Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
Bibliomaniac by Robin Ince
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this warm and witty celebration of the written word, the popular comedian and presenter takes the reader on a journey across Britain as he explores his lifelong love of books and bookshops. Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Bri ...Show more
Circling the Wagons - When Hiding a Family Secret, Becomes More Important Than a Loved One by Deborah Aldrick
$35.00 AUD
$45.00 (22% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
Circling the Wagons is a firsthand account of an adult survivors struggles to reclaim her life after dealing with childhood sexual abuse, hidden within a family environment. This book is written for other survivors or family/friends of survivors as a guide. To get a true, in-depth, raw and honest look ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
Second Chance: The heartwarming true story of a neglected horse who became a Mounted Police hero by Diana Thurgood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A life-affirming true story of kindness, courage and one horse's extraordinary journey from a derelict paddock to the esteemed stables of the Mounted Police. On a hot summer's day in Northern New South Wales, Mounted Police officer Tiffany spotted an advertisement for a horse in the local paper - a Cly ...Show more
What Does it Feel Like Being Born? by Jodie Miller
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
CELEBRATING 2020: THE YEAR OF THE NURSE AND MIDWIFE It's 1999 and Jodie doesn't want children. When her husband threatens, baby or bust, she resists. But 30 is approaching, and her eggs aren't getting younger. By chance, Jodie gets access to the only public Birth Centre in South East Queensland; one o ...Show more
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilari ...Show more
Home to Biloela: The Story of the Tamil Family that Captured Our Hearts by Priya Nadesalingam, Rebekah Holt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The dramatic inside story of the Tamil refugee family which became a cause clbre all around Australia, and the epic fight by a small rural community to set them free. It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumping on the front door signalled the start of a four-year odyssey that would ca ...Show more
Fighting Fate by Justin Yerbury
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Pursued by 'the beast' of motor neurone disease, groundbreaking scientist Justin Yerbury wrote this extraordinary memoir entirely with eye movements. It is the sharpest possible lens on the value of life and hope. Justin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease ...Show more
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis ...Show more
Remainders of the Day - More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the ant ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...Show more