustrating parent and every parent whose child knows best. We love our parents, of course we do. But have you noticed how many things they do seem designed to drive us bonkers?It's the way they never follow doctor's orders, or conveniently relay only part of their treatment. It's ...Show more
The Criminal Class: Memoir of a Prison Teacher by Paul A. MacNamara
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
“Teaching in the jail system is a surreal experience, a whole other existence. In this bizarreness you encounter things that make you shake your head, shake your fist, cry your heart out, laugh your head off and blow your mind. And I felt compelled to write it down; to capture its un-realness. Hopefully ...Show more
Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper by Nicholas Irving with Gary Brozek
$12.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the legendary special operations sniper and New York Times bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's most significant missions - none of which have ...Show more