Kerry O'Brien: A Memoir by Kerry O'Brien
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Walkley award winning ABC journalist, Kerry O'Brien, reflects on social and political upheavals he has witnessed and the personalities who have made history. Born the day after the first American occupying troops landed near Tokyo in August 1945, Kerry O'Brien's life has spanned the post-war era throug ...Show more
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Essays by Samantha Irby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexu ...Show more
Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: 3
Caro Llewellyn's family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her. Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysi ...Show more
Questions I Am Asked about the Holocaust by Hedi Fried; Alice Olsson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.' Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced ...Show more
Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss by Rachel Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life, and with the love of life. It brought me often to laughter and - several times - to tears' Robert MacfarlaneFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deepl ...Show more
Enid: The scandalous life of a glamorous Australian who dazzled the world by Robert Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From the bestselling author of Sheila comes the story of an Australian socialite who fascinated the world. Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. The girl from Strathfield in Sydney stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and dared ...Show more
Pretty Girls by Lisa Portolan; Samantha McDonald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Pretty Girls is a visceral narrative of violence, personal tragedy and female resilience set against the backdrop of one of Australia's most politically charged communities, Redfern, where sinister racial tensions underpin everything. Evie is a woman in her mid-thirties who returns to her hometown to me ...Show more
The Smallest Lights in the Universe by Sara Seager
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected discovery of new love. Sara Seager has made it her life's work ...Show more
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A memoir with a message - about growing up in care and finding hope, determination and creativity - from British poet and national treasure Lemn Sissay.
Eat A Peach - A Memoir by David Chang; Gabe Ulla
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
'David Chang writes about a chef's life in a way that feels completely fresh. The recipes, including those from the ginger-scallion noodles and roasted pork belly served at Noodle Bar, are almost perks; this would be a great read even without them.' The New York Times In 2004, David Chang opened a noodl ...Show more
Rolling with the Punchlines by Urzila Carlson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Updated with new chapters and written with her trademark deadpan humour, Urzila's memoir is full of great stories. Urzila's accidental beginning in stand-up has led to an incredibly successful career in comedy, with regular gigs on Channel 10's Have you Been Paying Attention? in Australia, and 7 Day ...Show more
Stories of Hope - Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more