No Man's Land: The Untold Story of Automation on QF72 by Kevin Sullivan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
nstinctively, I release my pressure on the sidestick. Out of my subconscious, a survival technique from a previous life emerges: Neutralise! I'm not in control so I must neutralise controls. I never imagined I'd use this part of my military experience in a commercial airliner ... On routine flight QF72 ...Show more
The Girls by Chloe Higgins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Winner of the People’s Choice Award in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2020. In 2005, Chloe Higgins was seventeen years old. She and her mother, Rhonda, stayed home so that she could revise for her HSC exams while her two younger sisters, Carlie and Lisa, went skiing with their father. On th ...Show more
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more
Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Touching the Void' is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that ...Show more
Safe Passage by IDA COOK
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Safe Passage brings back into print the life story of Ida Cook, one of Britain's best-loved romance novelists of the 20th century. In this gripping memoir, Cook tells the story of how she and her sister, Louise, transported Jews out of Germany in the years leading up to World War II.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is part memoir, p ...Show more
The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement by Virginia Lloyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
At 32, Virginia Lloyd finally meets the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with, only to discover that he is dying from cancer. When John dies just two years later, as well as handling her own grief, Virginia must battle the chronic rising damp in the house they shared. And so, in her first yea ...Show more
A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a 200-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from Iraq. King, forty-eight, was killed on 14 October, 2006. His son, Jordan, was six months old, and they had spent only two weeks together. A Journal for Jordan ...Show more
That'd Be Right: A Fairly True History of Modern Australia by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Part memoir, part personal history of Australia over the last thirty years, this is a biographical trip told through sport, families and the author's own experiences. He weaves in and around the events that have held a fascination for Australia. Some of these events would be considered momentous, some s ...Show more
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
$19.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
" Frank, enraging and captivating. The New Yorker Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known internationally for her bestselling novels, but as a foreign correspondent Geraldine spent six years covering the Middle East. And when her poised and sophisticated assistant at the Cairo bureau of the Wall ...Show more