The Wasp and The Orchid: The remarkable life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode
32.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'[A] brilliant biography' Australian Women's Weekly' Undoubtedly a remarkable woman' Weekend Australian' Danielle Clode breathes life into the story of Edith Coleman... an approachable blend of biography, science, nature writing and social history.' Adelaide Advertiser In 1922, a 48-year-old housewif ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
Things Nobody Knows but Me by Amra Pajalic
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Melb based author of Good Daughter | Reading Level: 3 Biography
When she is four years old Amra Pajalic realises that her mother is different. Fatima is loving but sometimes hears strange voices that tell her to do bizarre things. She is frequently sent to hospital and Amra and her brother are passed around to family friends and foster homes, and for a time live wit ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times 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. I ...Show more
You've Got To Be Kidding: a shedload of wine & a farm full of goats by Todd Alexander
29.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The steep-climb highs and free-fall lows of my rollercoaster rural life They say it takes 10,000 hours to master a new skill. Well, seven years (60,000 hours) since former city boys Todd and Jeff moved to the country they should have nailed this whole farming gig, right? Yes, they make lovely wine and ...Show more
34 Patients by Tom Templeton
31.50 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Look at the people around you. Now look closer.Is the middle-aged man right to be worried about the twinge in his chest?Why is the little girl coughing? Asthma - or something more serious?And what secret hurts are you carrying yourself?Doctors know our deepest fears, our private worries and our most vul ...Show more
A Bloody Good Rant: My Passions, Memories and Demons by Thomas Keneally
37.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him. 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren ...Show more
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
34.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Raw and radical, unfamiliar and beguiling - a journey through Britain's breathtaking flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories contained in those landscapes. Noreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their stark beauty, their formidable calm, their refusal to cooper ...Show more
A Life of Extremes - The Life and Times of a Polar Filmmaker by Max Quinn
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Category: Travel Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Max Quinn's filmmaking career has taken him to the ends of the earth; from his native New Zealand to Alaska; Antarctica to the Arctic. A Life of Extremes is a personal account of his travel and work in these remote locations. It focuses on Max's polar filmmaking experiences, which started in 1991 when h ...Show more
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree: A Sequel to "Driving Over Lemons" by Chris Stewart
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Lemons Trilogy
Chris Stewart's "Driving Over Lemons" (9780956003805) told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller. "A Parrot in the Pepper Tree", the sequel to "Lemons", fol ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
49.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
A Sharp Left Turn - Notes on a life in music, from Split Enz to Play It Strange by Mike Chunn
37.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A rollicking yarn about the early days of ground-breaking band Split Enz, but also the powerful story of how Mike Chunn dealt with a crippling mental health issue and went on to become one of our most influential music identities. This is a gripping read that works on several levels. It's the sliding-do ...Show more