Daughter of The River Country by Dianne O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From a victim of the 'stolen generations' comes a remarkable memoir of abuse, survival - and ultimately hope.Born in country NSW in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her Aboriginal mother. Raised in the era of the White Australia policy, Dianne grows up believing her adoptive Irish mother ...Show more
Funkytown by Paul Kennedy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Paul Kennedy's Funkytown is the vivid true story of a year in the life of a teenager leaping into manhood. It is 1993: a serial killer is loose on the streets of Frankston, Victoria. The community is paralysed by fear and a state's police force and national media come to find a killer. Meanwhile, sevent ...Show more
The Wonder of Little Things by Vince Copley, Lea McInerney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Welcome to my story. It's a simple story of a simple person, who's lived a long life now with some struggles along the way. I didn't learn a lot in school, not in the classroom, anyway. But I learned a lot from life.' Vince Copley was born on a government mission into poverty in 1936. By the time he w ...Show more
Good Morning, Mr Sarra by Chris Sarra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"When Chris Sarra arrived as the first Aboriginal principal of Cherbourg State School, it was a time of high hopes but low expectations in Indigenous education. Over six years, he transformed the school into a national success story. Along the way, he battled the media, the education system and a cultur ...Show more
Still Standing by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
There are few more moving experiences than for the silenced to be heard. Chrissie Foster is the mother who brought the rich and powerful Catholic Church to its knees over its global abuse of children, including two of her daughters, Emma and Katie. Like the Boston Globe's Spotlight team, she built an un ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
One Crowded Hour: Neil Davis - Combat Cameraman (1934-85) POD by Tim Bowden
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Australian Classics
First published in 1987, it remains a must-read for aspiring photographers, cinematographers, journalists and war buffs. For over twenty years, from the early 1960s, Neil Davis brought enduring images of the full horror of modern war directly from the battlefront to the world's television screens. Davis ...Show more
Poum and Alexandre by Catherine de Saint Phalle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
This is the story of two flawed eccentrics. Everything they do subverts their firm intention of keeping up appearances. They meet just after the war in liberated Paris but they cannot quite free themselves from the many strings attached to them - the old aunts, the sisters, the cousins, the nuns and the ...Show more
Rasputin: The Biography by Douglas Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Nearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever. Was he really a horse thief and a hard-drinking ruffian in his youth? Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in fact a just a fake holy man? Are the stories of his enormous sexual drive, debauchery, and drunken or ...Show more
Kayang & Me by Kim Scott; Hazel Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Kayang & Me is a powerful story of community and belonging, revealing the deep and enduring connections between family, country, culture and history that lie at the heart of Indigenous identity.
Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut; Ben Mckelvey
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Deng Adut was six years old when war came to his village in South Sudan. Taken from his mother, he was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He was taught to use an AK-47 then sent into battle. Shot in the back, dealing with illness and the relentless brutality of war, Deng's future was ...Show more
Boy on Fire - The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is the ...Show more