The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James Rebanks with a pretty decent camera and a pre-loaded Twitter app--the tools to share his way of life with the world. And what began as a tentative experim ...Show more
Bad Mormon: A Memoir by Heather Gay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this funny, brash, and unbelievably vulnerable book, Bad Mormon recounts Heather’s experiences as a single mother to three girls, navigating life post-divorce and post-Mormonism. It follows Heather’s early days as a young girl in the church, through to her disavowal of the Mormon faith and success in ...Show more
Penny Wong: Passion And Principle - The Biography by Margaret Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from workplace relations to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide. In this first-ever biography of Penny Wong, a ...Show more
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Garner is a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garner's work as 'intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.' PRAISE FOR EVERYWHERE I LOOK'A captivating collection...No matter the topic, Garner is a charming and courageous writer whose distinctive voice ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin, Li Cunxin
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Before you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his scho ...Show more
He by Murray Bail
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, 'he wouldn't know what day it is'. An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiogr ...Show more
Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart by JUDITH LUCY
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Judith Lucy was just Great!Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, she was menopausal, she suspected her career was in the shitter and it seemed like the world was going to hell in a handbasket – but she was about to move in with the love of her life! Everything would wor ...Show more
Michelle Obama - Becoming by Michelle Obama
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more
Telltale: Reading Writing Remembering by Carmel Bird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'I was confined, locked into my library, tracing my heartbeats from way, way back.’ In Telltale, Carmel Bird seizes on an enforced isolation to re-read a rich dispensary of books from her past. A rule she sets herself is that she can consult only the books in her house, even if some, such as the much-l ...Show more
Gurawul the Whale An ancient story for our time by Max Dulumunmun Harrison
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
‘When I was 10 years old, I was given Gurawul’s story by my grandfather Muns…in the dirt…they made me promise to go to the southern land and search for the whale dreaming. I had no idea what it meant or that it would take me 70 years to keep it.’ — Uncle Max HarrisonMore than 70 years ago, the ancient l ...Show more
When All is Said & Done by Neale Daniher
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Neale Daniher sat down to pen a letter to the grandchildren he'll never get to know. And then he kept on writing ... In 2013, the AFL legend was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease - a cruel and incurable condition. He had a choice. He could spend his remaining time focused on himself, or he could seiz ...Show more
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage To Stand Alone by Brené Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection.'True belonging doesn't require us to change who we ...Show more