Not Right in the Head: How One Family Laughed Their Way Through Alzheimer's by Michelle Wyatt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A light-hearted, heart-warming account of how one family faced Alzheimer's and how the almost comical events within the secure walls of the nursing home made them realize that humor was the only way through. Michelle Wyatt's mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer's like he ...Show more
Florence Foster Jenkins by Nicholas Martin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing.' Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy Pennsylvanian ...Show more
Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
$22.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her first steps towards a life in music, from childhood piano lessons with a local jazz muso to international success as a concert pianist. As she discovers passion and ambition, and confronts doubt and disappointment, she learns about much more than t ...Show more
Renia's Diary: A Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Renia Spiegel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
July 15, 1942, Wednesday Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I'm separated from the world. Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia i ...Show more
Beneath the Surface by Libby Trickett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The brave and inspiring memoir of one of Australian Swimming's Golden Girls, whose extraordinary achievements masked her private battles with anxiety and depression.
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by ...Show more
Money for Something: Sex Work. Drugs. Life. Need. by Mia Walsch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A scramble through drug addiction, mental illness and the Sydney sex industry in the early millennium. It's easy to talk to these women, tell them my deepest secrets. Look where we are. What else do we have to hide? When nineteen-year-old Mia is fired from her job at an insurance company, she makes the ...Show more
Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women's Stories Throughout History by Katerina Bryant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Katerina Bryant suddenly began experiencing chronic seizures, she was plunged into a foreign world of doctors and psychiatrists, who understood her condition as little as she did. Reacting the only way she knew how, she immersed herself in books, reading her way through her own complicated diagnosi ...Show more
I'm Staying at Richard's: Raising the Exceptional Son I Never Expected by Bernadette Agius
$26.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This inspiring, heartfelt, and powerful memoir by a mother of a child with Down syndrome explores the incredible blessings and challenges of raising a child with disabilities. When Bernadette Agius--an ambitious career-focused woman--became pregnant, she imagined her unborn child attending the best ...Show more
The Boy Who Felt Too Much by Lorenz Wagner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Henry Markram is the Elon Musk of neuroscience, the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain. He has set the goal of decoding all disturbances of the mind within a generation. This quest is personal for him. The driving force behind his grand ambition ...Show more
Gods and Demons by Deborah Cassrels; Deborah Cassrels
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Behind the tourist veneer of Bali and greater Indonesia: a foreign correspondent's memoirA year after the 2005 Bali bomb atrocities, journalist Deborah Cassrels found herself on an odyssey to the Indonesian resort island grappling with her own existential crisis. Instead, she catapulted into a posting a ...Show more
Settling Day by Kate Howarth
$32.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Following on from her award-winning memoir Ten Hail Marys, Kate Howarth's extraordinary life continues in Settling Day. Thrust out of her son's life while he is still a toddler, teenaged Kate has to rely on her wits and courage to start life anew. Filled with remorse and an unwavering determination to b ...Show more