Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home. In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. Combining pages of her diary, kept thro ...Show more
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further conversations with my psychiatrist by Baek Sehee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would reac ...Show more
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan. At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary L.A. party for the pub ...Show more
Blood, Fire and Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
‘A story told with verve and passion’ The Times, Book of the Week ‘An alternative and engaging biography…accessible and unpretentious’ The Telegraph ‘A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history’ Tracy Borman ‘Exciting and compelling, packed full of tantalising details of d ...Show more
Gypsy Girl: A Life on the Road. A Journey to Freedom by Rosie McKinley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A life lived on the road and a heart that will always belong there. Imagine being born into a world where communities are constantly on the move, but freedom is not a birthright. Rosie grew up travelling all over England and Ireland in her family's caravan. She had an idyllic childhood roaming fields an ...Show more
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The true story of a 10-year-old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, courageously defying both Yemeni customs and her own family. Nujood's childhood came to an abrupt end when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujoo ...Show more
The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim - The Woman Who Invented Freud's Talking Cure by Gabriel Brownstein
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The story of a patient who changed the world, and the mystery of her illness. In 1880, young Bertha Pappenheim got strangely ill--she lost her ability to control her voice and her body. She was treated by Sigmund Freud's mentor, Josef Breuer, who diagnosed her with "hysteria." Together, Pappenheim and ...Show more
Byron's Travels
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In Lord Byron's lifetime, details of his travels were widely known through poems set in different countries, ranging from his homes in Scotland and England, through Europe and the Middle East, to the South Pacific and into extra-terrestrial realms. At the same time, a much more personal story was being ...Show more
After the Worst has Happened: Tales from a funeral director on the lighter side of death by Richard Gosling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Tales from a funeral director on the lighter side of death When Richard Gosling's young daughter faced emergency surgery, a colleague carelessly asked what would happen if she died. In that moment, Richard was forced to picture his own daughter's funeral, and the people who are there to help families af ...Show more
Troubled - A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class by Rob Kim Henderson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir