Grief is for People: A Memoir by Sloane Crosley
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. Potent and propulsive, a lyrical meditation on loss and what comes after - TARA WESTOVER For most of her adult life, Sloane and Russell worked together and played together ...Show more
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal. How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and Baby home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up in an ...Show more
How to Avoid a Happy Life by Julia Lawrinson
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From domestic dysfunction to extraordinary bad luck, Julia Lawrinson reflects on her intriguing and eventful life with disarming honesty and wit. Some people are born into bad situations, some people have bad situations thrust upon them, and some people find bad situations through their dodgy choices, l ...Show more
Carson Mccullers - A Life by Mary V. Dearborn
$80.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America's greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journalsV. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance . . . Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to e ...Show more
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face To Face With The Idea Of An Afterlife by Sebastian Junger
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ...Show more
Cocktails with George and Martha - Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary
An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbreaking film it became, and how two iconic stars changed the image of marriage forever. From its debut in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild success and a cultural lightning rod. ...Show more
The Long Goodbye: Lessons on humanity from the grips of Alzheimer's by Keri Kitay
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
A powerful mix of memoir and hard-earned knowledge, in The Long Goodbye, Keri Kitay charts her family's poignant and devastating journey after their mother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. When Keri Kitay's mother, Terry, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, nothing cou ...Show more
BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette * From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick, a poignant, funny, and emotionally satisfying memoir about Christie Tate’s lifelong struggle to s ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a s ...Show more
Love, Death & Other Scenes by Nova Weetman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
Hope by Rosie Batty
$36.00 AUD
Category: Australian
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...Show more