Diary of a Rural GP (PB) by Michael SPARROW
$27.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
''Yes, I know it contravenes every rule in the book... lucky I threw that out years ago.'' Recently retired, Dr Sparrow reveals with refreshing candour and dark humour the most memorable experiences of his career as a rural GP on the Devon/Cornwall border. From sewing a patient's finger back on during a ...Show more
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
$32.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. 'I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues ...Show more
Unseen by Jacinta Parsons
$32.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Broadcaster Jacinta Parsons was in her twenties when she first began to feel unwell – the kind of unwell that didn’t go away. Doctors couldn’t explain why, and Jacinta wondered if it might be in her head. She could barely function, was frequently unable to eat or get out of bed for days, and gradually t ...Show more
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
$26.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
WINNER OF THE 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE 2020 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD-ISRAEL FISHMAN NONFICTION AWARDONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019One of the best books of the year as selected by The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper's Bazaar ...Show more
Bad Faith : A story of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil
$27.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
"Bad Faith" tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government's and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers. After the wa ...Show more
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Father Dreg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you've ever met-a man who lounges in boxer shorts and loves action movies. His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church's country. When a crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their worlds collide. I ...Show more
Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible by Alan Rusbridger
$39.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The Guardian editor's account of a remarkable musical challenge during an extraordinary year for news. In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin's Ballade No. 1 - a piece that inspires dread in many professional ...Show more
Father of the Lost Boys by Yuot A. Alaak
$29.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
During the Second Sudanese Civil war, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced from their villages or orphaned in attacks from northern government troops. Many became refugees in Ethiopia. There, in 1989, teacher and community leader Mecak Ajang Alaak assumed care of the Lost Boys in a bid to pro ...Show more
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2 by Deborah Levy
$24.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Longlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction From the twice-Booker-shortlisted author comes a witty and audacious examination of writing and womanhood "Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it toge ...Show more
Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search by Martin Sixsmith; Judi Dench (Foreword by)
$12.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The book that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan."The touching story of a mother's fifty-year search for her son." Sunday TimesWhen she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a fallen woman. S ...Show more
Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 by Deborah Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. Itis a work of ...Show more
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad, Jenna Krajeski
$24.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
`Offers powerful insight into the barbarity the Yazidi suffered alongside glimpses into their mystical culture . . . this is an important book by a brave woman, fresh testament to humankind's potential for chilling and inexplicable evil (Ian Birrell The Times) Courageous . . . Anyone who wants to under ...Show more