The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free' The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert's fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Gu ...Show more
Spinifex Baby Finch Memoir Prize Winner 2014 by Karen Harrland
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Building on the success of Green Vanilla Tea comes the next winner of the annual Finch Memoir Prize. Finch Publishing is proud to support Australian writers through an annual prize for an unpublished memoir manuscript. The prize is $10,000 and publication. The 2014 title will be launched (with simultane ...Show more
My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year 2023 by Barbra Streisand
$75.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) an ...Show more
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, 3rd Edition: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A renowned psychiatrist reveals how trauma affects children--and outlines the path to recovery How does trauma affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and sh ...Show more
The Care Factor: A Pandemic Nurse's Story by Ailsa Wild
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The Care Factor tells the story of one incredible nurse - one among many - who chose to meet an unprecedented global health crisis on the frontline. Simone Sheridan has one of the most sought-after skills today. As a nurse, her skill is to care. When Covid-19 began to spread across the world in 2020, Si ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the ne ...Show more
Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
On a dark night in Provence in December 1888 Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is an act that has come to define him. Yet for more than a century biographers and historians seeking definitive facts about what happened that night have been left with more questions than answers. In Van Gogh's Ear Berna ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more
Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra by Anne Aly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of an irrespressible woman 'Anne Aly's ... influence will be felt for years to come ... It sinks in how significant she may be to public life.' - The Good Weekend In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and th ...Show more
Do Oysters Get Bored? : A Curious Life by Rozanna Lilley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A baby cries; a mother exits, leaving her family behind; a child finally begins to talk; a father stops breathing. Rozanna Lilley is a social anthropologist, autism researcher, and Oscar's mum. Oscar is on the autism spectrum, which means he has a particular way of being in the world and understanding t ...Show more
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness'It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of T ...Show more
An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
With a heartfelt introduction from Jane Campion. Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections. Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor ...Show more