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
$39.99 AUD
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
The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir by John Cook; Jon Bauer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In Tasmania, John Cook is known as: 'The Keeper of the Flame'. John's renowned as one of the last of the "kerosene keepers": he spent a good part of his 26-year career in Tasmanian lighthouses tending kerosene, not electrical, lamps. He joined the lighthouse service in 1969, after a spell in the merchan ...Show more
A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets by James Bowen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The uplifting true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets of Covent Garden and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal his life. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway. When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his shelte ...Show more
H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick by Helen Macdonald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to ...Show more
The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The unforgettable memoir that redefines ‘she’ll be right’. What’s it like to grow up in an Aussie family that has a man of every flavour? A bank robber, an infamous sports umpire, several different breeds of drug addict (collect the whole set!), a roster of crafty swindlers, an attempted murderer and th ...Show more
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Do No Harm ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks.With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving t ...Show more
Book of Life by Deborah Conway
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia's most iconic music performers. You think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her scowling and striding and smouldering in her music videos over the years means you know who Deborah Conway is? She figures you ...Show more
Not Like Other Dads by Sean Szeps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A funny, fearlessly frank and inspiring memoir about raising kids when the old rules don't apply.Sean had wanted to be a mum since the age of four, when he fell in love with Mrs Potts, the motherly teapot in Beauty and the Beast. But there was just one problem: he was not, in fact, a woman.When he was s ...Show more
An Unlikely Prisoner: How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar’s Most Notorious Jail by Sean Turnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
How hope became one man's closest companion in his darkest hour. 'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar's terrifying Insei ...Show more