Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (HB) by Markus Zusak
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, ...Show more
About a Girl, About a Pearl by Kristin Weidenbach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today
At a time when others only dreamed of growing pearls in Broome’s giant oysters, the pioneering Brown family mastered the secrets to coax the perfect pearls to life. With an Aussie can-do attitude they created Cygnet Bay pearl farm in the 1960s, the oldest Australian-owned and operated pearl farm and pro ...Show more
Me and My Semicolon by Rani Middleton; Nathan Laird (Afterword by)
$25.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body and Spirit
A young mother's account of her journey through bowel cancer. A story of shock, courage, hope and acceptance.
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager: Life in the Outback and a Whole Lot More by Sally Warriner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to Australia’s far nort ...Show more
My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag by Michelle Brasier
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Your future is not guaranteed. And isn't that freeing? If you found out you had less time to live than the average bear, how might you spend it? That's a question comedian Michelle Brasier has been asking herself since her dad died of cancer, then her brother, and she was told there's a high chance she ...Show more
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem ...Show more
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable by Nedd Brockmann
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10 times' to prove that anything is possible when you break past your own barriers. When Nedd Brockmann set out to run the 3,953 kilometres from Cottesloe to Bondi Beach in the fastest k ...Show more
Equal Justice: My Journey As A Woman, A Soldier And A Muslim by Rabia Siddique
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Growing up as a muslim in the monocultural landscape of 1970s suburban Perth, Rabia Siddique knew what it was like to be different. She became a lawyer, moved to the UK and joined the British army as a military lawyer. She served in Iraq and was taken as a hostage by Islamic insurgents as she tried to n ...Show more
100 Nasty Women of History - Brilliant, Badass and Completely Fearless Women Everyone Should Know by Hannah Jewell
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Vital reading' STYLIST 'Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to read and witty, I didn't expect it to be the life changing, important book that I'm discovering it to be' PHILIPPA PERRY * * * * * * These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their times. When you learn about (the very few) women ...Show more
The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: “Mother, get a life!” And so Nancy did, and what a life it has been. In The Art of Power, Pelosi describes for the first time what it takes to make history – not o ...Show more
Not Your Average Nurse: From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary Career by Maggie Groff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
To a young girl the life of a student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it's never easy. So when Maggie Groff defies her parents' wishes and embarks as a student nurse at London's King's College Hospital, she must quickly get to grips with the demands of her chosen career. It's ...Show more
Getting Away With Murder: My unexpected life on page, stage and screen by Lynda La Plante
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The hilarious and moving tell-all memoir from the UK's queen of crime drama. Lynda La Plante has lived an illustrious life and has the stories to prove it. From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RADA, joining peers Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt and Ian McShane; from beginning h ...Show more