Bolt - Worth Fighting for : Insights and Reflections 2 by Andrew Bolt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Andrew Bolt is Australia's most prominent and controversial commentator. In this second book of columns and reflections, Bolt is again in the front lines of our most urgent political and social debates, from Islam and immigration to the green movement and the rise of the slacktivist. But he also reveals ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
Through the Farm Gate A Country Memoir by Angela Goode
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From a childhood spent yabbying and riding horses on friends' farms where the sun always shone, Angela Goode has always wanted to live on a farm of her own. With the handsome cattleman her friends set her up with, she finds her romantic illusions of country life under challenge. From one large cattle st ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist 'From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. 'Hillbilly Elegy' is a passionate and pers ...Show more
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Ah, Xiaolu, you are so big now!' Then I heard my grandmother speaking behind the woman, 'This is your mother, call her mother!' I stared at the woman, perplexed. Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is six. They are strangers to her. When Xiaolu is born her parents hand her over to ...Show more
Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood-along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again. In Tal ...Show more
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Gloria Steinem--writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader--tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change.ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ...Show more
Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment by Jenny Valentish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way. Her travels around Australia take her to treatment facilities and AA groups. Mining the expertise of leading researchers, she explores the early predictors of addiction, such as chil ...Show more
For a Girl: A True Story of Secrets, Motherhood and Hope by Mary-Rose MacColl
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
I am by nature a private person. Secrets are different from privacy. They are things you are forced to keep to yourself, by family, friends, by your own shame. Secrets like these come to the surface one day and demand an airing. Emerging from an unconventional, boisterously happy childhood, Mary-Rose Ma ...Show more
The Good Girl Stripped Bare by Tracey Spicer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From bogan to boned and beyond - a full-frontal 'femoir' by one of Australia's best-loved journalists 'Will you ever work in television again?' the journalist asks, thrusting a microphone towards me. 'I hope so,' I say before scuttling into a cafe. It's feeding time and I need to express. But questions ...Show more
China Baby Love by Jane Hutcheon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
How one woman turned her life upside down to help those who needed it most - half a world away. In 1997 Linda McCarthy Shum had a stable teaching career and a happy marriage with beloved partner Greg. Living in regional Queensland, Linda was a woman of deep faith with a family of grown children and gran ...Show more