The Bootle Boy - An Untidy Life in News by Les Hinton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
When Les Hinton first fulfils his schoolboy dream of working on Fleet Street, it is still a place awash in warm beer, black ink, fag ash, and hot metal. Fifty-two years after being sent out to buy a sandwich for his first boss, one Rupert Murdoch, when Les finally leaves Murdoch's employment in 2011, th ...Show more
Finding Stevie the Story of a Young Boy in Crisis by Cathy Glass
$16.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: Adult
The true story of Stevie, aged 14, who is struggling with his gender identity when he is fostered by Cathy after his erratic behaviour brought his caregivers up short. When Cathy is told to expect Stevie, who is gender fluid, she isn't sure what the term means and looks it up online. Stevie and his two ...Show more
In My Blood by Cheryl Koenig
$27.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
An extraordinary life, from ordinary beginnings. Optimism, resilience, audacity, hope, surviving daily challenges for themselves and those they love; carers embody all of these qualities. Cheryl Koenig's fifth book, a memoir, deals with all those human qualities necessary to not only survive a life-thre ...Show more
First, they Erased Our Name: A Rohingya speaks by Habiburahman, Sophie Ansel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old, and I don't yet know that I am stateless." Habiburahman was born in 1979 and raised in a small village in western Burma. When he is three y ...Show more
One Life Once Chance by Luke Richmond
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
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Gorgeous Girl by Mary Pershall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'The only way to comprehend this tragic story of mine is to write it.' On the 10th of February 2017, there was a sentencing hearing for murder in the Victorian Supreme Court. The young woman in the dock, who sat quietly with her hands in her lap, had perfect skin and light-brown hair tied back as neatl ...Show more
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: the Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee by Sam Kashner; Nancy Schoenberger (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else-Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill-from the authors of Furious Love. When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee ...Show more
You All Grow up and Leave Me - A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir-- The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep--that presents an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of girlhood within Manhattan's exclusive prep-school scene in the early 1990s, and a thoughtful meditation on adolescent obsession and the vulner ...Show more
A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built A Hospital and Changed the World by Edna Adan Ismail; Wendy Holden (As told to)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
An incredible true story SIMPLY A MIDWIFE is the inspirational story of a remarkable daughter, nurse and First Lady. The indomitable Edna Adan Ismail survived imprisonment, persecution, and civil war to become a pioneering politician, a leading light in the World Health Organisation, and a global campa ...Show more
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement by Albert Woodfox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: 3
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement - in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours aday, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana - all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endur ...Show more
The Upside (FTI) by Abdel Sellou
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralyzed French aristocrat) inspired the award-winning French movie Les Intouchables (2012), which became an international phenomenon and broke records as one of the most successful French movies ...Show more
Toil & Trouble: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life after death. Vampires. Zombies. Reiki. Homeopathy. Rolfing. Reflexology. Note that 'witches' and 'witchcraft' are absent from this list. The thing is, I wouldn't believe in them, ...Show more