Love, Death & Other Scenes by Nova Weetman
Category: Memoir
How do we become more after losing? Beloved Australian author Nova Weetman shares her heartfelt experiences with grief and loss while also celebrating the profound beauty of love and life. Nova Weetman's unforgettable memoir reflects on experiences of love and loss from throughout her life, including- ...Show more
Ask Jules: Love yourself and live your dream by Jules Robinson
Category: Memoir
Get ready to transform your life with honest, first-hand advice from the beloved TV personality, entrepreneur, wife and mother. Since finding love on Married at First Sight, Jules Robinson has had a whirlwind five years – she got married (for real), had a baby, and became a purpose-driven entrepreneur ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
Category: Memoir
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
Category: 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
Shades of Me: My Many Lives Through Many Dreamings by Mel Brown
Category: Memoir
Melinda Brown (Ngunnawal woman) shares the story of discovering her heritage and how the journey to understand her culture gave her the strength to find her place in the world. Mel Brown is an Australian Aboriginal Ngunnawal woman. This is her story. Growing up white, Mel always felt that there ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
Category: Memoir
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 pr ...Show more
Elle by Elle Macpherson
Category: Memoir
Stories, memories and life lessons from an Australian icon I have learned that love is what really matters… My life experiences brought about that discovery. I deeply wish that you learn unconditional love, firstly of yourself, then of others, then of life itself. It’s your true nature. In the dazzlin ...Show more
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
Category: Memoir
From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY'Full of tenderness and beauty. This book is a revelation and a rest ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Category: Memoir
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
A Very French Affair by Maria Hoyle
Category: Memoir
A transcontinental, romantic memoir in the vein of A Year in Provence and Eat, Pray, Love. What do you say when a man you've dated a handful of times asks you to go live with him in a mill by a river in France? The obvious answer is: 'Are you out of your mind?' Maria Hoyle's was: 'Okay.' At the age of ...Show more
Life, Camera, Action by Mitchell Burns
Category: Memoir
It took ten years in the coal mines for Mitchell Burns to realise that no pay cheque is worth sacrificing your dreams. Now he’s making up for lost time. Mitchell Burns never wanted to be a miner. Growing up in a Queensland coal mining town with parents in the industry, it never felt like pursuing his p ...Show more
Forged in Fire: An Australian commando's story of life and death on the frontline. by Scott Ryder
Category: Memoir
Forged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the Australian commandos. Frankly written, with self-deprecating humour, Forged in Fire reveals the qualities of strength and mental resilience that characterise special forces operators.