It’s a Shame About Ray: A Memoir by Jonathan Seidler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY is an extraordinary and powerful memoir about family, love and the power of music. What tracks combine to make a family album? What do we carry from one generation to a next? What is the difference between leaning on and letting go? Blackly funny and frequently devastating, this m ...Show more
Bohemian Negligence by Bertie Blackman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The celebrated musician's evocative and intimate memoir of the magic and vulnerability of her bohemian childhood growing up as the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman. If you could touch your memories, how would they feel? My first memory of life is blurry. A blurry red dot. A strawberry in a thi ...Show more
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (HB) by Shaun Bythell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown. The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty ...Show more
Climb Your Mountain: Everyday lessons from an extraordinary life by Ranulph Fiennes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
'Life is too short to waste time on second-class ambitions. Go for the big ones.' Now in his late seventies, Sir Ranulph Fiennes looks back on a lifetime of exploration, and draws powerful, inspiring lessons that we can all use when faced by the tribulations of everyday life. Having crossed both Polar i ...Show more
Big Things Grow: A Memoir of Teaching on Country in Wilcannia by Sarah Donnelley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An inspiring memoir about passion, music and community within a remote outback town, from the winner of the 2020 ARIA Award for Music Teacher of the Year. This red dirt, it takes a hold of you. The blue skies, the sunsets, the starry nights, the river... Country holds onto you. Then you meet the people ...Show more
Reaching One Thousand: A Story of Love, Motherhood and Autism by Rachel Robertson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Deeply touching but never sentimental, this remarkable book is more than a story of one boy and his mother. It's a thoughtful meditation on the intricate workings of the human mind and heart.' TONI JORDANWhen Ben is a baby, Rachel puts his quirks down to eccentricity. He likes to count letterboxes; he ...Show more
Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller (HB) by Christine Courtenay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The long-awaited memoir of the late Bryce Courtenay - Australia's bestselling author - as told by his wife, Christine Courtenay. When Christine Courtenay began penning her own life story in lockdown last year, she found herself increasingly drawn into the story of her late husband and bestselling author ...Show more
Good Morning, Mr Sarra by Chris Sarra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"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
Elizabeth: An intimate portrait from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years by Gyles Brandreth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarchThis intimate, personal biography of Queen Elizabeth II tells the story of her remarkable life, reign and times, from a perspective unlike any other. Gyles Brandreth writes the Queen's tale candidly with grace and sensitiv ...Show more
The Times The Queen and the Commonwealth: Celebrating Seven Decades of State Visits by The Times, James Owen
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Our most travelled monarch covered well over 1,000,000 miles and visited 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados, we look back at Queen Elizabeth’s most memorable Commonwealth visits. While the Commonwealth itself has endured the challenges of a changing society over the last seven ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia by Michael Adams
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crap-carrier-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous anti-hero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vaga ...Show more
Kinfolk Islands by John Burns
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Kinfolk Adventures Ser.
Join Kinfolk on a journey off the beaten track, to islands big and small, in this collection of eighteen new travel stories. Whether it’s a tour of the otherworldly landscape of Socotra in Yemen or a hike into the old growth of a Japanese forest on Yakushima, each slow travel itinerary invites you to se ...Show more