Mood. A memoir of love, identity & mental health by Roz Bellamy
$34.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Mood is a memoir that perfectly suits our times, and our collective journey to understand how we are shaped by our identities. It is a testament to hard-won growth through self-knowledge. Roz Bellamy is a first-generation Jewish Australian who identifies as non-binary. They met their wife, Rachel, as ...Show more
Wild - A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. 'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long ...Show more
Line in the Sand by Dean Yates
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter ...Show more
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Raw and radical, unfamiliar and beguiling - a journey through Britain's breathtaking flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories contained in those landscapes. Noreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their stark beauty, their formidable calm, their refusal to cooper ...Show more
New Wave Vision by Hayden Cox
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Hayden Cox started his surfboard brand Haydenshapes at the age of 15 while still at school, taking on a fickle industry where few succeed beyond local reach. Today he is an award winning designer and entrepreneur who took his passion, young ideas and vision for doing things differently, and created a be ...Show more
No Job for a Woman by Sallyanne Atkinson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
"Sallyanne Atkinson was the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the first female senior trade commissioner to Paris and has been a leader in business and corporate life for over four decades. No Job for a Woman takes us from her wartime childhood in Sri Lanka through her early career as a journalist an ...Show more
Hooked: The Secrets of a High Class Call Girl by Samantha X
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Samantha X is not your typical hooker. She's the wrong side of 35, has two kids and counts dining at her local pizzeria as a wild night out. Career-wise, Samantha had it all: writing for Australia's top-selling women's magazines, appearing as a media expert on television and travelling the world for the ...Show more
Cows in Trees: A Warm and Witty Memoir of a Vet's Life by Julian Earl
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Highly qualified veterinary surgeon Julian Earl, entertains the reader with a few of his favourite tales and events fromhis long career not to mention the most bizarre of all - attending to a cow stuck in a tree! Chapters are littered with anecdotes, hilarious memories, and veterinary stories all told i ...Show more
Adventures of a Wonky Eyed Boy by Jason Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
‘“Mrs.Byrne, you’ve a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy, with a wonky eye.” My mother wept for all the wrong reasons as she was handed me by the midwife. She could have slept with a platypus and still I would have come out better than this.’ So begins Jason Byrne’s Memoir. It was a time wh ...Show more
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"He s one of America s most recognisable and acclaimed actors a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing during his 11 years on M*A*S*H. Now he has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest perfor ...Show more
Goodbye Pet, and See You in Heaven: A Memoir of Animals, Love and Loss by Bel Mooney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When her beloved small dog died, Bel Mooney was astonished at the depth of her ongoing sorrow. Sharing her loss online and in a newspaper article brought a deluge of responses, spurring Bel to explore these feelings further. Why do humans mourn pets? Can animals themselves grieve - and do they have soul ...Show more
Telling Tales by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"To be brought up in Leeds in the forties was to learn early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere." In this delightful collection of reminiscences, Alan Bennett recalls his early years in a sequence of tales that are funny, touching and written in his unique ...Show more