Letters From Isobel Hen House CEO by Anne Stuckey
$19.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Isobel, a proud Australorp, is at the top of the Hen House ladder. As CEO, she started with 50, and now manages around 3000 'girls', the wilful free-range hens who live at Berrima Ridge, a 100-acre farm in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father's laborato ...Show more
A DOG'S LIFE - AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A STRAY by MARTIN ANNE
$17.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A Dog's Life joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content Squirrel and her brother Bone begin their lives in a toolshed behind someone's summer house. Their mother nurtures them and teaches them the many skills they will need to su ...Show more
The Grass Was Always Browner by Sacha Jones
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The Grass Was Always Browner is a memoir of growing up and away from an eccentric family in a regular Sydney suburban backyard, travelling all the way to the Outback and on to London wearing pink pointe ballet shoes. Girls born in suburban Sydney in the 70s were rarely called Sacha. Particularly girls d ...Show more
Auctioneer: A Memoir of Great Art, Legendary Collectors and Record-Breaking Auctions by Simon de Pury
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Simon de Pury is the art world's ultimate insider. His roles have included curator of the world-famous Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Chairman of Sotheby's Europe, and founder and owner of Sotheby's rival Phillips de Pury. His exuberant style, showmanship and iconoclasm in a highly conservative professi ...Show more
Scattered Pearls by Sohila Zanjani
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From Tehran to Melbourne, a powerful memoir of survival. Scattered Pearls opens in pre-revolutionary Iran, where Sohila Zanjani grew up under the threat of violence, intimidation and control at the hands of her father. Resolving never to tread in the footsteps of her mother and her grandmother, both sur ...Show more
Different Kind of Daughter: My Double Life Disguised as a Boy to Defy the Taliban by Maria Toorpakai Wazir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Armed with a squash racket and enormous will, Maria Toorpakai has risen from the turmoil of tribal life in Pakistan to become not only a world-class athlete, but a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfilment and genuine personhood' ...Show more
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. ...Show more
My Grandmother: A Memoir by CETIN Fethiye
$23.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Fethiye Cetin was growing up in the small Turkish town of Maden, she knew her grandmother as a happy and universally respected Muslim housewife. It would be decades before her grandmother told her the truth: that she was by birth a Christian and an Armenian, that her name was not Seher but Heranush ...Show more
Hell to Happiness: A Concentration Camp Childhood to a Life of Abundance by Patricia Dennis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Living on Borrowed time will sharpen your appreciation for life. This book is a true story full of passion, hope and inspiration. International author Patricia Dennis shares what it was like to spend three and a half years growing up in a Japanese Concentration Camp in the Philippines. Having miraculous ...Show more
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley B. Sullenberger III; Jeffrey Zaslow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger--the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving the lives of ...Show more