Thicker than Water by Kerry Washington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the deeply moving journey of her life so far, and the bravely intimate story of discovering her truth.While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message that would send ...Show more
Unheard Voices : Finding Language and Belonging in the Deaf and Hearing Worlds by Dawn Mauldon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A daughter's telling of finding language and belonging in the Deaf and hearing worlds.In this poignant and powerful memoir, the author tells the story of both her mother's childhood - growing up deaf in the 1920s in rural Victoria - and her own childhood with Deaf parents. Through intimate and evocative ...Show more
Lies My Mirror Told Me: A Frank, Funny, Fearless Memoir by Wendy Harmer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Entertainer and national treasure Wendy Harmer tells all in her frank, fearless and funny memoir, Lies My Mirror Told Me. 'I've always believed where there's a chance, you have to take it . . . or invent it.' Wendy Harmer has had an extraordinary life. From being born with a severe facial deformity, t ...Show more
Beeswax and Tall Tales: Memories of an Aussie Antique Dealer by Jane Crowley, Athol Salter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As an antique dealer, Athol Salter has peddled in other people's stories for over sixty years. From humble beginnings in his Junque Shop in country New South Wales in the 1960s to Dirty Janes in the Southern Highlands, he has rummaged through ramshackle huts, dealt with dubious property from deceased es ...Show more
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller o ...Show more
Dissolve by Nikki Gemmell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space for herself and found her voice. Decades later she has written a deeply persona ...Show more
My Story by Schapelle Corby; Kathryn Bonella (As told to)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The no. 1 bestselling memoir, co-written by Schapelle Corby and Kathryn Bonella, the author of Hotel Kerobokan and Snowing in Bali.Schapelle's story is like no other - a young woman experiencing the unimaginable, and enduring the unendurable with courage, strength and humour.It was meant to be a two-wee ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more
Heartsick: Three stories about love and loss, and what happens in between by Jessie Stephens
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
When Jessie Stephens went through a difficult breakup, she started to look for books or stories that would reflect her experience and perhaps give her some hope for the future. There were plenty of guide books in the '101 tips to cure a broken heart' vein, but what Jessie wanted were stories. She wanted ...Show more
The Crane Wife - A Memoir in Essays by C J Hauser
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funn ...Show more