My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag by Michelle Brasier
Category: 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
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
Category: Memoir
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
Category: Memoir
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
Sassafras: A memoir of love, loss and MDMA therapy by Rebecca Huntley
Category: 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 Salt Path by Raynor Winn; Angela Harding
Category: 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 Happiest Refugee: My Journey from Tragedy to Comedy by Anh Do
Category: Memoir
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days - could ...Show more
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn; Angela Harding
Category: 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
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
Category: Memoir
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis by J. D. Vance
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Am ...Show more
The Outside: Cheating Death, Chasing Waves and Growing Up in One of Australia’s Most Notorious Crime Families by Larry Blair and Jeremy Goring
Category: Memoir
Larry Blair shot to fame at barely 20 years of age when he became a double-winner of Hawaii’s Pipeline Masters – the biggest and most dangerous prize in surfing. He became a household name, appearing in soapies, on milk cartons and in TV ads for Levi’s and Coke. But Larry was harbouring the deadliest ...Show more
For Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying – and Flying by Ailsa Piper
Category: 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
Enough by Jana Pittman
Category: Memoir
Jana writes just as she speaks: with honesty, conviction and humour, making her path to self-acceptance relatable for all of us. It took oodles of self-reflection before I came to realise my quirks developed into my resilience, my emotion gave me my empathy and my drama fuelled my passion. Too often I t ...Show more