The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch; Chelsea Cain (Introduction by)
$44.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the listener through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the ...Show more
Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia by James Bell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two years old. He left behind family, good friends and the mysterious 'C.P.', a young woman with whom he hoped o ...Show more
Mixed Fancies by Brenda Blethyn
$32.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
In this funny and charming memoir, Brenda Blethyn, the star of Secrets and Lies tells her remarkable story for the first time. One of Britain's best-loved actresses, Brenda Blethyn has dazzled in a vast number of roles, including her performances as downtrodden Cynthia in Mike Leigh's Secrets and Li ...Show more
Ugly by Constance Briscoe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Constanceâs mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the girl was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When that failed, she swallowed bleach âbecause it kills ...Show more
Bart: My Life by J.B. Cummings
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
In the pantheon of Australian sporting icons, James Bartholomew Bart Cummings AM stands alongside Sir Donald Bradman. Known to his tens of thousands of fans as the Cups King, Bart is arguably Australia's greatest ever horse trainer. For over five decades he's been at the very top of his profession, yet ...Show more
Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female circumcision; running away at twelve on foot through the des ...Show more
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
$19.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Waris Dirie, whose name means "desert flower", was born in Somalia of nomadic parents. She underwent extreme female circumcision at the age of five, and when she was 13 her father sold her into marriage with a 60-year-old for five camels, at which time she ran away. She was discovered by a fashion photo ...Show more
Purple Dandelion: A Muslim Woman's Struggle Against Violence and Oppression by Farida Sultana & Shila Nair
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Purple Dandelion is the true story of Farida Sultana, an extraordinary Muslim woman and single mother. The book is a reflection of her personal journey as an unconventional child who struggled through her adulthood and married life. Being a survivor of violence and abuse, Farida emerged as a strong advo ...Show more
Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir by Margaux Fragoso
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time. At two in the afternoon, when he would come and pick me up and take me for rides; at five, when I would read to him, head on his chest; in the despair at seven p.m., when he would hold me and rub my belly for an hour; in the des ...Show more
An Angel At My Table (Janet Frame Autobiography Omnibus) by Janet Frame
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals (essentially for wanting to pursue a caree ...Show more