American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
Hope: The inspiring and deeply moving new book about finding peace from the bestselling author of A MOTHERS STORY, for readers of Leigh Sales, Julia Baird, Turia Pitt and Indira Naidoo by Rosie Batty
$25.99 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
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
A Scar is Also Skin (PB) by Ben Mckelvey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From bestselling author Ben Mckelvey comes the inspiring story of stroke, heart attack, survival and remaking a broken body and mind. A book for those who bought Sarah Wilson's First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Osher Gunsberg's Back, After the Break and Emma Carey's The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. ...Show more
Vergil: The Poet's Life by Sarah Ruden
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70-19 BCE) became the world's f ...Show more
Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican Paedophile Network of Newcastle, Its Protectors and the Man Who Fought for Justice by Anne Manne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A searing expose of institutional child abuse, and the remarkable story of the survivors who would not be silenced For many years, Newcastle was the centre of an extensive paedophile network run by members of the Anglican church - and protected by parishioners and community members who looked the other ...Show more
How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How do you write a memoir when you have lost your memories? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues. I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism – Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has led a remarkable life. Power of Balance is a landmark memoir that explores the events and ideas that have inspired and provoked her in working to create change. One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as p ...Show more
I'll Let Myself In: Breaking down doors, claiming space and finding your wheels by Hannah Diviney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A defiant coming of age story about a young woman coming to terms with all that she is, the good, the bad and the ugly. When it occurred to me that the only real books I'd ever read with disabled characters in them were specialty books, displayed and designed exclusively for therapy settings, some of th ...Show more
A Farming Life: Tales of resilience from inspiring rural women by Liz Harfull
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Bestselling author Liz Harfull shares fascinating true stories of rural Australian women, showcasing the passion, tenacity and resilience required to make a life on the land. Making a living on the land in Australia can be tough at the best of times, but the last few years of seemingly endless droughts, ...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