From the cobbled streets of Macclesfield, Cheshire to the golden sandy beaches of the New South Wales south coast, this memoir charts the life of Annie Gidman.
Orphaned at four, growing up at a time when the stigma of illegitimacy was lifelong, divorce scandalous, and cruelty in the home left to take its course, my mother confessed her shameful origins to her children only when she was in her sixties.
Our modern-day version of an old quotation ';variety is the spice of life' is a fitting description of Jacqueline Lonsdale Cuerton's life story to date.
';Pumpkin is a sociological study rather a case study, with all the warmth of the human experience of one family, and especially of one girl growing up in that family' Betsy Wearing PhD';This is a truly beautiful book, a post-war coming of age Sydney memoirat a time of great societal changerich in metaphor and life wisdom, very much of its time; lyrical, poetic, sometimes serious, sometimes sad and laugh-out-loud funnycomplex, understated, warm-hearteda highly religious, innocent, left-handed, nerdy girl growing up on Sydney's Lower North Shore, in a non-affluent, stable and loving home.
An uplifting, heartfelt memoir about surviving life's upheavals - and how to live authenticallyBreaking up isn t a conscious decision, it s more of a revelation In the first few moments after waking each day I needed to remind myself who I was and what had happened.
The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering warKate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade.
Watercare engineer Ian Winson was seriously injured in a gas explosion in Onehunga, Auckland, in 2011, an incident that was a significant news event at the time.
From gifted and unorthodox doctor, to wife-beating bully, to Star Wars bounty hunter, one thing Temuera Morrison can't be accused of is being typecast.
Filled with Americana that is folksy, funny, and at times heartbreaking, Barefoot Missouri Days is filled with a sense of wonder and a wry wit as Baylis Glascock explains his bafflement with all things sexual and his equal confusion over racial, ethnic, and economic disparity, realities that he treats with sensitivity.
Like the lost Angelenos who sprang to life in his imagination, George Hatcher grew out of the competitive barrios of East Los Angeles and lives at least two lifetimes before his twentieth birthday.
Six weeks into a blissful honeymoon, life turns into a nightmare when Susan's 9-year-old daughter is taken away and her husband is falsely accused of child sexual abuse.
Bonny Meyer, co-founder and wife of wine legend Justin Meyer, provides an intimate portrayal of the love affair that infused Silver Oak's magical Cabernet.
In his youth, when Richard Bank entered his grandparents' bedroom, he would be drawn to a photograph of his grandfather as a young man standing side by side his brother with both accoutered in WWI German military uniforms.
This is the true story of a young, native Irish woman who embarked on a path of most resistance and danced/survived her way around seven different countries.
