A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
$39.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
How did a shy Polish immigrant kid-Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki-evolve into the wildly eccentric Dr Karl? The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, little Karl was wildly idiosyncratic from the get go. In the sixties, he roasted raw chickens on the ta ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
$25.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
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
For Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying – and Flying by Ailsa Piper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An unforgettable and moving insight into loss, hope and starting again, aided by the incredible healing power of nature and a community of unexpected angels, for fans of Phosphoresence by Julia Baird. After I swim, I watch an osprey hanging in mid-air. It looks like pure pleasure, suspended, its wings ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
The Peppercorn Tree by John Fitzgibbon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
For fifty years, John Fitzgibbon didn't tell anyone about the abuse he had suffered at the hands of notorious priest and paedophile, Father John Day, in Mildura. Over a two-year period during primary school, John was one of Day's favourites, pulled out of class to visit Day in the presbytery. The Catho ...Show more
Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape by Seana Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health ...Show more
My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag by Michelle Brasier
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Your future is not guaranteed. And isn't that freeing? If you found out you had less time to live than the average bear, how might you spend it? That's a question comedian Michelle Brasier has been asking herself since her dad died of cancer, then her brother, and she was told there's a high chance she ...Show more
Sassafras: A memoir of love, loss and MDMA therapy by Rebecca Huntley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When you know that you need help but conventional means have failed you, what is left is the unexpected. MDMA is a drug made from the oil of the root of the sassafras tree. It is known as a party drug, taken by people who want to have a good time, to dance, to shed their inhibitions. It has also, si ...Show more
The Afterlife Confessional by Bill Edgar
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Heartbreaking and hilarious, outrageous and wise, The Afterlife Confessional is Bill Edgar's fascinating account of the things he's witnessed and learned as the Coffin Confessor - the bizarre and beautiful ways we live and love, the finality of death and the power of legacy, and how letting go can somet ...Show more
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In her bestselling follow-up to the worldwide phenomenon Becoming, Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and insightful reflections to help us find inner strength; create and deepen relationships with others; and better protect and strengthen ourselves.Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter ...Show more
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (HB) by Markus Zusak
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, ...Show more