The Good Fight by Wayne Swan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
A very personal account of an extraordinary period in Australian politics. Despite the divisions within the Labor Party as the Rudd government fell into disunity and as Julia Gillard was undermined by disloyalty from within, Wayne Swan steered the Australian economy through a time of unprecedented inter ...Show more
Forensic Investigator: True Stories from the Life of a Country Crime Scene Cop by Esther McKay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Forensic investigator Geoff Bernasconi had always been passionate about his job as a policeman in rural New South Wales, and went the extra mile, both for victims of crime and for their families. But one night in 1984, he was called to investigate the scene of a horrific car accident in which an entire ...Show more
A Fifty-Year Silence Love, War and a Ruined House in France by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
After surviving World War II by escaping the Nazi occupation, Miranda Richmond Mouillot's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the south of France. Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking the typewriter and their chi ...Show more
Anger is an Energy - My Life Uncensored by John Lydon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
John Lydon has secured prime position as one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols - the world's most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid-1970s with singles such as 'Anarchy in the UK' and 'God Save the Queen'. ...Show more
The Bletchley Girls: War, Secrecy, Love and Loss. The Women of Bletchley Park Tell Their Story by Tessa Dunlop
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The woman of Bletchley Park have a unique story to tell. Although critical to the success of the project to break the German and Japanese codes in the Second World War, their contribution has been consistently overlooked and undervalued. Through unprecedented access to surviving veterans, this boo revea ...Show more
Still a Pygmy by Isaac Bacirongo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Still a Pygmy is a story of love, pride and prejudice that traces the journey of BaTembo Pygmy Isaac Bacirongo from the forests of Central Africa, through the brutality of dictatorship and war, to arrival and settlement in Australia's melting pot. Isaac's inimitable style and voice draw readers into the ...Show more
Forged from Silver Dollar by Li Feng
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Li Feng grew up in Mao's communist China with her mother's motto burning in her ears - success demands two things: unconditional sacrifice and absolute mental focus. Finally breaking free of her mother's overbearing clutches and fleeing to Sydney as an adult, Li struggled to make sense of her own lost c ...Show more
The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In the summer of 1990 - two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school - Cathy Rentzenbrink's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out, suffering serious head injuries. He was left in a permanent vegetative state. For the next eight years ...Show more
Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami
$32.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Good Muslim Boy is Osamah Sami’s true depiction of his life as a young Muslim man. From his early life with his family in Iran during the Iran/Iraq war, to their migration to Australia, his tale is in turns comic and tragic, and explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love and marriage, ...Show more
Elvis and Me by Gillian Wills
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A world-weary musician and a broken racehorse rescue each other in this inspirational memoir about second chances. At 56 years of age, Gillian Wills bought her first horse on a whim. Elvis was emaciated, scarred, unruly, saddle-phobic and imbued with attitude. However, she sensed in him the remnants of ...Show more
Big Blue Sky by Peter Garrett
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Peter Garrett's life so far has been deeply felt and fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, fierce intelligence and a questing and creative spirit, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives...From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney ...Show more
Skimpy: Outrageous True Tales of Crocodiles, Snakes and Pulling Beers in the Outback by Kellie Arrowsmith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Kellie Arrowsmith was a country girl whose idea of a hairdo was tying a ponytail whenever she wanted to go horse riding. But in her early twenties she left her sleepy hometown of Albury on the NSW/Victoria border for the bright lights of the Gold Coast, and soon found herself working in a succession of ...Show more