A Joyful Life: One Woman’s Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and Gratitude by Rosemary Kariuki, Summer Land
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A Joyful Life is the astonishing memoir of Rosemary Kariuki, one of Australia's most beloved Local Heroes. Long before she was advocating for refugee and migrant women just like herself, Rosemary was a survivor like no other. As a child, she survived the first of many times she was sexually abused. A ...Show more
Playground Duty by Ned Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the baking heat of February 1973, wearing a purple nylon bodyshirt and an expression of confidence that belied his nerves, Ned Manning faced down a classroom full of kids in Tenterfield in remote NSW. It was the start of many years of teaching, by turns exhilarating, nerve-fraying and inspiring. Pack ...Show more
Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut; Ben Mckelvey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Deng Adut was six years old when war came to his village in South Sudan. Taken from his mother, he was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He was taught to use an AK-47 then sent into battle. Shot in the back, dealing with illness and the relentless brutality of war, Deng's future was ...Show more
Manifesto - On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and act ...Show more
The Art of Binding People - A Poetic Memoir That Challenges Assumptions on Mental Health by Paolo Milone; Lucy Rand (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A moving and transformative journey into the most mysterious, heartbreaking, and awe-inspiring corners of the human mind
The Miracle Typist by Leon Silver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the tradition of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, a heartbreaking true story of love, loss and survival against all odds during the Second World war. Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler's ground and air forces are bearing down on his country, Jew Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and ...Show more
Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years. Gillian Mears appeared to many to be a shy woman from Grafton, but her lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive pass ...Show more
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook ...Show more