Yeah, Nah!: A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are by William McInnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Join bestselling Australian storyteller William McInnes as he reflects on Australia's way of life and gives us his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. Whether we are bunging it on or behaving like a drongo, Australians have a turn of phrase for every situation that helps us. Our lin ...Show more
Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories by Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter - including lyrics, stories, photographs and tributes. A year after he entered the Dreamtime, Archie Roach's spirit continues to soar, much like the wedge-tailed eagle - his totem animal from his mother' ...Show more
The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys by Melinda Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist Melinda Ham. Following the narratives of new Australians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Tibet, Vietnam and Zaire, The Lucky Ones is a testament to human resilience and the power of new beginnings. For fans of Th ...Show more
Reinventing Emma by Gee Emma
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Emma Gee is one of Australia's acclaimed Inspirational Speakers, offering her thoughts and solutions on client-centred care and resilience through her keynote presentations, workshops and consultancy. With a background in Occupational Therapy and as a Stroke Survivor, Emma is a renowned expert and a liv ...Show more
Finding My Feet: My Story by Hanny Allston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
‘In nothingness, there are only the heartbeats of hope. I vow to myself that I will clamber out of this hole. I will find my feet and flourish.’At 19, Hanny Allston faces a ‘perfect storm’. Her father is terrifyingly ill. Besides his hospital bed, she teeters painfully on crutches after surgery that cou ...Show more
Better To Have Gone: Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Beautifully written and structured, deeply moving, and realised in wise, thoughtful, chiselled prose... it is that rarity: a genuine non-fiction classic' William Dalrymple A spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia - and the often devastating cost of idealism. It’s the late 1960s, an ...Show more
Borderline by Sandie Jessamine
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The story of Sandie, who spent her teen years in Parramatta Girls Home, escaped twice, developed Borderline Personality Disorder but ultimately overcame her circumstances.
Beirut 2020: The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal by Charif Majdalani
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Charif Majdalani begins to walk the streets of his city, and to write down what he sees, the first hints of unrest within a vibrant culture creep to the fore. 'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital ... has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani i ...Show more
The House With All The Lights On: Three generations, one roof, a language of light by Jessica Kirkness
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'If I were to tell you our story in sign language—the story of my grandparents and me—I'd begin with a single finger touching my chest.' Jessica Kirkness has traversed the boundary between deaf and hearing cultures all her life. Her memoir tells the story of her grandparents who grew up deaf in a he ...Show more
Tell Her She's Dreamin': A memoir for ambitious girls by Simone Amelia Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more. Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a sch ...Show more