A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: good
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
My Tongue is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood: Winner of the 2023 National Biography Award by Ann-Marie Priest
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A masterful portrait of a major Australian writer, her incandescent poetry and her battles to be heard in a male-dominated literary establishment. The first biography of Gwen Harwood (1920-1995), one of Australia's most significant and distinctive poets. Harwood is renowned for her brilliance, but love ...Show more
Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write.Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the ...Show more
The Strength of Hope: A Holocaust Survivor's Guide to Love and Life by Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
One of most uplifting stories you will ever read. Abram Goldberg is a beacon of joy and optimism, and a master of keeping perspective. The day Abram and his mother arrived at Auschwitz death camp they both knew it would be her last. In their final moment together, Abram's mum urged her nineteen-year-old ...Show more
The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch by Paddy Manning
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first major biography of Lachlan Murdoch, one of the world's most powerful and enigmatic people -- an epic saga of ruthless power plays and family battles. As heir apparent to the first global media dynasty, Lachlan Murdoch has been waiting to run his father Rupert's empire all his life. In this ri ...Show more
Gladys: Staying Strong by Andrew L. Urban
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
ICAC’s witch hunt exposed: How ICAC unjustly pursued Gladys Berejiklian in Operation Keppel while targeting her then boyfriend Darryl Maguire MP, failing to recognise how state politics operates. Is anything permissible in the pursuit of political corruption and does the end justify the means? The NSW I ...Show more
The Queen by Andrew Morton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world.
Love & Autism by Kay Kerr
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am doing love wrong.' Michael made a name for himself on the hit show Love on the Spectrum. After his televised first dating experiences, will he complete his quest to find his queen? Chloë was always good at ...Show more
Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia by Om Dhungel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything.Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-La hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of ...Show more
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Perfect for fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed. Stephanie Land delves into the tenacity and anxiety of living – nay, surviving on poverty-level wages and intolerable working conditions. Amidst exhausting mental and physical efforts, the proverbial bootstraps bind ...Show more