Childless: A Story of Freedom and Longing by Sian Prior
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A compelling, personal and fearless examination of a life lived without children of one's own, from Melbourne writer, broadcaster and journalist Sian Prior.I always wanted to have children. The earth might be in trouble-overpopulated, descending into ecological crisis-but I was always sure my kids would ...Show more
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A magical memoir from the New York Times bestselling writer about coming back from the brink of cancer and finding love second time around. If you pitched a movie about a woman in her seventies, recently widowed, who reconnects with a man she dated in college, leading to a month's long exchange of emai ...Show more
A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice by Hana Walker-Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should.A 14-year old-rugby player is told to play on through multiple blows. He never wakes up from the last one.A scientist reveals endemic brain disease in NFL players and is discredited.A survivor of domestic abuse can't remember details when standing up ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky 16-copy pack
$559.84 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
16 x ISBN 9781761150401
Runaways by Shaimaa Khalil, Shelley Davidow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both. ‘We don’t choose where we’re born. Geography ends up being everything.’ Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years ago in the Middle East when Shaimaa was Shelley’s student at the University of Qatar. Strangers in a strange land ...Show more
Homesickness by Janine Mikosza
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An extraordinary memoir that reflects on memory and finding your voice after decades of silence.She tells me she’s returning to every childhood home she lived in, and all the memories she can’t leave behind.The past, she says, it kind of owns me.I want permission to write her life while she lives it. I ...Show more
The Boy in the Dress by Jonathan Butler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On a balmy Townsville night in 1944, a young serviceman, Warwick Meale, is found murdered. The army and police do not, or will not, conduct a proper investigation and history forgets the killer - until now. Nearly eighty years on, Warwick's descendant Jonathan Butler dusts off the case and chases the le ...Show more
Outback Teacher: The inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures in remote Australia by Sally Gare
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A charming story of a young woman who faces challenges and finds joy teaching in outback schools
A Dolphin Called Jock: An injured dolphin, a lost young woman, a story of hope by Melody Horrill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The compelling, heart-warming story of how a traumatised young woman found peace through her friendship with an injured dolphin called Jock. When Melody Horrill began communications at the University of South Australia she was a troubled and lost young woman, hiding behind a carefully crafted exterior. ...Show more
Anna - The Biography by Amy Odell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
This definitive biography of Anna Wintour chronicles the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would, with singular and legendary focus, become the most powerful woman in media. As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob hair ...Show more
What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young: The Art And Science Of Growing Up by Rachel Sylvester, Alice Thomson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Loss and adversity are part of the human condition, but an imperfect past isn’t always an indicator of what’s to come. This book traces a pattern: why is it that often the people with the hardest beginnings in life – children who experience displacement, disease, financial ruin, abandonment or bereaveme ...Show more
Olive Cotton by Helen Ennis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A landmark biography of a singular and important Australian photographer, Olive Cotton, by an award-winning writer - beautifully written and deeply moving. Winner of the 2020 Canberra Critics' Circle Award for BiographyWinner of the University of Queensland Non Fiction Book Award, Queensland Literary Aw ...Show more