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
Love, Sweat and Tears: One Woman's Incredible Journey Through Grief, Fear and Loss to a Lifelong Dream of Working with Animals by Zelie Bullen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The inspirational true story of a remarkable young woman who overcame an underprivileged childhood, personal tragedy and depression to work as a stunt woman and then as one of the most successful animal trainers in Australia, if not the world. Zelie's love of animals and their affection for her has kept ...Show more
The Girl With No Name by Marina Chapman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A young girl who is abducted and abandoned in the Colombian jungle. She spends five years living with a family of monkeys before being found and sold in to slavery. 'It all happened so quickly. One minute I was squatting on the bare earth, preoccupied with popping pea pods, and the next I saw a flash of ...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
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival by Judith Tebbutt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; and of how I made a choice to survive by any and ...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
Bert Hinkler by Grantlee Kieza
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Grantlee Kieza tells the thrilling story of Bert's life and with it the bigger story of how the world was changed forever by men like Hinkler. Fast paced and revealing, this is an overdue, full-blooded biography about one of Australia's most astonishing sons. He's all but been lost from history but once ...Show more
Carrier Attack Darwin 1942: The Complete Guide to Australia's Own Pearl Harbor by Tom Lewis
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
When the Pacific war began it was a case of "when not if" Darwin would be attacked. But nobody could have predicted the extraordinary scale and ferocity of the 19 February 1942 raid. A massive strike force, blooded at Pearl Harbor just weeks before, hit Darwin in the biggest Japanese air attack ever in ...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
Farewell to the East End (Call the Midwife #3) by Jennifer Worth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: CALL THE MIDWIFE 3
The third and final book in the bestselling CALL THE MIDWIFE series, soon to be a major BBC TV series. This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by tube ...Show more