We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Essays by Samantha Irby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexu ...Show more
Get up Mum by Justin Heazlewood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: Adult
It's 1992 in Burnie, Tasmania. Twelve-year-old Justin Heazlewood just wants to be a normal boy with a normal family. He's excited to finish primary school, listen to Rage with his friends over the holidays and play Yahtzee with Nan and Pop; but he lives alone with his mum and she is crying uncontrollabl ...Show more
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?All Sloane wanted was to be admire ...Show more
A Dangerous Woman - American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator--The Life of Florence Gould by Susan Ronald
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Susan Ronald's A DANGEROUS WOMAN is the revealing biography of Florence Gould, a fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940's Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Be ...Show more
Boy Erased - A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family by Garrard Conley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, and directed by Joel Edgerton. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young ma ...Show more
Staying: A Memoir by Jessie Cole
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As children, Jessie Cole and her brother Jake ran wild, free to roam their rainforest home as they pleased. They had each other, parents who adored them, and two mysterious, beautiful, clever half-sisters, Billie and Zoe, who came to visit every holidays. But when Jessie was on the cusp of adolescence, ...Show more
No Country Woman: A memoir of not belonging by Zoya Patel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I was born in a hospital in Suva, Fiji. I can't recall ever seeing the building on my trips back to the city, first as a child or later as an adult. I imagine it in shades of blue and brown, the plastic waiting room chairs covered in the fine film of moisture that creeps over everything there. It is no ...Show more
Without My Mum: A Daughter's Guide to Grief, Loss and Reclaiming Life by Leigh; Horst Leigh Van Der;Van Der Horst
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Leigh Van Der Horst lost her beloved mother to cancer in 2008, she faced her biggest battle yet. How would she cope without the wisdom and support of her role model? InWithout My Mum, Leigh reveals how she overcame her devastating grief, and in the process rediscovered herself and her inner strengt ...Show more
I Will Be Complete by Glen David Gold
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and Chang and Eng From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted memoir about his bizarre upbringing in Californi ...Show more
Defying The Enemy Within by Joe Williams
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Former NRL player, world boxing title holder and proud Wiradjuri First Nations man Joe Williams was always plagued by negative dialogue in his head, and the pressures of elite sport took their toll. Joe eventually turned to drugs and alcohol to silence the dialogue, before attempting to take his own lif ...Show more
She Wants It - Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
In this poignant memoir of personal transformation, Jill Soloway takes us on a patriarchy-toppling emotional and professional journey. When Jill's parent came out as transgender, Jill pushed through the male-dominated landscape of Hollywood to create the groundbreaking and award-winning Amazon TV series ...Show more
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As a student in Melbourne, Elizabeth Kleinhenz heard frequent talk of this almost mythical figure, Germaine Greer. Urged on by her mother, a first wave feminist, she read The Female Eunuch, a clarion call that rallied women to assert their female power,and, like her mother and millions of others across ...Show more