All posts tagged "memoir"
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140Books & LiteratureBook Review: Broken: In the Best Possible Way, by Jenny Lawson
MEMOIR: A treat for Jenny Lawson's already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter.
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249Books & LiteratureBook Review: This Is Not a Love Song, by Amber Petty
MEMOIR: A memoir about mental health and love that intertwines the raw, personal soul-searching of a young woman with a ‘stranger-than-fiction’ psychological thriller.
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427Books & LiteratureBook Review: Acknowledgments, by Becky Lucas
COMEDY: A funny, consoling and very candid collection of stories and essays about friends, enemies and figuring it out.
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309Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Boy from Birdum: The Bill Dempsey Story, by Bill Dempsey with Steve Hawke
MEMOIR: Bill Dempsey has been a champion footballer, premiership captain, and member of the AFL’s Indigenous Team of the Century. This is his story.
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354Books & LiteratureBook Review: Unfinished, By Priyanka Chopra Jonas
MEMOIR: As a world famous actress, singer, film producer, UNICEF ambassador and women's rights activist, Priyanka Chopra Jonas's first ever memoir will empower a generation of young women.
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983Books & LiteratureBook Review: Never Grow Up, by Jackie Chan, with Zhu Mo
Superstar Jackie Chan reflects on his early life, his big breaks, his numerous brushes with death, and his life as a husband and father.
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771Books & LiteratureBook Review: In Pieces, by Sally Field
Academy Award winning actress, Sally Field, presents her long-awaited autobiography, detailing the influences and challenges of her life.
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861Books & LiteratureBook Review: Southern Discomfort, by Tena Clark
A powerful and moving memoir about a white girl coming of age in the South in the 1960s and the black woman who inspired her to forge her own path.
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739Books & LiteratureBook Review: Made in Scotland – My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country, by Billy Connolly
Comedian Billy Connolly returns to the country of his birth and upbringing, acknowledging what went before and reliving the journey that made him the man we know and love to laugh along with today.
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783Books & LiteratureBook Review: Keeping in touch with Cheryl, by Vincenzo Russo
Originally released as "Mama Mia! What a Climb!", this is the autobiography of Vincenzo Russo, from a distant Italian country town of the 1950s to present-day Adelaide, told as a series of letters to his late wife.
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698Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Extraordinary Life of Pikelet, by Calley Gibson
The memoir of a rescue dog who takes on the role of foster-brother-extraordinaire to love and help pups with an unfortunate start to the world.
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381Books & LiteratureBook Review: Shapeshifters, by Gavin Francis
A profound look into the way our bodies change, from puberty, pregnancy and gender dysphoria to anorexia and even death, using both medical knowledge and case studies.
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541Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies, by Kitty Flanagan
Comedian Kitty Flanagan recounts stories from her life in this collection of cautionary tales about childhood, hitchhiking, internet dating, relationships, yoga, travelling, and even murder!
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366Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, by Barbara Lipska
This is a moving true account of the incredible journey through mental illness and back by neuroscientist Barbara Lipska when she discovered she had three tumours on her brain.
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671Books & LiteratureBook Review: Andy Warhol A to Z: The Life of an Icon from Adman to Zeitgeist, by Steve Wide
The third encyclopedia in Steve Wide's A to Z series of celebrity biographies focuses on iconic pop artist Andy Warhol, featuring the locations, images and people of his life.
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1.1KAdelaide HillsBook Review: So What Does A Conductor Do? by Nicholas Braithwaite
An autobiography of Nicholas Braithwaite’s formative years before intricately tracing almost three-decades of his professional career, from 1963 until 1991.
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677Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Last Snake Man, by John Cann with Jimmy Thomson
Every Sunday for almost a century, John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse. This is the memoir of the last of those snake men.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Dear World, by Bana Alabed
It started with a single tweet: “I need peace.” This is the true recollection of a Syrian girl’s experience of war and her plea for peace that went viral on social media.
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654Books & LiteratureBook Review: Scrappy Little Nobody, by Anna Kendrick
The comical memoir of Academy Award-nominated actor and singer, Anna Kendrick, who recounts her social awkwardness when growing up and then becoming a star.
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597Books & LiteratureBook Review: Forever Horatio: An Actor’s Life, by Edmund Pegge
Edmund Pegge is one of those actors you've probably never heard of, but you're sure to know his face from an active film and television career that spans decades.
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