Before I Forget by Geoffrey Blainey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a 'Living Treasure', in Before I Forget Geoffrey Blainey reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent in rural Victoria, from Terang to Leongatha ...Show more
Small Steps: A Physio in Ethiopia by Julie Sprigg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This heartfelt memoir and travel story is about an idealistic young woman forced to confront the limitations of how much difference she can make in a country rich in culture but stark in its deprivations. Julie Sprigg spent three years in Ethiopia, volunteering at a convent clinic and then teaching the ...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
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
A Question of Colour: my journey to belonging by Patricia Lees
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'These two children have been in our Home in Townsville for more than two years, and in view of their very dark colouring, have not been assimilated into the white race. Every effort has been made to place them in a foster home without success because of their colour.' Queensland State Children's Depart ...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
My Sixty Years on the Plains - Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Long before the American Revolution, fur trappers were traveling thousands of miles into the remote wilderness in their quest for beaver pelts, the frontier's most valuable commodity. These hardened, unsettled men were at the forefront of the Western expansion, hunting amid the Central Rockies by the 18 ...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
Son of the Brush: A memoir by Tim Olsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
Experiments on Reality by Tim Robinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'The Proust & Ruskin of modern place-writing, deep-mapper of Irish landscapes, visionary thinker, and human of exceptional intellectual generosity & kindness. He was an immense inspiration to & encourager of me & my work' Robert Macfarlane Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fic ...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
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