Dancing with the maternal bond: Life with an unusual child by Thea Calzoni
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Thea initially wrestles with the idea of motherhood and the threat of losing her own identity if she were to become a mother. However, all that is soon consumed by the birth of her first child, Julian, who is developmentally delayed and challenging. It explores the effects of having a disabled child on ...Show more
Walking With Ghosts - A Memoir by Gabriel Byrne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.'Make no mistake about it: this is a masterpiece . . . poetic, moving and very funny' -- Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World SpinAs a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel B ...Show more
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
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
With Child - Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher by Andy Martin; Lee Child (Foreword by)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
With a foreword by Lee Child.Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of Never Go Bac ...Show more
Paris or Die - A Memoir by Jayne Tuttle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Paris. The beauty. The grime. The colours and thoughts and songs and sounds and children and dogs. The taste of strawberries, the sky, first métro, last métro, the bells, the dreams ... The city of light, it seems, has its own plans for Jayne. Drawn there in an entirely unforeseen way, she finds hersel ...Show more
Ned Kelly (Graphic Novel) by Hugh Dolan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
We all think we know the story of Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous outlaw, but we've never seen him in full colour like this before ... Edward 'Ned' Kelly was born in 1855 into a poor Irish immigrant family in rural Victoria. He grew up loyal to his family, angry at the injustice he saw in Australia ...Show more
How to do a Liver Transplant: Stories from my Surgical Life by Kellee Slater
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
"When everything is in place and both teams are ready, someone cries out 'Cross-clamp!' Then it is on for young and old as the clock is ticking. Up to this point, it has been a careful and considered surgery. Now it is all about speed. We move like Edward Scissorhands, chop, chop, chop. This is the tric ...Show more
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo. Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-s ...Show more
The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most powerful, influential a ...Show more
Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write.Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the ...Show more
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures (Memoir) by Wilbur Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky enough to grow up among the heroes who had served in them and learn from their example. I have lucked into things continuously. I have done things which have seemed appalling at the time, d ...Show more
I'd Rather Not by Robert Skinner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
"I was sleeping in what might reasonably be described as a ditch, though I tried not to think of it in those terms for morale reasons … " Robert Skinner arrives in the city, searching for a richer life. Things begin badly and then, surprisingly, get slightly worse. Pretty soon he’s sleeping rough and t ...Show more