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Into the Exotic - A Cultural Memoir by Christine Velde
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
INTO THE EXOTIC is a cultural memoir, about an Australian author’s decision to reside in Bali, and to journey to greater Indonesia and Asia. It illustrates what it is like to live in a foreign country as an expatriate and the challenges faced on a daily basis. The author learns that through overcoming t ...Show more
Sam Bloom: Heartache and Birdsong (HB) by Cameron Bloom; Samantha Bloom; Bradley Trevor Greive
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
The follow-up to the ABIA award-winning, internationally bestselling sensation Penguin Bloom. The heart-warming Australian story Penguin Bloom - the miraculous tale of a baby magpie that helped save a young mother and her family - is a homegrown and international bestseller; soon to be a major Hollywood ...Show more
Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps - A Personal Story by Lindsay Simpson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Adani's license to mine 60 million tonnes of coal for 60 years threatens Australia's precious ancient source of groundwater in the Galillee Basin, a vast underground water reservoir, part of the Great Artesian Basin, occupying more than 20% of Australia. How could a company with a globally disastrous re ...Show more
How I Clawed My Way to the Middle by John Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
'Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you!' I was flabbergasted. This I understood. A language that I spoke - had spoken most of my life. It was the best acting note I ever got. John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of hig ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern (I Know This to Be True): On Kindness, Empathy and Strength by Geoff Blackwell; Jacinda Ardern
$17.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Thoughts on kindness, empathy and strength from Jacinda Ardern, politician, feminist and champion for social equality.
Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
Unbowed by Billy Hedderman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
'I woke to the sight of a hospital ceiling. For that first blissful second, I forgot that I was paralysed.' On 31 December 2014 Billy Hedderman suffered a catastrophic injury to his spinal cord while body-boarding on the Sunshine Coast, paralysing him almost completely from the neck down. When asked if ...Show more
A Bigger Picture (Malcolm Turnbull, HB) by Malcolm Turnbull
$55.00 AUD
Category: Memoirs
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
Ellis Rowan: A Life in Pictures by Christine Morton-Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Ellis described the fungi: Growing, they look like dolls dressed up in fluted lace petticoats … Some are apple green, others mauve; one is black, and another has a scarlet cap. They stand high on long white stems, and the fungus closely resembles exquisite lace. In her 70s, artist and naturalist Ellis ...Show more
Roughy by Jarryd Roughead
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Roughy is a story of perspective from a Hawthorn legend – much more than a footballer’s tale. A country boy who grew up watching his old man play local footy in Leongatha, Jarryd Roughead’s talent and dedication turned him into an AFL star. Lining up alongside some of the greatest to ever play the ga ...Show more
Daddy Cool: Finding My Father, the Singer Who Swapped Hollywood Fame for Home in Australia by Darleen Bungey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
A captivating, generous and exquisitely written memoir of family and a daughter discovering her father's multi-layered life. 'Every family has secrets. Ours also has an award-winning biographer. My sister's discoveries astonished me.' Geraldine Brooks Who can ever truly know their parents? He was a gl ...Show more
From Snow to Ash: One Man's 500-Kilometre Trek Through an Iconic Australian Landscape by Anthony Sharwood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
The incredible, inspiring story of a solo journey through Australia's toughest and most beautiful hiking trail - the Australian Alps Walking Track - for fans of INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer or Cheryl Strayed's WILD and anyone who dreams of iconic wilderness walks. At the start of the hellish, fiery Au ...Show more
