A Sunburnt Childhood: The bestselling memoir about growing up in the Northern Territory by Toni Tapp Coutts
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Toni Tapp grew up on the massive Killarney Station, where her stepfather, Bill Tapp, was a cattle king. But there was no 'big house' here - Toni did not grow up in a large homestead. She lived in a shack that had no electricity and no running water. The oppressive climate of the Territory - either wet o ...Show more
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free by Andy West
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
‘Tense and intimate… an education’ Geoff Dyer ‘Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending’ Lenny Henry ‘Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving’ Terry Waite __________ Can someone in prison be more free than someone outside? Would we ever be good if we never felt shame? What makes a person worthy of ...Show more
Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl: A memoir by Sonia Henry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying Sydney medical intern to dust-covered rural GP. Solo GP needed for medical clinic, mining town in Pilbara region, Western Australia. Car and accommodation provided. On call paid extra. Close proximity to absolutely n ...Show more
Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Helen Elliott’s Eleven Letters to You is a profoundly original memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, before feminism. This sparkling, wonderfully absorbing book is written in the form of eleven letters to those neighbours, relatives, friends, ...Show more
Hanging By a Thread: What would it take to walk away from your dream life in Monaco and a global, multi-million-dollar business? by Erin Deering
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The stratospheric rise of Australian swimwear label Triangl was one wild ride, with retail whiz Erin Deering at its helm. This is the story of building a business from scratch, selling one bikini a day to making over US $200,000 in the same 24 hours, and the devastating toll it took upon its Co-Founder ...Show more
Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
Raised by Wolves: A memoir with bite by Jess Ho
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctional family who only ever made peace over food (and then only until the bill arrived), and it was clear that a normal life was never on the menu. She emerged from her childhood with two important traits: ...Show more
Heartsick: Three stories about love and loss, and what happens in between by Jessie Stephens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Claire has returned from London to the dust and familiarity of her childhood home, only to realise something is wrong with her partner Maggie. Patrick is a lonely uni student, until he meets Caitlin - but does she feel as connected as he does? Ana is happily married with three children. Then, one night, ...Show more
In The Middle Of Nowhere by Terry Underwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"In the Middle of Nowhereis a story of beating the odds, of the power of love and the strength of family ties to overcome every obstacle. Terry met John at St Vincents Hospital, where she was training to be a nurse and he was recuperating from a horse-riding accident. They wrote love letters to each oth ...Show more
Motivated by Murder by Kenneth Marslew
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Ken Marslew shares his personal journey following the murder of his son, Michael in 1994. As he grapples with the incomprehensible loss, Ken takes readers on a heart-wrenching journey that begins with the harrowing incident, the funeral and the hunt for Michael's killers. Ken confronts a legal system t ...Show more
The Afterlife Confessional by Bill Edgar
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Heartbreaking and hilarious, outrageous and wise, The Afterlife Confessional is Bill Edgar's fascinating account of the things he's witnessed and learned as the Coffin Confessor - the bizarre and beautiful ways we live and love, the finality of death and the power of legacy, and how letting go can somet ...Show more
The girl who left: From Croatia to the canefields by Debra Gavranich
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Marija lives in a small village on the idyllic island of Korčula off the coast near Split in the country now known as Croatia. At 18 years of age she agrees to a proxy marriage to a 27-year-old sugarcane farmer in Far North Queensland who had left the village as a small child with his family in the 1920 ...Show more