Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac-here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black gen ...Show more
Calving Straps and Zombie Cats by Anthony Bennett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Village Vets
The hilarious true adventures of two young vets dealing with all creatures (and humans!) great and small in country Australia. Best mates and vets Ant and James are a bit older and wiser now, and have taken the big step of going into practice together - opening a busy clinic in Berry, in country New Sou ...Show more
After by Nikki Gemmell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Nikki Gemmell's world changed forever when the body of her elderly mother was found and it became clear she had decided to end her own life. After the immediate shock came the guilt and the horror, for Nikki, her family, relatives and friends. No note was left, so the questions that Elayn's euthanasia d ...Show more
Scoundrel Days: A Memoir by Brentley Frazer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
In Scoundrel Days Brentley Frazer tells the story of his youth - wild, disillusioned, impassioned and desolate. Born into a Christian cult in outback Queensland, Frazer escapes through literature and poetry, drugs and violence, sex and alcohol; and his ensuing rejection of religion, authority and the 'w ...Show more
Rev Head by Shane Jacobson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Join actor and presenter Shane Jacobson on a wild ride down the highways and byways of his motoring obsession. My life as a motoring tragic Was it luck that gave me the chance to race at Bathurst? They say Luck is when Skill meets Opportunity. In my case Luck came when Not-Quite-Enough-Skill overshot ...Show more
The Many Ways of Seeing by Peter Bishop; Nick Gleeson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In desperation, I look up into mum's face. A small face - a loving face --And the lights go out. Her face is the last image I will ever see in my lifetime.Blind since the age of seven, Nick Gleeson has spent his life learning to 'see' without seeing.Growing up in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Br ...Show more
Purple Threads by Jeanine Leane
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Winner of the 2010 David Unaipon Award for Indigenous WritingIt fell from the sky and rose from the ground. Water from the hills met swollen river flats and turned wheat plains to swamplands. Big floods washed away the farmers' profits and losses in one giant tongue of brown water Growing up in the shif ...Show more
The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir by Maude Julien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The Only Girl in the World is an inspiring testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Maude Julien's childhood was defined by the iron grip of her father, who was convinced his daughter was destined for great deeds. His plan began when he adopted Maude's mother and indoctrinated her with his esote ...Show more
The Last Australian Childhood by Kevin Moloney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The Last Australian Childhood, written by Kevin Moloney, is a collection of 40 vignettes written in the different voices of a child, reflecting his age at the time the story is set. The stories tell of Kevin's family life, growing up in suburban Melbourne inthe 1960s as a Catholic boy who lost his fathe ...Show more
Because We Are Bad by Lily Bailey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A vivid, darkly funny, moving and uplifting account of a young woman's struggle with OCD.
Follow My Dust by Jessica Hawke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A biography of Arthur Upfield as told to Jessica Hawke with an introduction by Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Here is Arthur Upfield's own story, the author of those remarkable murder mysteries set in odd corners of Australia and featuring the Aboriginal sleuth named 'Bony'. A detailed dossier ...Show more
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017**'Rich and unusual, this is a book to treasure' Alex Preston, ObserverPenelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's ...Show more