My Polar Dream by Jade Hameister
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Fourteen-year-old Jade Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick. In 2016, she skied to the North Pole. In 2017, she completed the Greenland Crossing. In 2018, she arrived at the South Pole. This is the story of an adventurer who never gave up - who set herself incredible challenges beyond ...Show more
Against All Odds: The Inside Account of the Thai Cave Rescue, and the Courageous Australians at the Heart of It by Craig Challen; Richard Harris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
I Miss Mummy: The True Story of a Frightened Young Girl Who is Desperate to Go Home by Cathy Glass
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In her new book, Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother. Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally ill, but d ...Show more
Bad Blood (4th Estate Matchbook Classics) by Lorna Sage
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
One of the most critically acclaimed memoirs ever written. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Lorna sage's outstanding childhood and adol ...Show more
Working by Robert A. CARO
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Robert A. Caro, 'one of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times), is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, whose biographies are widely considered to be masterpieces. In Working he offers a captivating account of his life as a writer, describin ...Show more
Murder on Easey Street: Melbourne's Most Notorious Cold Case by Helen Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
One summer night in January 1977, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were savagely murdered in their house on Easey Street, Collingwood - stabbed multiple times while Suzanne's sixteen-month-old baby slept in the next room. Although police established a list of 130 'persons of interest', the case bec ...Show more
The Joy of High Places by Patti Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
They didn't know it, but Patti Miller and herbrother, Barney, shared something in common -- a passion for the illuminating joy of wild nature -- with all its challenges and dangers. In this extraordinaryand unexpected book, Patti tells the story of her own long-distance walkingover hundreds of kilometre ...Show more
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Sofija Stefanovic was born into a country destined to collapse. With Yugoslavia on the brink of war, her family was torn between the socialist existence they'd always known and the pull of stability on offer in the distant land of Australia. Surrounded by conflict and uncertainty, it's no wonder that So ...Show more
Relentless - The First Person to Solo Kayak the Tasman by Scott Donaldson; Steve Kilgallon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
The story of Scott Donaldson's relentless journey to be the first person to cross the Tasman sea solo in a kayak. Unpredictable and unforgiving, the Tasman Sea is one of the most hostile stretches of water in the world. An Australian adventurer attempted to kayak across in 2007, disappearing without a ...Show more
Gotta Get Theroux This - My life and strange times in television by Louis Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat charact ...Show more
You Left Early : a True Story of Love and Alcohol by Louisa Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Spectacular. I can't stop thinking about it. Louisa Young is a beautiful, beautiful writer' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love This brutal, beautiful memoir from award-winning novelist Louisa Young is a heartbreaking portrayal of love, grief and the merciless grip of addiction. Louisa ...Show more