Mackie and Jack: They married in wartime and said goodbye by Jan William Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A true and moving story of love, war, courage and indomitable spirit… One day the tall, gaunt father came to the house with the new wife and called the puzzled seven-year-old to him. She had never seen him before… ‘I am your father and you will call me Father, and this is your new mother and you will ca ...Show more
The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The unforgettable memoir that redefines ‘she’ll be right’. What’s it like to grow up in an Aussie family that has a man of every flavour? A bank robber, an infamous sports umpire, several different breeds of drug addict (collect the whole set!), a roster of crafty swindlers, an attempted murderer and th ...Show more
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage classics
Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, this memoir is about the authors childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. It also depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distan ...Show more
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to each role co ...Show more
At War with My Father: Fred Howe: Prisoner of War by Lynette Ramsay Silver
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It is June 2008, and I am on a hillside overlooking the NSW country town of Boorowa. It is a long time since I felt any need to visit the cemetery, but today I have come to talk to my father. My research on the notorious Burma-Thai railway, where he was a POW, has brought me to this moment. For the past ...Show more
Hook, Line and Sinner by Tom Nash
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fuelled by Tom 'Hookie' Nash's dark humour and razor-sharp wit, Hook, Line & Sinner is an 'anti-inspirational' take on disability, a wild ride of survival and a case study in redefining life's limitations on your own terms. Tom 'Hookie' Nash has spent his adult life mesmerising audiences around the ...Show more
The Map of William by Michael Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Western Australia, 1909. William Watson's beloved father is set on an expedition to the north-west to map water sources in the Pilbara. Invited along, fifteen-year-old William embarks on the outback journey of a lifetime.At sea and on land, William will forge lasting friendships with his fellow travelle ...Show more
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky: An extraordinary true story of resilience, courage, hope and finding lightness after the heaviest of landings by Emma Carey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An extraordinary true story of resilience, courage, hope and finding lightness after the heaviest of landings From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundreds of thousands online to live life to the fullest and remind us that if we can, we must. Ther ...Show more
Finding Chika: A heart-breaking and hopeful story about family, adversity and unconditional love by Mitch Albom
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of Memoir From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch A ...Show more
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair. Getting Lost is the diary kept by ...Show more
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir ... and it may just save lives' Daily Mail'Funny, fascinating, compelling ... also a wonderful read for fans of Friends' The TimesThe beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funn ...Show more
Weatherboard and Iron - Politics, the bush and me by Barnaby Joyce
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Barnaby Joyce is one of Australia's most recognisable and divisive politicians of the modern era. A former Leader of the Australian National Party,and the Deputy Prime Minister between 2016 and 2018, Joyce's world came crashing down around himin spectacular fashion this year when it was revealedthat he ...Show more