Mother and I: the history of a wilful family by Ianto Ware
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Highly Commended, National Biography Award, 2022'If only all memoirs were like this: tautly written, droll yet poignant, vividly rendered, historically aware ... Ware brings his mother and their relationship to life with tender detachment, sharp detail and such attentiveness to her inner life that one m ...Show more
Motherland: What I've Learnt about Parenthood, Race and Identity by Priya Joi
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Category: Biography
A powerful memoir exploring race and motherhood A thought-provoking and nuanced memoir on motherhood, race and identityM(other)land will be a powerful response to the absence of an inclusive and accessible blueprint for navigating life as a multi-faceted mother. Joi will interrogate this silence, provid ...Show more
Motherlands: In Search of Our Inherited Cities by Amaryllis Gacioppo
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Category: Biography
Our creation stories begin with the notion of expulsion from our 'original' home. We spend our lives struggling to return to the place we fit in, the body we belong in, the people that understand us, the life we were meant for. But the places we remember are ever-changing, and ever since we left, they c ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
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Category: Biography
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer'A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid, shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind.' - William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious of course - but don't let the self-ribbing fool you; thi ...Show more
Mothertongues by Eliza Bell & Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A genre-defying, collaborative marvel that brings the absurdity of motherhood to the page. After sharing their artistic frustrations at the school gate, Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell decide to take a risk- to co-write a book about early motherhood. Off-colour, offbeat, off their heads, they begin - but ...Show more
Motherwell - A Girlhood by Deborah Orr
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Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer'A masterpiece' Andrew O'Hagan, Guardian'Completely amazing' Lucy Mangan, Stylist'A modern classic' Daily Mail'Raw, compelling, wise and tender' Dolly Alde ...Show more
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings by Saumya Roy
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Category: Biography
A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.
Mountains Beyond Mountains: One Doctor's Quest to Heal the World by Tracy Kidder
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Category: Biography
Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, as the charismatic but flawed genius Dr Paul Farmer challenges widely-held preconceptions about poverty and healthcare. As a medical student, Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious disea ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
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Category: Biography
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time. 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' - The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 The power of language, discussed beautifully in Toni Morrison's ...Show more
Mr. Know-It-All by John Waters
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Category: Biography
No one knows more about everything--especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling--than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos,Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world's great ...Show more
Mr Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters
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Category: Biography
No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world's gr ...Show more
Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail by Wil Patterson
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Category: Biography
Wil Patterson was your everyday working husband and father, trying to keep up with the latest car, house and toys for his family. Always one to make light of things, he nevertheless became increasingly desperate about how he was going to pay his bills. One day while at work at his insurance job, he came ...Show more