Madness, Mayhem and Motherhood by Nikki McWatters
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
At 26, Nikki found herself knocking on her best friend's door with a suitcase, a jar of coins and two little boys - all she had in the world. Madness, Mayhem and Motherhoodis her funny, sad and brutally candid account of her life through poverty, homelessness, child-rearing, friendships, lust, love and ...Show more
Madness: a Memoir by Kate Richards
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize. It's not every day you get to admit you're mad.The thing with psychosis is that when I'm sick I believe the delusional stuff to the same degree that you migh ...Show more
Magic by Jan Golembiewski
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I couldn't put it down.' Sofie LagunaThis is a true story. A young man heads off on a journey to find out if magic still exists in the world, to know its wonder, and to see if it might save him when his own life is unexpectedly at stake.In the Caribbean, he meets a Rastafarian Don Juan who teaches him ...Show more
Maid - Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. 'My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.' As a struggling single m ...Show more
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019. BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. 'My d ...Show more
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others
Make it Meaningful: Finding Purpose in Life and Work by Debbie Haski-Leventhal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Unorthodox meets Start with Why: how escaping a cult led Debbie Haski-Leventhal to become a ‘professor of purpose’ and master the art of finding personal meaning in life. When she was five, tragedy prompted her parents to join Kabbalah, a cult-like sect of Judaism. They immersed themselves in it unrese ...Show more
Malachy: A father's story of love, laughter and loss by Dominic Frawley
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A single moment has the power to change any life, forever. This is a story about what happens next.On 1st March 1999, Dom Frawley was a rural general practitioner, providing medical care to a few hundred families through a small cottage practice. He and his wife Maggie were due to deliver their fourth c ...Show more
Mala's Cat by Mala Kacenberg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A remarkable holocaust memoir about an unlikely friendship between a young girl and a stray cat and survival against the odds. Alone in a forest with only a cat for company, this is the deeply moving true story of one little girl's remarkable survival in the shadow of the Holocaust. Twelve-year-old Mala ...Show more
Mala's Cat by Mala Kacenberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A moving Holocaust memoir about the unlikely friendship between a young Jewish girl and a stray cat and their survival against the odds. Growing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod on the fringes of a deep pine forest, gives Mala the happiest childhood she could have hoped for. But, as the German inv ...Show more
Mama's Boy: A Memoir by Dustin Lance Black
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'To outsiders, my mom and I should have been enemies. Our house should have been divided -- North vs South, red vs blue, conservative vs progressive, or however you want to put it. Instead, my mom and I fuelled each other. Her oil lit my lamp, and eventually mine lit hers. The tools I'd learned to wiel ...Show more
Mama's Boy - A Memoir by Dustin Lance Black
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful, unflinching, funny, sad, triumphant . . . everything. And both a warning and a hope for the times to come' STEPHEN FRY Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn ...Show more