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
Between You & Me - Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The most irreverent and enjoyable book on language since Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding the New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us, in a charming language book a ...Show more
Everything Is Going To Be K.O.: An Illustrated Memoir Of Living With Specific Learning Difficulties by Kaiya Stone
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties. A hilarious and heartfelt illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties. In Everything is Going to be K.O. , Kaiya Stone writes about her experiences of living with specific learning difficulties: from struggling at ...Show more
The Voyeur's Motel by Gay Talese
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. 'Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,' the letter began, 'I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its ...Show more
Only: A Singular Memoir by Caroline Baum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far between. Mostly, there was only me...Only is a painfully honest and entertaining story of an unconventional c ...Show more
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
WINNER OF THE 2015 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE 2015 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION A powerful, bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America's broken system of justic ...Show more
Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all for reading. Or so he kept telling himself. But, no matter how ...Show more
An American in Oz by Sara James
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
No one thought Sara James, a 30 Rock habitue and Manhattanite through and through, would move to Australia after a long and successful fast-track career reporting from around the globe. But move she did, when her Australian husband Andrew wanted to come home, in a journey that sees her morph from a big- ...Show more
Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir by Anne Summers
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
"I was born into a world that expected very little of women like me. We were meant to tread lightly on the earth, influencing events through our husbands and children, if at all. We were meant to fade into invisibility as we aged. I defied all of these expectations and so have millions of women like me. ...Show more
A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis by Louise Curtis
$18.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis.Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the ...Show more
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the story of an unwanted Chinese daughter, growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic drama is played against the extraordinary political ...Show more