Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change by Helen Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo, a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped guide the way. It was 1966 and the times they were a-changing, even in the provincial New Zealand coastal town of New Plymo ...Show more
Model Minority Gone Rogue: How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script by Qin Qin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
"We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Lisa Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don't rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority. But doing everything right? It made her lost and miserable. So she decided to take a spectacular ri ...Show more
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Read the book that inspired upcoming major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - the GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story ...Show more
Power and Obsession: Invasion, betrayal and a desperate search for justice by Catherine McCullagh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
She eyed him nervously, this man who could end her life without a second thought. She had been complacent, lulled into forgetting the immense power he wielded over her ... London, 1941, and in the battered capital of occupied Britain, Emilia Shaw works as a translator for ruthless SS General Oskar Voigt ...Show more
Strap Yourself In: A memoir of motherhood, dancefloors and all the mayhem in between by Amy Gerard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
A laugh-out-loud, deeply relatable memoir challenging our unrealistic expectations of motherhood and life, from the Instagram sensation and host of Beyond the Likespodcast In a world of highly curated Instagram pages and unrealistic expectations of motherhood, Amy Gerard is a gust of fresh air. She does ...Show more
The Long Goodbye: Lessons on humanity from the grips of Alzheimer's by Keri Kitay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
A powerful mix of memoir and hard-earned knowledge, in The Long Goodbye, Keri Kitay charts her family's poignant and devastating journey after their mother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. When Keri Kitay's mother, Terry, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, nothing cou ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...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
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Reading Level: very good
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundsta ...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
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