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.
Unbowed by Billy Hedderman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I woke to the sight of a hospital ceiling. For that first blissful second, I forgot that I was paralysed.' On 31 December 2014 Billy Hedderman suffered a catastrophic injury to his spinal cord while body-boarding on the Sunshine Coast, paralysing him almost completely from the neck down. When asked if ...Show more
Will by Will Self
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
Will Self is one of Britain's most famous and infamous contemporary writers, a public intellectual known for his sardonic worldview, his logophilia, and his wide-ranging interests, from psychogeography to socialism to hard drugs. His novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and been translated ...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
David Mitchell: Back Story by David Mitchell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has writ ...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
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a sm ...Show more
Yours, for Probably Always - Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 by Janet Somerville
$49.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
As much as any woman in the twentieth century, Martha Gellhorn succeeded in her ambition to 'go everywhere and see everything and sometimes write about it.' It is wonderful to have this compendious new collection of letters from and to her, a few newly discovered. Janet Somerville has carefully set each ...Show more
Hell On The Way To Heaven by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"An Australian mother's love, the power of the Catholic Church and the fight for justice over child sexual abuse. Chrissie and Anthony Foster were like any other young family, raising their three daughters in suburban Melbourne with what they hoped were the right values. Chrissie could not have known th ...Show more
The Lotus Eaters by Emily Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Since childhood, Emily Clements' sense of self had always been shaped by the opinions of others and her need to be liked. When a stand-off with her best friend sees nineteen-year-old Emily stranded in Vietnam, she is alone for the first time and adrift in a new environment. With seemingly nothing to l ...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
Homesick - Why I Live in a Shed by Catrina Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home. *LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* *'You will marvel at the beauty of this book, and rage at the injustice it reveals' George Monbiot* *'Incredibly moving. To find peace and a sense of home after a li ...Show more