Teacher: One woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching by Gabbie Stroud
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more
I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne; Penelope Dening (Translator); Marie-Therese Cuny (As told to)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
I lived through the Dutroux affair from the inside, and all these years I have kept silent about it - about my 'personal' Dutroux Affair, my time in the company of the most hated psychopath in Belgium. I need to write this book for three reasons: so that people stop giving me strange looks and treating ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'A memoir to stand alongside classics by the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Lorna Sage a a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination' Sunday TimesTara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent he ...Show more
From Scratch - A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour. It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Flor ...Show more
You're on an Airplane - A Self-Mythologizing Memoir by Parker Posey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Parker as your seat companion, perhaps? Parker's irreverent, hilarious, and enchanting memoir gives you the incredible opportunity. Full of personal stories, whimsical how-tos, recipes, and beautiful handmade collage ...Show more
On Sheep - Diary of a Swedish Shepherd by Axel Lindén; Frank Perry (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Axel Lindén is a shepherd-philosopher with James Herriot's knack for mishap and an almost Chekhovian deadpan humour.' Observer 'Endearing and liberating.' Idler Magazine 'A sublime little book.' Cotswold Life _______ Why do we keep sheep? Alex Lindén ruminates as he watches his sheep ruminating. Na ...Show more
Lost in Florence: An insider’s guide to the best places to eat, drink and explore by Nardia Plumridge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Curious Travel Guides
Florence is renowned for its Renaissance art, yet this celebrated city is more than just a tourist hub for galleries filled with gilt-framed paintings. Go beyond the facade of the palazzi and instead take a turn down the cobblestone side streets to discover vintage stores housing designer names, restaur ...Show more
The Wife's Tale - A Personal History by Aida Edemariam
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In this indelible memoir that recalls the life of her remarkable ninety-five-year old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia--a nation that would undergo a tumultuous transformation from feudalism to monarchy to Marxist revolution to democracy, over the course ...Show more
I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (HB) by David Chariandy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy. I can glimpse, through the lens of my own e ...Show more
One Hundred Miracles - A Memoir of Music and Survival by Zuzana Ruzicková; Wendy Holden
$37.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ružicková, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. Zuzana Ružicková grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful, melodic childhood was torn apart when, in 1939, the Nazis invaded. Uprooted from ...Show more
Lawless - A Lawyer's Unrelenting Fight for Justice in One of the World's Most Dangerous Places by Kimberley Motley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The extraordinary story of Kim Motley, the US woman who became the first foreign lawyer to practice in Afghanistan.
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing. "By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it's exactly the book America needs at this moment."--Celeste Ng "Who taught ...Show more