The Women's Doc: True Stories from My Five Decades Delivering Babies and Making History by Caroline de Costa
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Funny and poignant stories from the labour ward and from the frontline of campaigns for women's reproductive rights, from Australia's best known obstetrician. 'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology ...Show more
Watermarks: Life, Death and Swimming by Lenka Janiurek
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Lenka Janiurek's memoir discusses the men who defined her life, and the challenges of identity, belonging and family. Lenka Janiurek's story really begins after the death of her mother when she was a small child, and speaks of the men who came to define her life; she is the daughter of a Polish immigran ...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
Between Me and Myself: A Memoir of Murder, Desire and the Struggle to Be Free by Sandra Willson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On 29 April 1959, Sandra Willson, a twenty-year-old trainee psychiatric nurse from Paddington, devastated by the break-up of her relationship with her female lover, left her home and hailed a taxi. Asking the driver to take her to a remote location on the coast near Cronulla, she waited until he had sto ...Show more
Everything Harder Than Everyone Else: Why Some of Us Push Our Bodies to the Extreme by Jenny Valentish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
It's human nature to test our limits. But what happens when this comes to define you?When Jenny Valentish wrote a memoir about addiction in 2017, she noticed the people who treated drug-taking like an Olympic sport would often hurl themselves into a pursuit such as marathon running upon giving up. What ...Show more
The School of Restoration: The Story of One Ugandan Woman Who Has Given Hope to Hundreds of Female Survivors of War and Violence by Alice Achan; Philippa Tyndale
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The powerful and uplifting story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female victims of war and violence. Alice Achan was just thirteen when the Lord's Resistance Army first terrorised her village in northern Uganda in 1987. She spent five years on the run from the brutal LRA, and then ...Show more
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C Ford
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honour and overcome our origins.
The Accidental Teacher by Tim Heath
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Funny, poignant, charming and deeply sad at times, this is a beautifully written story of a life in teaching. Tim Heath taught for about 40 years, mostly in New Zealand but also in Samoa, in small country schools, in big city schools, at the Correspondence School, in primary schools and secondary school ...Show more
The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy #3) by Gerald Durrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the ...Show more
Four Seasons in Rome - On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome...'Four Seasons in Rome' charts the repercussions of that day, describing Doerr's varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world, a ...Show more
A Life on the Line (MICA Flight Paramedic) by DARREN. HODGE
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Darren Hodge was a kid, a big, white, sleek ambulance squatted like a lion in the driveway next door, always ready to go, and sometimes it did, roaring down the street. Today, he is a MICA Flight Paramedic with decades of varied experience in 'a life of extremes' in an Australian ambulance service. ...Show more
Beirut 2020 - The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal by Charif Majdalani; Ruth Diver (Translator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital [...] has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani is a survivor who still finds in himself the elegance to smile and hope' Amin Maalouf, Prix Goncourt winner 'It is rare to capture the moment when it first occurs, ...Show more