She Is Not Your Rehab: One Man's Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired by Matt Brown
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Category: Memoirs & Biography
Cycles repeat until one person has the courage to say, 'This stops with me.' At My Fathers Barbers, Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers men a haircut with a difference - a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement. From his barbershop chair, Matt has inspired a new generation of New Ze ...Show more
Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
A triumphant story of hope and survival. I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and fac ...Show more
Rebel Rising: A Memoir by Rebel Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
"For decades, Rebel Wilson had single-mindedly focused on her career, making a name for herself through her iconic roles in Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids, and Isn't It Romantic. Now she's ready to chronicle the emotional and physical lessons she learned, as well as her most embarrassing experiences. A mala ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir by Sam Neill
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan for readers of BECOMING, I AM MALALA and RISING HEART by Dr Sima Samar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
'I have three strikes against me. I'm a woman, I speak out for women and I'm Hazara, the most persecuted tribe in Afghanistan.' Dr Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and had to agree ...Show more
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
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Category: Memoirs & Biography
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
This Accidental Present: A Story of Two Families by Ross Wilson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
The intersecting lives of extraordinary people: Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) and Sir Raphael & Lady Phyllis Cilento. In 1951, Kath Walker (later Oodgeroo Noonuccal) became the live-in housekeeper for the family of Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, an illustrious Brisbane medical family with connect ...Show more
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
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Category: Memoirs & Biography
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
Unique: What Autism Can Teach Us About Difference, Connection and Belonging by Jodi Rodgers
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Category: Memoirs & Biography
'We could all use a Jodi in our lives' NEW YORK TIMESBeloved star of ABC TV's award-winning Love on the Spectrum and disability rights advocate Jodi Rodgers shares stories from her three-decade career working with the autistic community and calls for a more inclusive and accepting society where we are m ...Show more
In Bad Faith: Inside a Secret Ultra-Orthodox Sect and the Brutal Betrayal It Tried to Hide by Dassi Erlich
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Category: Memoirs & Biography
'I am a sexual abuse survivor, but I am also more than a survivor. I will continue fighting for justice for all victims.' Dassi Erlich grew up in St Kilda East, the fourth of seven children born to parents who had joined one of the strictest ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the world. As a girl, he ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Memoirs & Biography
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more