Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland by Amanda Berry (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
$47.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
The #1"New York Times"Bestseller A bestsellingbook that isinspiring the nation: We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know: "we survived, we are free, we love life." Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver ...Show more
All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir by Shulem Deen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skveres, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US the US, he knows little of the outside world. After turning on the radio, his curiosity leads him to a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs and ...Show more
Holding The Man - Film Tie in by Timothy Conigrave; David Marr (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As uplifting as it is moving, Holding the Man is a funny, sad and celebratory account of growing up gay, and a powerful love story. Now a major feature film directed by Neil Armfield and starring Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Kerry Fox, Camilla Ah Kin and Sarah Snook with Guy Pearce and Anthony LaPaglia. In t ...Show more
After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak by Alice Nelson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson presents a powerful collection of fourteen narratives by Australian Holocaust survivors told in thei ...Show more
Journeys with My Mother by Halina Rubin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
A baby is born in Warsaw in 1939. Stalin has signed a pact of nonaggression with Hitler, marking the beginnings of the Second World War. As the city is attacked, Ola, a young nurse, escapes with her husband-to-be and their newborn baby to a small town in Soviet territory just across the border. Two year ...Show more
Reckoning - A Memoir (HB) by Magda Szubanski
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia's most beloved performers, tells her story. In this extraordinary memoir, Magda describes her journey of self-discovery from a suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father ...Show more
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continue ...Show more
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they're the birdwatchers' dark grail.' As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falcon ...Show more
My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me by Boris Mihailovic
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Whether you're into dirt bikes, road bikes, ride a Yamaha, scooter or Laverda: if you've ever experienced the primal rush of riding a motor bike, the pain of crashing, the suffering of healing and the epiphanies of speed, then this book is for you. My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me is about frien ...Show more
Redeemed: Stumbling Toward God, Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding by Heather King
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
After decades of living on the edge, Heather King settled into sobriety, marriage, and a financially lucrative but unfulfilling career as an upwardly mobile lawyer. As someone who had reached middle age "never believing in much of anything,"she found herself in the last place she thought she'd end up: t ...Show more
The Shock of Recognition: The Books and Music That Have Inspired Me by Barry Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'How much time do I have left? A hundred days? A thousand? If I knew I was going to die next week but could be taken to see The Marriage of Figaro tonight, would I go? Absolutely.'In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, ...Show more
At the Altar of the Road Gods: Stories of Motorcycles and Other Drugs by Boris Mihailovic
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Boris has more fun on two wheels than should be legally possible.' - Richard Fidler, ABC His mother may not know it but Boris Mihailovic has lived a fast, furious, often politicially incorrect life chasing the epiphanies of speed (the sensation not the drug). For Boris, motorbike riding was the rite of ...Show more