Two Generations by Anne Connor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Based on a true story, Two Generations explores the lived familial impact of secrets, suffering, forgiveness, hope and redemption. Lae, New Guinea 1943. Jock Connor is part of a regiment sent to set up a base camp at the Butibum River. During an Inspection of Arms, Jock's Owen sub-machine gun accident ...Show more
MI5 and Me - A Coronet Among the Spooks by Charlotte Bingham
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author comes a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carré's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5. It seems to me now that everyone who came to our house in those days was a spy. . . When Ch ...Show more
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was ...Show more
A Mother's Choice by Elle Halliwell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In May 2016 Elle Halliwell, the young, dynamic and hugely popular Daily Telegraph Fashion and Entertainment Reporter, was diagnosed with leukaemia. A few days later, just as she was telling friends and family about the grim diagnosis, she found out she was four weeks pregnant. She was faced with an impo ...Show more
Am I Doing This Right? by Tanya Hennessy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Tanya Hennessy can't tell the time on an analogue clock, was once employed as a stilt-walker and still sleeps with Morris, her childhood teddy bear, so naturally, she is the most qualified person to write a guidebook for growing up. Am I Doing This Right? is an encyclopedia of life lessons that Tany ...Show more
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
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
$21.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no l ...Show more
My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Co ...Show more
Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail by Wil Patterson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Wil Patterson was your everyday working husband and father, trying to keep up with the latest car, house and toys for his family. Always one to make light of things, he nevertheless became increasingly desperate about how he was going to pay his bills. One day while at work at his insurance job, he came ...Show more
Woman in the Wilderness by Miriam Lancewood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
An inspirational story of adventure and bravery, from a young woman living a primitive, nomadic life in the wilds of the South Island of New Zealand.
Kerry O'Brien: A Memoir by Kerry O'Brien
$44.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Walkley award winning ABC journalist, Kerry O'Brien, reflects on social and political upheavals he has witnessed and the personalities who have made history. Born the day after the first American occupying troops landed near Tokyo in August 1945, Kerry O'Brien's life has spanned the post-war era throug ...Show more
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement by Albert Woodfox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement - in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours aday, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana - all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endur ...Show more