Goodbye Pet, and See You in Heaven: A Memoir of Animals, Love and Loss by Bel Mooney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When her beloved small dog died, Bel Mooney was astonished at the depth of her ongoing sorrow. Sharing her loss online and in a newspaper article brought a deluge of responses, spurring Bel to explore these feelings further. Why do humans mourn pets? Can animals themselves grieve - and do they have soul ...Show more
Telling Tales by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"To be brought up in Leeds in the forties was to learn early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere." In this delightful collection of reminiscences, Alan Bennett recalls his early years in a sequence of tales that are funny, touching and written in his unique ...Show more
This is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield by Paul Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Carter writes as if he has ADD, careering through his life on oil rigs in exotic locations. He won't win the Booker, but his yarns burn with anarchic energy ...in a word, irrepressible.' - Herald Sun He's back on the rigs and back in trouble. Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out mor ...Show more
The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten: the Memoirs of Marjorie Quinn by Marjorie Quinn
$34.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Including personal anecdotes of political and literary figures, with many of whom Quinn became good friends, The Years that the Locust hath Eaten is an historical document which provides a snapshot of the literary and political world of Sydney at the time of Federation and the first decades of the twent ...Show more
A Youth Not Wasted by Ian Parkes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'People who truly live in the outback listen to it. What they hear, I do not know ...What the country says is beyond words.' In the early 1950s, Australia was riding on the sheep's back and no-one doubted the wisdom of making a life in the wool industry, certainly not sixteen-year-old Ian Parkes. Having ...Show more
The Dirty Life: A Story of Farming the Land and Falling in Love by Kristin Kimball
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From a writer who traded her single life in the big city to marry a farmer, this is a true story of about falling in love with a man and with a different way to live, complete with runaway piglets and dew-fresh lettuce, sceptical locals and a wedding in a hayloft.
Man in a Grey Suit by Glenn Orgias
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I caught a wave and paddled back out. I was just inside the crowd when I ducked a small wave and it left white water boiling around me. A lump of swell came from the north. It reared as it approached the sand bank. I changed direction, and paddled towards it. I didn't see it. It came from behind, and b ...Show more
To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Originally published in 1949, TO HELL AND BACK was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More than fifty years later, this classic wartime memoir is just as gripping as it was then. Desperate to see action but rejected by both mar ...Show more
Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918 by Harry Kessler
$65.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler--patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat--present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle epoque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by th ...Show more
Mountain Heroes: Portraits of Adventure by Huw Lewis-Jones
$44.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Through the lives of legendary climbers and mountaineers, "Mountain Heroes" presents an epic account of endurance, enterprise, heroism and fellowship in the wildest of places. Come face to face with those who have spent their lives at altitude: explorers and pioneering travelers, intrepid ice climbers a ...Show more
The Local Wildlife by Robert Drewe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to northern New South Wales, where the 'local wildlife' doesn't just mean the native fauna, but the people as well. When Robert Drewe moved to this small community, he was expecting a few eccentrics and interesting animals -- and he got them.
Ricochet: Riding a Wave of Hope with the Dog Who Inspires Millions by Judy Fridono
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Ride the wave of hope with Ricochet the only dog in the world who surfs with wounded warriors, people with disabilities, and children with special needs as an assistive aid and SURFice dog. This tears-to-triumph story takes readers behind the TV and video sensation and shares the true journey that went ...Show more