The Stranger Artist: Life at the Edge of Kimberley Painting by Quentin Sprague
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
At a hinge-point in his life, artist and ex-gallerist Tony Oliver travelled to the East Kimberley, where he plunged into the crosscurrents and eddies of the Aboriginal art world. He would stay for almost a decade, working alongside a group of senior Gija artists, including acclaimed figures Paddy Bedfor ...Show more
Bush School by Peter O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond. There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang e ...Show more
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina--a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"--has been home to generations of L ...Show more
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly ...Show more
Dying: A Memoir (PB) by Cory Taylor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Cory Taylor wrote this remarkable book in the space of a few weeks before her death from cancer in July 2016. In a tremendous creative surge, as her body weakened, she described the experience of knowing she would soon die. Her powerful and beautifully written book is a clear-eyed account of the tangle ...Show more
This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A sequel to the award-winning "Touching the Void", in which Simpson described a fall in the Himalayas which crippled and almost broke him. This is a memoir of the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown.
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more
Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs., think-tanks and Nordic secretaries by Tompkin William
$79.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Bill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager, when the Navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was personally present at the "Battle of L.A." when a thousand rounds of a ...Show more
Beyond Band of Brothers : The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On D-Day, Dick Winters took off with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and prepared to parachute into German-held north France. Ground troops landing on Utah beach were relying on Easy Company to secure one of the causeways that were vital if the troops were to get off the beaches and reach the solid gr ...Show more
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Seventeen Brushes with Death | Reading Level: very good
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extr ...Show more
Ciao Bella! Six Take Italy by Kate Langbroek
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Kate Langbroek’s deliciously funny, irreverent and inspiring memoir about moving to Bologna with her family to seek la dolce vita is a glorious reminder of what we can learn from the Italians about living life to the full – and what really matters when the world goes to hell in a handbasket. ‘I wasn’t ...Show more
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Canons | Reading Level: good-very good
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, histo ...Show more