Searching for Charlotte: The Fascinating Story of Australia's First Children's Author (Charlotte Waring Atkinson) by Kate Forsyth; Belinda Murrell
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Category: Biography and Memoir
In Searching for Charlotte, Forsyth and Murrell tell Charlotte's story along with that of their own journey to discover her. In an intriguing account, the sisters join the reader in reacting to Charlotte's actions: wondering what could have motivated certain choices; admiring the strength of spirit that ...Show more
Strong Female Character: Nero Book Awards Winner by Fern Brady
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Prizewinner - Nero Prize for Non Fiction 2023 THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER 'An absolute riot. I'm literally going to read it again once I've finished, and I'm a miserable bastard...it's a belter' - FRANKIE BOYLE'A set text for all of us in 2023' - DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITEA summary of my book:1. I'm dia ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path. _______ 'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer 'A thrill to read. The nature writi ...Show more
The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals Observations from a Family Farm by Rosamund Young
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Be transported to the wild meadows of Kite's Nest Farm and peek into the surprising private lives of some of our most familiar of animals. A life-enhancing read from the author of the bestselling gem The Secret Life of Cows. We talk about people behaving like sheep, which assumes that sheep all behave ...Show more
Time of My Life by Myf Warhurst
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Category: Biography and Memoir
We all have a soundtrack to our lives, songs that as soon as we hear them we're transported to a moment in time. As the youngest child, and only girl, in a family of creative types, Myf Warhurst grew up with the music in her. Whether she was watching Daryl Braithwaite on TV on a Sunday night or listenin ...Show more
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Anniversary Edition
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' S ...Show more
Triple Helix: My donor-conceived story by Lauren Burns
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The compelling story of one woman's journey to find out the truth about her paternity-and to come to grips with the rewriting of her own history and sense of identity.'Now you're over twenty-one and back from overseas, I've decided it's time to tell you something.'When Lauren Burns learns she is donor c ...Show more
Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller by Mitch Albom
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more
Unmasked: A Memoir (Andrew Lloyd Webber) by Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre." One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd W ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Unreliable Memoirs
'I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment, that did not affect me.' In the first instalment of Clive James's memoirs, we meet the young Clive, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various relatives a ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the ne ...Show more