Playing House by Amy Choi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Playing House is a rare pleasure – a warm and humorous memoir in three parts that subtly reveals what it means to create a family. Firstly working and travelling in Europe, then settling in inner city Melbourne and becoming caregivers to Lydia − a troubled teenager who tests the limits of friendship − a ...Show more
Fishing the River of Time by Tony Taylor
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old grandson, Ned. This trip is an opportunity for Tony to return to a landscape that has had a profound effect on his life and his way of thinking, and to share this place with his grandso ...Show more
House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley by Swingler Susan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers - Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one. Why they were kept apart is the subject of this ...Show more
Air Kiss and Tell: Memoirs of a Blow-up Doll by Charlotte Dawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Air Kiss and Tell - Memoirs of a Blow-up Doll is a book that shows us that things that are sparkly, glamorous and smooth on the outside can often be a little dark, awkward and unexpectedly windy on the inside. Sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, Charlotte Dawson recalls many of the more noteworthy st ...Show more
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert MacFarlane (Consultant Neurosurgeon, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
From the acclaimed author of "The Wild Places," an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its wat ...Show more
French Children Don't Throw Food: The hilarious NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER changing parents' lives by Pamela Druckerman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"The book everyone is talking about- how the French manage to raise well-behaved children, and have a life! ho hasn t noticed how well-behaved French children are, compared to our own? How come French babies sleep through the night? Why do French children happily eat what is put in front of them? How ca ...Show more
Whatever's Going to Become of Us?: The Story of One Boy's Struggle from Poverty to Success by Terry Hopley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
A rags-to-riches story of a young man named Terry who began life on a council estate in Dagenham, Essex. His friends in that impoverished neighbourhood included George Carey (who went on to become Lord Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury), Dudley Moore (destined for Hollywood stardom), and the famous Britis ...Show more
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety by Daniel Smith
$36.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Anxiety once paralyzed Daniel Smith over a roast beef sandwich, convincing him that a choice between ketchup and barbeque sauce was as dire as that between life and death. It has caused him to chew his cuticles until they bled, wear sweat pads in his armpits, and confess his sexual problems to his psych ...Show more
Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest
$10.00 AUD
$19.99 (49% off)
Category: Memoir
A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any other.
A History of Silence : A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"A daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today."--The Guardian "Jones' rejection of isolationism and imaginative embrace of so much that the world has to offer make him a literary figure to w ...Show more
On My Knees: A Memoir by Periel Aschenbrand
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On My Knees is Periel Aschenbrand's seriously funny follow-up to her debut memoir The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own. At the beginning of On My Knees, we find Periel chain-smoking her days away on a plastic-covered couch, watching reruns of Law & Order while she squats in her deceased grandmother's ap ...Show more
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival by Judith Tebbutt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; and of how I made a choice to survive by any and ...Show more