A Father's Plea by Kamalle Dabboussy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Mariam married her childhood sweetheart in a fairytale Sydney wedding, her father Kamalle dreamed of a beautiful future for his family. When the young couple and their baby daughter went on an overseas holiday, he couldn't have been happier. But a dark secret was lurking on the horizon. They would ...Show more
My Friend Fox by Heidi Everett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The fox sits on the outer waiting for me to discover him because at the moment, I am on the outer too. He watches me. Can you see him? He's clever at hiding. Heidi Everett has long felt the weight of her mental health record, which she has carried along with her from GP clinics to psych wards, social w ...Show more
Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy and Nature by Iain McCalman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
By telling this story, Iain McCalman illuminates much about human-animal relations and the tyranny of gender inequality. He reinstates a twentieth century story of a dedicated amateur primatologist and her adopted Vervet monkey. On an East-African hunting expedition in 1909, Delia Akeley, a forty-year- ...Show more
Scrubbed: A heart surgeon's extraordinary memoir of life, death and everything in between by Nikki Stamp
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki Stamp.
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workah ...Show more
Honey Blood by Kirsty Everett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it does, laughed at the goal she’d set. Aged nine, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent the next two and a half years in treatment and attending the funerals of children she met in the cancer ward. At th ...Show more
The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist's Journey Through Life by Dr Richard Shepherd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death.This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life... How can death tell us about life? Conducting many thou ...Show more
Funkytown by Paul Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Paul Kennedy's Funkytown is the vivid true story of a year in the life of a teenager leaping into manhood. It is 1993: a serial killer is loose on the streets of Frankston, Victoria. The community is paralysed by fear and a state's police force and national media come to find a killer. Meanwhile, sevent ...Show more
Home Truths: A Memoir (HB) by David Williamson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The definitive memoir of David Williamson, author of iconic dramas such as The Removalists, The Club, Don's Party, Emerald City and Travelling North , as well as more than fifty other plays, explores the life of the writer and the true stories and real lives that inspired his works. A powerful force in ...Show more
The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life (without the boring bits) by Paul Hogan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Paul Hogan first appeared on Australia's screens in 1971 as a 'tap-dancing knife thrower' on TV talent show New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a dare, but when the network's switchboard lit up, he was invited back. So popular was he with viewers, ...Show more
From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in po ...Show more
Autopsies for the Armchair Enthusiast by MERYL BROUGHTON
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Intimate interactions with complete strangers, faithful customers and everything in between, form a regular component of the professional work as a country doctor. Within the sanctity of the medical consulting room however, confidentiality is king and privacy rules supreme.For over 35 years Meryl Brough ...Show more