A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood by Rosemary Penfold
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon, and grew up in the fields of the English countryside. In this beautiful and evocative memoir, she recounts her life within a loving extended family and small but close-knit community. From early memories of her father bringing home oranges ...Show more
All Over But The Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
$26.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A correspondent for "The New York Times" recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from poverty and ignorance.
A Pig Called Alice - The Story of One Man and His Hog by Paul Heiney
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'To call Alice "just another pig" would be the gravest insult.'Alice the Large Black pig was Paul Heiney's best friend, his confidante and his therapist. This is the story of their tempestuous relationship with all its ups-and-downs, from her arrival as a 'large, black and expensive' Christmas present f ...Show more
Laughter in the Shadows - A CIA Memoir by Stuart Methven
$46.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
This memoir of a CIA operations officer captures the spirit of the early years of the Agency, a period sometimes described as its finest hours. Using the name St. Martin, Stuart Methven served in the CIA from the 1950s through the 1970s. The book opens by describing the author's training in the clandest ...Show more
My Wild Life - Adventures of a Wildlife Photographer by Suzi Eszterhas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As a young girl, Suzi Eszterhas knew she wanted to be a wildlife photographer. But how did she go from snapping pictures of cats in her backyard to taking photos of cheetah cubs in Kenya? In this nonfiction picture-book biography, Eszterhas invites readers to find out what her life is like behind the le ...Show more
A Prayer Before Dawn - My Nightmare in Thailand's Prisons by Billy Moore
$42.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
Now a major motion picture The true story of one man's struggle to survive Muay Thai fights, drugs, and the notorious "Bangkok Hilton" prison in Thailand. The first time Billy Moore walked into his cell packed with seventy prisoners, the floor resembled a mass grave, with intertwined arms and legs, an ...Show more
Memoirs by Robert Lowell
$79.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Of the twenty chapters that make up these Memoirs, seventeen appear here in print for the first time, unearthed by the editors from the Harvard Archive. They include intense depictions of Lowell's mental illness and his efforts to recover, and conclude with reminiscences of other writers - T. S. Eliot, ...Show more
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina--a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"--has been home to generations of L ...Show more
Dress Memory by Lorelei Vashti
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As we grow older, how do we know what to let go of and what to keep?..Lorelei started collecting dresses in her twenties and found that every time she wore one it became more significant to her. From falling in love for the first time to playing in a band, from starting a career to moving overseas, ever ...Show more
No Future Without Forgiveness by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
$27.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the Archbishop's personal account of his experience as head of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission broadening the debate on the merits of reconciliation after conflict with observations, based on visits to, and experience of Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Dachau and Rwanda. ...Show more
Chasing Asylum by Eva Orner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Filmmaker Eva Orner takes us on a personal, gripping and compelling journey to show us how she came to make her documentary about Australia's asylum seeker policies. 'My work as a filmmaker has taken me to some wild, dangerous places ...It's been a crazy, nomadic kind of life, taking me to conflict zone ...Show more