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The Storm Within: The Autobiography of a Legend by Cameron SMITH, with Andrew WEBSTER
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
***CAPTAIN OF THE 2020 TELSTRA NRL PREMIERSHIP WINNERS THE MELBOURNE STORM*** Cameron Smith AM is the most decorated rugby league player of all time. The recipient of numerous Dally M and Golden Boot awards, he has starred in the toughest league competition on the planet every season since he made his N ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries abo ...Show more
Jessica's Gift - A Mother's Journey Towards Healing after an Accident Claimed Her Daughter's Life by Susan Loch; Book Therapy (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Mother of three, Susan Loch, had led a carefree life until 21 March 2011. Yet when she woke to find a policeman standing beside her husband, she immediately guessed the sickening truth. Her nineteen-year-old daughter, Jessica, had been killed. She was the latest victim of a treacherous stretch of the Pr ...Show more
Like Father Like Son by Michael Parkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
Unbowed by Billy Hedderman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
'I woke to the sight of a hospital ceiling. For that first blissful second, I forgot that I was paralysed.' On 31 December 2014 Billy Hedderman suffered a catastrophic injury to his spinal cord while body-boarding on the Sunshine Coast, paralysing him almost completely from the neck down. When asked if ...Show more
Dangerous Animals in the Home - My Abuse. the Bigger Picture by Karyn Webber
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Can you recognise a dangerous animal in your home? Dangerous Animals in the Home is the true story of a woman who, on the surface, has it all: a successful business, popularity, loving family and friends. But beneath the surface, there is much, much, more. Delivering a raw, real, and insightful portraya ...Show more
Impossible: My Story by Stan Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
Mary's Last Dance by Mary Li
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
'I can vividly remember the last steps of the last ballet, walking off the stage led by a mother and knowing the decision I had to make. That was my last dance.' Mary Li (nee McKendry) is an international ballet star and a mother like no other. She became a household name when her husband Li Cunxin publ ...Show more
Wild at Heart by Alienor le Gouvello
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoirs
From the moment French-born Alienor encountered a pair of wild horses in the Australian outback, she was transfixed. Fiercely loved by some and considered a scourge by others, brumbies have a complicated place in Australian culture and history. Inspired to celebrate their character, Alienor tamed thre ...Show more
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her bab ...Show more
Being Black 'n Chicken, and Chips (PB) Younger Reader Edition by Matt Okine
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Mike Amon is a regular teenager. All he wants is to fit in. He wants to sit at the cool bench. He wants to be a star athlete. He wants his first kiss.He also wants his mum to survive.When his mum is suddenly diagnosed with advanced breast and brain cancer, Mike knows it's a long shot, but if he manages ...Show more
