A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
'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
Amongst the Grapevines by Minney Richani (Illustrator, Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Amongst The Grapevines is a mixed form memoir of poetry, prose and digital illustrations. This multifaceted collection explores a deep and personal connection to the Syrian conflict, those afflicted by it and the sense of misplaced identity it has caused. Amongst The Grapevines uncovers both the beauty ...Show more
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon an ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
$35.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
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
How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
How do you write a memoir when you have lost your memories? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues. I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did ...Show more
Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
$49.95 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two rickety biplanes to the age of the jumbo jets. One of Australia's celebrated Light Horsemen at Gallipoli, Fysh went on to ...Show more
If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed by Margaret Tucker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a landmark publication. In that first edition, her tone and draft content were significantly al ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
$16.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and w ...Show more
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
$26.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Reading Level: very good
As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. So much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had Kiedis's songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoiri ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by Dame Judi Dench
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before. Internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent is a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare. 'A MAGICAL LOVE LETTER ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
The Elves of Lily Hill Farm - A Partnership with Nature by Penny L. Kelly
$47.00 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography