The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
$28.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corne ...Show more
Desire: A Reckoning by Jessie Cole
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
What to do with the intensity of longing that occasionally arises? Sometimes I hug my pup so hard he growls. When my pup growls, I realise I need to find some other way of letting off steam. It's easy to imagine I could just touch myself and be done with it, but no matter how many times I make myself co ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The official biography of the award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate. 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 201 ...Show more
Desert Solitaire: A Season In The Wilderness [50th Anniversary Edition] by Edward Abbey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'My favourite book about the wilderness' Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service. Living out of a trailer, Abbey capt ...Show more
The Gap: A paramedic's summer on the edge by Benjamin Gilmour
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this riveting memoir, Gilmour recounts the call-outs that summer- some dangerous, some gruesome, some downright ridiculous. And we meet fellow paramedic John who, they say, can get a laugh out of everyone except the dead. As the city heats up that summer, however, even John begins to lose his sense o ...Show more
Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue
$48.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. No one has lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime ...Show more
Scarred - The true story of how I escaped NXIVM, the cult that bound my life by Sarah Edmondson; Kristine Gasbarre
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Scarred is Sarah Edmondson's compelling memoir of her recruitment into the NXIVM cult, the twelve years she spent within the organization (during which she enrolled over 2,000 members), her breaking point, and her harrowing fight to get out, to help others and to heal. This is also a story about abuses ...Show more
The Coffin Confessor by William Edgar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the man in the coffin had a few things to say.'Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest ...Show more
Seven Deadly Sins and One Very Naughty Fruit by Mikey Robins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A fascinating, funny and downright bizarre survey of culinary oddities by one of Australia's most beloved comedians.In this irreverent romp through the history of food via the Seven Deadly Sins, Mikey Robins uncovers the most bizarre food-related stories of all time. From the Ancient Egyptians to the Ro ...Show more