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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 nce contained in parents and siblings, in small things and small talk, and the revelations of the school bus and the school. This is a classic memoir: Brendan Ryan's words come at us directly, and often with startling intensity, from indelible experience. And we feel his need to return." (Don Watson, 2020) ...Show more

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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 -trodden path. The book will include a download for brand new recordings of all 22 songs included. ...Show more

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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 ight of the Century; on the west coast he was committed to an insane asylum. In between he played with the concept and reality of pain in a shocking manner not witnessed before or since. Award-winning writer Michael Winkler braids the story of Grim in Australia and meditations on pain with thoughts on masculinity and vulnerability, plus questionable jokes, in a haymaker of highly creative non-fiction. ...Show more

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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 ecame distressed that she had to hide who she really was when she started school. Soon the bullying started and she would come home in floods of tears, begging her mother to help her. Rebekah and her husband, conflicted about how to proceed and overwhelmed by fear, united in their determination to help her live freely and fearlessly. To ensure Georgie had access to medical support they sought permission for her to begin puberty-blocking medication. Their case was the start of the long road to justice for transgender children in Australia and became the basis of the 2013 landmark decision to remove the Family Court's jurisdiction. Georgie would go on to become one of the brightest stars of the Australian youth leadership landscape through her advocacy work. And Rebekah would found Transcend, a support network for transgender kids and their families in Australia. Part memoir and part inspirational message of hope for those navigating a similar path, About a Girl is a thought-provoking and profoundly moving true story. Above all, it is a celebration of family and the values that unite us all. ...Show more

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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 story and the life of her family. Explorations into the political and social history of the times give the book depth alongside the colour, charm and intimacy of personal connections. Written with warmth and a light touch, this engaging account will appeal to readers from the subcontinent as well as Indophiles, armchair historians and genealogy buffs. ...Show more

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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 ves wrenched out of comfortable obscure retirement and treading the boards once more with Timothy Ferguson and Paul McDermott, two of the original members of D.A.A.S., on a sell-out reunion tour that the Sydney Morning Herald last year announced as the most important comedy event since 1995. D.A.A.S. fans old and new have flocked to see the shows and DAAS - Their Part in my Downfall documents the horror, the glory, the egos and the strife of life on the road, then and now. At their peak D.A.A.S teetered on greatness, and Paul teetered with them, until that teeter was sabotaged by an illness known primarily by its initials, M.S., Multiple Sclerosis. But M.S. has proved no match for Timothy Ferguson, who refuses to take sitting down lying down...As a fly on the pungent walls of D.A.A.S. dressing rooms across the globe, Paul and Flacco have kept tabs and probed the depths and the shallows of these men. All is revealed in this tell-all account of their rise, disappearance and rebirth, along with interviews with their fans, colleagues and famous peers and admirers, as well as the legion of Australian comedians influenced by early D.A.A.S. As the bad old men of Australian comedy go back to where it all began in 1989, the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, can they recapture the magic? Will Hollywood still be waiting? Will anyone remember them?..'There is...a ruthless tenderness about the Doug Anthony All Stars that makes them more scathingly funny than ever.' Libbi Gorr..'I am laughing at death. Laughing at the loss of my parents. Laughing at all my weaknesses and dumb mistakes. I resolve to phone my sister with whom I've been estranged. I privately forgive my ex. I wipe away tears. It's not fair. Comedy isn't supposed to get to these places. But they are DAAS. More than comics. Less than gods. Hmph. I hate them more than ever. But I will see them again'. Zac Berger ...Show more

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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 les of literary form. She appears to write so much of herself into her non-fiction, and many of her own experiences inform her fiction. But who is the 'I' in Helen Garner's work? Dr Bernadette Brennan has had access to previously unavailable papers in Garner's archive, and she provides a lively and rigorous reading of the books, journals and correspondence of one of Australia's most beloved women of letters.A Writing Lifeis the first full-length study of Garner's work, a literary portrait that maps Garner's writing against the different stages of her life. ...Show more

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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 s to deal with the distance between the world as it is, and the world as we’d like it to be. How they can stunt us – or save us. Some of the people you will meet believe in things most people don’t. Ghosts. UFOs. Heaven and the Devil. The literal creation of the universe in six days. Others believe in things most people would like to. Dying with autonomy. Facing one’s own transgressions with an open heart. In this intensely personal and gorgeously written new book Krasnostein talks with her characteristic compassion and empathy to these believers – and finds out what happens when their beliefs crash into her own. ...Show more

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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 ts deserve no less.A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose.Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead - and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together. ...Show more

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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 re-imagining of Australia's most notorious bushranger, Ned is given the chance to keep his band of brothers together and build a better life.What unfolds is the human side of four outlaws who are remembered as much for their anarchy and rebellion as their crimes. Ned Kelly. The life that might have been. ...Show more

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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 lling in body positivity on Instagram, remembering how Tupperware piled high with sweets can be a symptom of spiralling mental health, dissecting wellness culture and all its flaws, sharing the joys of living in a family of chefs and seeing a history of migration on her dinner plate. Recalling the writing of Lindy West and Roxane Gay, as well as classic food writers M.F.K. Fisher and Brillat-Savarin, Eating with My Mouth Open considers embodiment and the meaning of true nourishment within the broken food system we live in.  ...Show more

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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 uter rim of her is covered by her pinny, woven with tiny flowers. It is soft from washing; her hands are hard and chapped; it is barely ten o'clock and she is getting the cabbage on. 'Hello, Our Ilary,' she says; my family has named me aspirationally, but aspiration doesn't stretch to the 'H'. Giving Up the Ghost is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's wry, shocking and uniquely unusual five-part autobiography of childhood, ghosts, illness and family. It opens in 1995 with 'A Second Home', in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, a death which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of childhood. 'Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' begins in typical, gripping Mantel fashion: 'Two of my relatives have died by fire.' Set during the 1950s, it takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating with the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelit ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. In 'The Secret Garden' Mantel moves to a haunted house and mysteriously gains a stepfather. When she is almost eleven, her family flee the gossips and the ghosts, and resolve to start a new life. 'Smile' is an account of teenage perplexity, in a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Convent school provides a certain sanctuary, with tacit assistance from the fearsome 'Top Nun.' In the final section, the author tells how, through medical misunderstandings and neglect, she came to be childless, and how the ghosts of the unborn, like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer. ...Show more

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