Peter's Wars - A Memoir by Peter Geddes
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This fiercely funny memoir is set in Melbourne during the 1940s. The entrenched Protestant-Catholic divide of those times informs the narrative. Juxtaposed is the gulf between Melburnians and the thousands of Yanks stationed in their city following Pearl Harbor; the dizzying effect on the women had far- ...Show more
Life, Camera, Action by Mitchell Burns
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It took ten years in the coal mines for Mitchell Burns to realise that no pay cheque is worth sacrificing your dreams. Now he’s making up for lost time. Mitchell Burns never wanted to be a miner. Growing up in a Queensland coal mining town with parents in the industry, it never felt like pursuing his p ...Show more
When Life Gives You Lemurs: How Saving Animals Saved Me by Deborah Kane, Tim Husband
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A compelling story, beautifully told, about how animals can show you a way forward.' - Richard Glover A story of the tender power of animals to heal broken humans. Tim Husband was born into a Jehovah's Witness family who spent their weekends delivering God's Word. Struggling to fit into this orthod ...Show more
My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag by Michelle Brasier
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Your future is not guaranteed. And isn't that freeing? If you found out you had less time to live than the average bear, how might you spend it? That's a question comedian Michelle Brasier has been asking herself since her dad died of cancer, then her brother, and she was told there's a high chance she ...Show more
For Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying – and Flying by Ailsa Piper
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An unforgettable and moving insight into loss, hope and starting again, aided by the incredible healing power of nature and a community of unexpected angels, for fans of Phosphoresence by Julia Baird. After I swim, I watch an osprey hanging in mid-air. It looks like pure pleasure, suspended, its wings ...Show more
Shades of Me: My Many Lives Through Many Dreamings by Mel Brown
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Melinda Brown (Ngunnawal woman) shares the story of discovering her heritage and how the journey to understand her culture gave her the strength to find her place in the world. Mel Brown is an Australian Aboriginal Ngunnawal woman. This is her story. Growing up white, Mel always felt that there ...Show more
Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker. Le ...Show more
My Beautiful Sisters by Khalida Popal
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A story of survival, sisterhood and the fight for feminism in the age of the Taliban. August, 2021: Kabul falls to the Taliban. Overnight, life for women across Afghanistan changes. The national women's football team faces an imminent threat to their lives, just for playing sport. For Khalida Popal, th ...Show more
All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss and Art by Patrick Bringley
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art When Patrick's older brother dies at twenty-six, all he wants is to retreat. So, he does. He quits his job and seeks refuge in the most beautiful place he can think of: New York's Metropol ...Show more
Growing Up Indian in Australia by Aarti Betigeri
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'To be Indian growing up in Australia is to tread the narrow line between here and there, to constantly code-switch and navigate between filling the needs and aspirations of your family, your community - and yourself.' Indian-Australian' is not a one-size-fits-all descriptor. Given the depth and richne ...Show more
Am I Black Enough For You?: 10 Years On by Anita Heiss
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of an urban-based high achieving Wiradyuri woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia. I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed ...Show more
Two Cultures, One Story by Robert Isaacs
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I stood at the school gates with nothing but the clothes on my back. I had no money, no family, no home — nothing to show for the past 16 years except my cheap cardboard suitcase and a reasonable grasp of reading, writing and arithmetic … I didn't know what I was going to do next, but I knew that whate ...Show more