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Teacher by Gabbie Stroud
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This debut from a former Queensland judge's associate breaks the silence around sexual assault and all the ways Australia's court system tries to silence victims. If you're wondering why Australia's #metoo movement hasn't ...Show more
Calypso by David Sedaris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: good
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso ...Show more
Waiting for Elijah by Kate Wild
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
Some witnesses to the shooting say otherwise, though, and this act of aggression doesn't fit with the sweet, sensitive, but troubled young man that Elijah's family and friends knew him to be. The shooting devastates Elijah's family and the police officer alike. So what happened in that Armidale laneway ...Show more
Care Factor: A Pandemic Nurse's Story by Ailsa Wild
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The Care Factor tells the story of one incredible nurse - one among many - who chose to meet an unprecedented global health crisis on the frontline. Simone Sheridan has one of the most sought-after skills today. As a nurse, her skill is to care. When Covid-19 began to spread across the world in 2020, Si ...Show more
My Year of Living Vulnerably by Rick Morton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In early 2019, Rick Morton, author of acclaimed, bestselling memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt, was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder - which, as he says, is just a fancy way of saying that one of the people who should have loved him the most during childhood didn't. So, over the cou ...Show more
Wild at Heart by Alienor le Gouvello
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
From the moment French-born Alienor encountered a pair of wild horses in the Australian outback, she was transfixed. Fiercely loved by some and considered a scourge by others, brumbies have a complicated place in Australian culture and history. Inspired to celebrate their character, Alienor tamed thre ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workah ...Show more
The 99th Koala by Kailas Wild
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In last summer's devastating fires, Kangaroo Island lost half of its koala population, with many more left injured and starving. This is the inspiring and sometimes confronting story of someone who went to help and ended up a koala dad. When Kailas Wild - arborist by trade and conservationist at heart ...Show more
Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett ...Show more
How to Be a Complete and Utter Blunt by James Blunt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one' James Blunt, 6 December 2014 Once upon a time, James Blunt's most enduring legacy was a three-minute, thirty-second pop song about a girl he saw on the underground, and a nation's worth of abuse. But with the invention of Twitter, James found his real vo ...Show more
Happy (and Other Ridiculous Aspirations) by Turia Pitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
What's the greatest quest of humanity? No, it's not the Knights Templar, or life on Mars, or the perfect pair of jeans. I suspect that the number one thing you're searching for in your life is ... happiness. Why do I suspect that? Because thousands of people have told me. So, I set out on a dragon-free ...Show more
