Grief on the Run by Julie Zarifeh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Julie Zarifeh shares the tragic story of losing her 27-year-old son, Sam, in a whitewater rafting accident just sixteen days after her 60-year-old husband, Paul, died of pancreatic cancer. She describes how she and her surviving son and daughter dealt with this double whammy and how she embraced the not ...Show more
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
What's important is our story, our whole story, including those moments when we feel a little vulnerable . . . Michelle Robinson started life sharing a bedroom with her older brother Craig, in their family's upstairs apartment in her great-aunt's house. Her parents, Fraser and Marian, poured their love ...Show more
The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power by Rod Barton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The remarkable true story of an extraordinary Australian intelligence officer, whose work took him across the world ... and into the depths of war and politics. I was no James Bond with a licence to kill, but I worked with the British intelligence services and with, and for, the CIA. I had guns pointed ...Show more
The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with My Grandmother's Ashes by Krissy Kneen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In her 2010 memoir, Affection, Krissy Kneen introduced readers to her unique family and the towering matriarchal figure of her grandmother. Stern, domineering, fiercely loving, Lotty Kneen-born Dragitsa-was always tight-lipped about her early life and family history. She rebuffed Krissy's curiosity and ...Show more
The Petticoat Parade: Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels by Leigh Straw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Petticoat Parade, a true crime biography and social history of Josie de Bray's life is the latest book from award-winning author, Leigh Straw.Josie de Bray, aka Madam Monnier, aka Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the 1940s. A returned soldi ...Show more
True North: A Memoir by Catherine Deveny
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An uplifting, heartfelt memoir about surviving life's upheavals - and how to live authentically Breaking up isn't a conscious decision, it's more of a revelation ... In the first few moments after waking each day I needed to remind myself who I was and what had happened. It was like pulling a compass o ...Show more
Recipe for a Kinder Life by Annie Smithers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this generous account of life on the land and in the kitchen, trailblazing cook Annie Smithers chronicles her quest for a more sustainable existence, in harmony with the environment and the self. Part meditation, part memoir, the book offers practical advice and wisdom gleaned from a life dedicated t ...Show more
Heading South by Tim Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Featuring some of Australia's most iconic rail journeys, Heading South celebrates the unique joys of train travel and is the perfect book for the armchair traveller. Freelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor Tim Richards decides to shake up his life by taking an epic rail journey a ...Show more
UGLY: A Bikie's Life by Phil "Ugly" Mawson with Paul Fenech
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fighter, a protector, a figurehead, a jailbird, a son, husband and father, who started a brotherhood and has stood by it ever sinceWe were about to get into it when the other soldiers pulled us apart. I didn't care about squaring off against a Major, I was going home. I didn't really even know what I ...Show more
Alpha: A Reckoning for the Navy SEALs by David Philipps
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter uncovers the story of the shocking rise and fall of a decorated Navy SEAL accused of war crimes, the fellow SEALs who turned him in, and the court martial that captivated the nation.A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter uncovers the story of the shocking rise and fall of a ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political | Series: FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON
A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelagois Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven ...Show more
Joy of Money, The by Kate McCallum; Julia Newbould
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Money isn’t just about money. It’s about security. It’s about choices - to live our lives the way we want. It’s about everything money enables you to do and just as importantly what it allows you not to do. Money is complex. Women know that they need to be smart about money, but are often stopped short: ...Show more