One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Read the book that inspired upcoming major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - the GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story ...Show more
Power and Obsession: Invasion, betrayal and a desperate search for justice by Catherine McCullagh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
She eyed him nervously, this man who could end her life without a second thought. She had been complacent, lulled into forgetting the immense power he wielded over her ... London, 1941, and in the battered capital of occupied Britain, Emilia Shaw works as a translator for ruthless SS General Oskar Voigt ...Show more
Strap Yourself In: A memoir of motherhood, dancefloors and all the mayhem in between by Amy Gerard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
A laugh-out-loud, deeply relatable memoir challenging our unrealistic expectations of motherhood and life, from the Instagram sensation and host of Beyond the Likespodcast In a world of highly curated Instagram pages and unrealistic expectations of motherhood, Amy Gerard is a gust of fresh air. She does ...Show more
The Long Goodbye: Lessons on humanity from the grips of Alzheimer's by Keri Kitay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
A powerful mix of memoir and hard-earned knowledge, in The Long Goodbye, Keri Kitay charts her family's poignant and devastating journey after their mother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. When Keri Kitay's mother, Terry, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, nothing cou ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Amongst the Grapevines by Minney Richani (Illustrator, Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Amongst The Grapevines is a mixed form memoir of poetry, prose and digital illustrations. This multifaceted collection explores a deep and personal connection to the Syrian conflict, those afflicted by it and the sense of misplaced identity it has caused. Amongst The Grapevines uncovers both the beauty ...Show more
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon an ...Show more
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Reading Level: very good
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundsta ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
$35.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...Show more
Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
$49.95 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two rickety biplanes to the age of the jumbo jets. One of Australia's celebrated Light Horsemen at Gallipoli, Fysh went on to ...Show more
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could ...Show more
In My Blood it Runs: History. Learning. Love. Resistance by Dujuan Hoosan, Margaret Anderson, Carol Turner
$26.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
This is the story of Dujuan Hoosan, a 10-year-old Arrernte and Garawa boy. A wise, funny, cheeky boy. A healer. Out bush, his healing power (Ngangkere) is calm and straight. But in town, it's wobbly and wild, like a snake. He's in trouble at school, and with the police. He thinks there's something wrong ...Show more