The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living by Mark Boyle
$19.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Imagine living for an entire year without money. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that and here is his extraordinary and compelling story. How do friends and family react? What do you eat? How do you wash? Mark Boyle finds out the hard way and explores the troubling consequences of our obsession w ...Show more
Never Too Late by Amber Portwood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Amber Portwood debuted on MTV s hit reality series 16 Pregnant, no one could have predicted that the teenager from Anderson, Indiana with the dry sense of humor would go on to become one of the most controversial young celebrities in reality TV history. But soon after Amber stepped into the public ...Show more
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (CalArts)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's "The Argonauts" is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language ...Show more
Enemy by Ruth Clare
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I was born into the war still raging inside my father.' Ruth Clare's father came back from the Vietnam War a changed man: a violent, controlling parent and a dominating, aggressive husband. Through a childhood of being constantly on guard, with no one to protect her but herself, Ruth learned to be stro ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
In this record of a life-long love affair with the sea, Tim Winton's prose ripples, shimmers and surges with awe and respect for how the ocean has not only sustained him physically and emotionally but determined the very rhythms of his life.' Fiona Capp, The Age On childhood holidays to the beach the su ...Show more
A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him near ...Show more
Australian Midwives by Paula Heelan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Mira Ser.
Like Beth McCrae's bestselling Outback Midwife, these real-life stories come from Australian midwives working in the outback, where they share their experiences of that most commonplace but miraculous event, the birth of a child. Sweet, funny and sometimes sad, these stories share what it is to be an A ...Show more
I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This by Nadja Spiegelman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"A memoir of mothers and daughters, traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. More than Nadja Spiegelman's famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and more than most mothers, hers:French-born New Yorker art director Franpoise Mouly:exerted a force over reality that was ...Show more
Ask a North Korean : Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation by Daniel Tudor; NK News Staff (Contribution by); Andrei Lankov (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"In his new book, Ask a North Korean, Daniel Tudor--a former Economist journalist and current Korean beer entrepreneur-- wants people to understand the true lives of everyday North Koreans. Using translated essays written by defectors, the book covers topics from politics to pornography." -- The Boston ...Show more
Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories by young writers aged 11-20 years by Eva Sallis (Editor); Sonja Dechian (Editor); Heather Millar (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories is a unique anthology of essays, interviews, and stories written by children and young adults. The stories are the finest of hundreds collected through a nationwide schools competition in 2002. The essays and stories represent many different countries and themes. ...Show more
Bloody Bastard Beautiful by Mocco Wollert
$29.99 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Memoir
The frank and hilarious account of an immigrant girl who follows her German lover to Darwin.Adventurous, love-able and laughable, Mocco captures the heat and vibrance of Darwin and its larrikins, in a decade where the Territory makes its own rules.