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
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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
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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
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
Island Girl to Airline Pilot: A Story of Love, Sacrifice and Taking Flight by Silva Mcleod
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the life story of Silva Mcleod, the first Tongan woman to become an airline pilot. She's still one of only a handful. Told by Silva with frankness and wit, it's quite a story. Silva takes us on a journey of cultural change from her beginnings as a poor island girl to her marriage to an Australia ...Show more
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening What makes them powerful The reason ...Show more
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, as I Walked out One Midsummer Morning, a Moment of War by Laurie Lee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is a beautiful new edition of Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War. 'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.' ...Show more
Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir by Anne Summers
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Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
"I was born into a world that expected very little of women like me. We were meant to tread lightly on the earth, influencing events through our husbands and children, if at all. We were meant to fade into invisibility as we aged. I defied all of these expectations and so have millions of women like me. ...Show more
The School: The Ups and Downs of One Year in the Classroom by Brendan James Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A portrait of one teacher and his class as they journey through the ups and downs of a school year. Brendan James Murray has been a secondary school teacher for more than ten years. In that time he has seen hundreds of kids move through his classes - troubled, brilliant, funny, passionate, struggling: e ...Show more