The Forbidden Daughter by Zipora Klein Jakob
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging. Elida Friedman was never supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite th ...Show more
Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change, from the bestselling author of CLEO and BONO by Helen Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo, a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped guide the way. It was 1966 and the times they were a-changing, even in the provincial New Zealand coastal town of New Plymo ...Show more
Datsun Angel: A true-story adventure inside the savage heart of 1980s Australia by Anna Broinowski
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Datson Angel is a turbo-charged adventure into the dark heart of 1980s Australia: a place completely alien, yet frighteningly similar, to today. EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK HAPPENED . . . At seventeen, aching to begin her adult life, Anna Broinowski is precocious, naïve and in her first year of Arts/Law at ...Show more
Model Minority Gone Rogue: How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script by Qin Qin
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Category: Biography
"We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Lisa Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don't rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority. But doing everything right? It made her lost and miserable. So she decided to take a spectacular ri ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A triumphant story of hope and survival. I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and fac ...Show more
Some People Want to Shoot Me by Wayne Bergmann,Madelaine Dickie,
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has dedicated his life to his community, in this moving memoir of living between two cultures. As a Nyikina man who straddles both traditional and modern cultures, Wayne Bergmann has faced criticism and condemnation ...Show more
The Pulling by Adele Dumont
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When I've been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm's shriek. When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with trichotillomania - compulsive hair-pulling - it makes sense of ...Show more
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
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Category: Biography
These essays are a poignant reminder that some things cannot be fixed but can still hold immense beauty and meaning. All her life, Marie O'Rourke has been a Good Girl, a perfectionist, using words to apply golden seams to an imperfect life in an attempt to make something beautiful out of things that are ...Show more
Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time an ...Show more