The Lotus Eaters by Emily Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Since childhood, Emily Clements' sense of self had always been shaped by the opinions of others and her need to be liked. When a stand-off with her best friend sees nineteen-year-old Emily stranded in Vietnam, she is alone for the first time and adrift in a new environment. With seemingly nothing to l ...Show more
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-cha ...Show more
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics/Current Affairs
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This debut from a former Queensland judge's associate breaks the silence around sexual assault and all the ways Australia's court system tries to silence victims. If you're wondering why Australia's #metoo movement hasn't g ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
$14.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. "Opium!" De Quincey wrote. "Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further: how unmeaning ...Show more
Boy: Popular Penguins by Roald Dahl
$14.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Korean edition of Boy by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake, translated by Jeong Hwoi Seong. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition by Anthony Bourdain
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bou ...Show more
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem ...Show more
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year la ...Show more
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General)
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secon ...Show more
A Mother's Story by Rosie Batty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Anderson murdered his 11-year-old son Luke and was then shot by police at the Tyabb cricket oval. Rosie ...Show more
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General) | Reading Level: very good
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age o ...Show more