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Walk Like a Cow: A Memoir by Brendan Ryan
$25.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Australian poet Brendan Ryan speaks about his life in this memoir of "the child, the youth and the young man finding his footing amidst the mysteries of cows and the ruthless cycles of the farm, the dry-eyed melancholy of the milking-shed and the mercy of the weather. Here also are the puzzles of existe ...Show more
Some Memories Never Die by Jeff Lang
$24.95 AUD
Category: MUSIC/MUSICIANS
Some Memories Never Die contains 22 chapters linked to 22 songs, each chapter a vignette drawn from author Jeff Lang's 30-plus years of experience as a touring musician. By turn hilarious, poignant, irreverent and haunting, Lang's writing takes you inside the life of an artist who has travelled the less ...Show more
Grimmish by Michael Winkler
$28.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-American boxer toured Australia, losing fights but amazing crowds with his showmanship and extraordinary physical resilience. On the east coast Grim played a supporting role in the Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns F ...Show more
About a Girl: A Mother's Powerful Story of Raising her Transgender Child by Rebekah Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 2000, Rebekah Robertson gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by the age of three it was clear Georgie was drawn to anything that was pretty or had a skirt that could swirl. Before long Georgie began to insist that she was a girl and b ...Show more
A Wedding Beneath a Banyan Tree - A Rich Tapestry of Family History by Ganga Kumar Powell
$29.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A rich tapestry of family history woven into the history of preindependence India. Ganga Kumar Powell navigates the by-ways and highways of her unconventional family story and the turbulent times, deftly joining the dots. Theosophy, with its subversive message of universal brotherhood, is a part of this ...Show more
DAAS: Their Part in My Downfall: On the Road with the Doug Anthony All Stars by Paul Livingston
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Under the guise of his alter ego Flacco, Paul Livingston basked in the reflected glory of Tim Ferguson, Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler and their anarchic comedy incarnation the Doug Anthony All Stars throughout the heady years of the late 80's and into the early 90's. Flacco and Paul now find themsel ...Show more
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work by Bernadette Brennan
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Helen Garner is one of Australia's most important, and some would say, most admired living writers. That admiration is inspired by a sense that she is honest, authentic and fearless in the pursuit of her craft. But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the ru ...Show more
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death and Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselve ...Show more
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster (Sandra Pankhurst)(PB) by Sarah Krasnostein
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ...But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clien ...Show more
Lament - The Name You Know. the Story You Don't by Nicole Kelly
$25.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A fictional re-imagining of the Ned Kelly story that short-listed in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize 2020.Synopsis:In June 1880, the reign of the Kelly Gang ended - guns blazing - in a fiery siege at the Glenrowan Inn. Ned Kelly survived, only to be hanged four months later. In this ...Show more
Eating with My Mouth Open by Sam van Zweden
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
'To eat is to build upon our collective story. We use food to say, again and again, who we are.' Eating with My Mouth Open is food writing like you've never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food writers, reve ...Show more
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
$25.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR | Reading Level: very good
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family. At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the o ...Show more