Bleed by Bill Williams
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Surviving cerebral catastrophe: a tale of the mind, mortality and modern medicine On a trip to visit Pintubi friends in the remote western desert of central Australia, GP Dr Bill Williams wakes to a nightmare. Gisela, his wife, is felled by a thunderclap headache. What are the possibilities - migraine? ...Show more
Down Under The Tunes The Times The Tragedy by Trevor Comony
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and ...Show more
Henry and Banjo by James Knight
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Today most of us know that Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson were famous writers. We know about Matilda, Clancy of the Overflow and the Man from Snowy River; The Drover's Wife, While the Billy Boils and Joe Wilson and his mates, but little else. Here, in a compelling and engaging work, James Knig ...Show more
Mother's Story by Rosie Batty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A profoundly moving and inspiring memoir from Australia's domestic violence crusader, Rosie Batty. Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Ande ...Show more
Not Just Black and White by Lesley Williams
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Lesley Williams is forced to leave Cherbourg Aboriginal reserve and her family at fifteen to work as a domestic servant. Apart from a bit of pocket money, Lesley never sees her wages - they are kept 'safe' for her and for countless others just like her. She is taught not to question her life, until desp ...Show more
Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Small Acts of Disappearance describes the author's affliction with an eating disorder which begins in university, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright is a highly regarded poet and critic, and her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its con ...Show more
Killing Love by Rebecca Poulson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This powerful, unforgettable and uplifting story is one part wrenching family memoir, and one part inspirational journey towards healing and forgiveness - but most of all, it's an unputdownable journey through one family's tragedy and how they refused to let it define them. On the day of Rebecca Poulson ...Show more
Eat First, Talk Later by Beth Yahp
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A dazzling memoir from a talented Malaysian writer about family and home, and a searing portrait of the country of her birth. In this riveting memoir Beth persuades her ageing parents on a road trip around their former home, Malaysia. She intends to retrace their honeymoon of 45 years before, but their ...Show more
Boyhoodlum by Anson Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A hilarious memoir and a crash-investigator's report into how not to be a boy. Anson Cameron was born in the Victorian town of Shepparton in 1961, the son of a country lawyer and an English rose. Through the shoeless neighbourhoods and surrounding forests, sipping a Blue Heaven milkshake, shooting at an ...Show more
Is This My Beautiful Life? by Jessica Rowe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The fairytale I had dreamt up saw me still blazing ahead with my career, sharing the cooking and cleaning duties with my husband and having neat, tidy and well- behaved children who had beautifully brushed hair. But that was not my life...Journalist, celebrity, television presenter, author, ambassador f ...Show more
Second Half First - A Memoir by Drusilla Modjeska
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Beginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years that have shaped her writing, her reading and the way she has lived. From a childhood in England, and her parents' difficult marri ...Show more