We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Essays by Samantha Irby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexu ...Show more
Get up Mum by Justin Heazlewood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: Adult
It's 1992 in Burnie, Tasmania. Twelve-year-old Justin Heazlewood just wants to be a normal boy with a normal family. He's excited to finish primary school, listen to Rage with his friends over the holidays and play Yahtzee with Nan and Pop; but he lives alone with his mum and she is crying uncontrollabl ...Show more
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?All Sloane wanted was to be admire ...Show more
A Dangerous Woman - American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator--The Life of Florence Gould by Susan Ronald
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Susan Ronald's A DANGEROUS WOMAN is the revealing biography of Florence Gould, a fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940's Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Be ...Show more
I Will Be Complete by Glen David Gold
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and Chang and Eng From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted memoir about his bizarre upbringing in Californi ...Show more
No Country Woman: A memoir of not belonging by Zoya Patel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I was born in a hospital in Suva, Fiji. I can't recall ever seeing the building on my trips back to the city, first as a child or later as an adult. I imagine it in shades of blue and brown, the plastic waiting room chairs covered in the fine film of moisture that creeps over everything there. It is no ...Show more
A Short History of Falling by Joe Hammond
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places. 'As I get weaker, less a part of this world, or less a part of what I love, less a pa ...Show more
The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology by Mark Boyle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers- the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce. In this honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life without modern technology, Mark Boyle expl ...Show more
Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3
Caro Llewellyn's family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her. Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysi ...Show more
Before I Forget by Geoffrey Blainey
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a 'Living Treasure', in Before I Forget Geoffrey Blainey reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent in rural Victoria, from Terang to Leongatha ...Show more
Tough Customer - Chasing a Better Deal for Battlers by Allan Fels
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Memoirs
Allan Fels has never been one to shy away from a fight, especially when the big end of town is exploiting small businesses or consumers. During his twelve years as head of Australia's competition watchdog, he took on banks, airlines, supermarkets and big telcos to make sure Australians were getting a fa ...Show more
The Kowloon Kid: A Hong Kong Childhood by Phil Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From the author of Travels with My Angst and Any Guru Will Do a vivid, nostalgic, and funny memoir of growing up in Hong Kong in the 1960s.Phil Brown's life begins in small town Australia - Maitland to be precise - but in 1963 his father Ted hankers to return to the Hong Kong of his childhood and to cas ...Show more