This book has everything readers want from a memoir. Lucy Bloom shares her experiences with humour and realness. You feel as if you’re experiencing these things right alongside her. Lucy proves that anyone can lead an extraordinary life.
How a journey through three contintents, with a kayak, changed a climatewarrior
“It echoed around my head. The carbon wing blade flexed in the water as I thrust like a man possessed. Past the point of no return, I was above the log jam. A broken blade, maybe even a missed stroke and that could be my last. The river was rough, it was ugly and I was bouncing like a cork.” Lovers of adventure will thrill at the task Steve ......
When Australian Mark Heyward decides to build a home and raise a family on the island of Lombok, east of Bali, he has little idea of what is to come. Riots and battles, mythical princesses, magical voyages, birth and death, love and loss – the story takes us into the heart of Indonesia.
A Stigma-Free Guide to Living a Calmer, Happier Life with Borderline Per
Drawing on the author's lived experience, this hopeful guide offers advice on everyday life with BPD. Covering what BPD is, how to talk about it, and how to get support, it includes practical coping tips and DBT-based techniques, while also tackling the stigma and negative stereotypes associated with the disorder.
Named "a genius if there ever was one", Czech refugee Alex Jelinek created Australias 1957 House of the Year in the city of Canberra. This is the story of the house as a home - how it came to be designed, built, and lived in.
An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican-American in 1970s Los Angeles through his rise in the glam rock and punk rock scenes.
Kid Congo Powers has been described as a "legendary guitarist and paragon of cool" with "the greatest ......
Thirty-Thousand Steps is a powerful and transformative memoir that interweaves the author's obsessive training to becoming a distance runner, along with her singular, focused research into the science of addiction in the shadow of grief after the death of her brother.
The Autobiography of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and composer, Lee Thompson, perhaps best-known as one of the founding members of English ska band Madness.
An act of terrorism against women that ended with the death of a man. Murder on His Mind details the events of 16 July 2001 when security guard Steve Rogers was shot dead inside Melbourne’s Fertility Control Clinic. The Crown Prosecutor described the gunman as having gone to the clinic with ‘murder on his mind’. ‘Allanson depicts with stark ......
