Escape from Manus: The untold true story by Jaivet Ealom
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape from Australia's notorious offshore detention centre on Manus Island. In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar's brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed, and boarded a boat of asylum seekers bound for Australia. ...Show more
I Am a Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A powerful memoir about a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world. She squeezes my hand and smiles. "I am here to feed hungry children in the village, because as Africans we must uplift each other." I don't understand what it means to uplift others, but I nod ...Show more
Do Something for Nothing - Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, Through the Simple Act of a Haircut by Joshua Coombes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Through the simple act of a hair cut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into the lives of humans experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world. "Coombes is a hairdresser, and he believes that small acts of love can make a big impact." --Morgan Freeman, in The Sto ...Show more
No One Listens to Your Dad's Show by Christian O'Connell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The hilarious and moving story of Christian O'Connell's very public mid-life crisis. 'Funny, honest and so raw. If Christian's cardiologist is suddenly wondering where his heart has gone, you'll find it all in this book.'Hamish Blake'I knew it would be clever, I knew it would be funny, but what I didn' ...Show more
The Mauritanian by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Previously published as Guantánamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion pictureThe first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored.Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guant ...Show more
Worn Stories by Emily Spivack
$37.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
New York Times Bestseller!Everyone has a memoir in miniature in at least one piece of clothing. In Worn Stories, Emily Spivack has collected over sixty of these clothing-inspired narratives from cultural figures and talented storytellers. First-person accounts range from the everyday to the extraordinar ...Show more
Off the Charts by Georgie Carroll
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Showering in gumboots. Bomb threats. Tables of turds. Welcome to the life of a nurse. Nurses are our number-one unsung heroes. They're the ones in the trenches mopping up bodily fluids, holding hands, keeping things ticking - and always with a smile on their face. In Off The Charts, Australia's favour ...Show more
Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty, and brutal humour. Jenny discusses the frustration of dealing with her insurance company in 'An Open Letter to M ...Show more
As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body by Kaya Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame. As Beautiful As Any Other weaves this legacy together with intimate examinations of ...Show more
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers - A Memoir by Jenn Shapland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol - alongside your own? Jenn Shapland's celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America's most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memo ...Show more
The Subversive Simone Weil - A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lyc e students and organized union w ...Show more
The Barbizon - The New York hotel that set women free by Paulina Bren
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more