Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed-toy collect ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: The Boy from Nowhere by Andrew Rule
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The inspirational, bestselling story of the rags to riches life of Kerry Stokes. Kerry Stokes is a remarkable Australian. Not because he is one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful people, but because of what he overcame to get there and because he has endured when others didn't. His success and ...Show more
The Anxiety Book: A True Story of Phobias, Flashbacks and Freak-Outs and How I Got My Inner Calm Back by Elisa Black
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Since journalist Elisa Black wrote an article about her lifelong struggle with anxiety in March 2015, it has been read by hundreds of thousands of people. Clearly, what Elisa had to say found a readership far bigger than she could have expected - and with millions of Australians suffering from anxiety, ...Show more
Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General by Quentin Bryce
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even mo ...Show more
Man Called Yarra by Stan Yarramunua
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
oI'm a Wathaurong man. I'm an artist who draws on life in this big red and yellow and black country.oStan oYarrao Yarramunua- artist, musician, actor, social worker, businessman.From growing up in poverty in Swan Hill - and sometimes on the road, with his itinerant father - Yarra had a tumultuous and of ...Show more
Real Chopper: The Man Behind the Legend, Inside and Out by Adam Shand
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Criminal, murderer, raconteur, author ...mythmaker? Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is undoubtedly Australia's best-known criminal. Author of many bestselling books about the underworld he inhabited, and subject of a smash-hit film, his story has become part of the country's culture. And Read certainly knew ...Show more
Big Love: Reclaiming myself, my people, my country by Brooke Blurton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities My story is about the one thing that I never went without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like there was a future for me. The kin ...Show more
City Girl, Country Girl: The inspiring true stories of courageous women forging new lives in the Australian bush by Liz Harfull
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'I'm sitting down to write the opening lines of this book a year to the day since my mum died. She is constantly in my thoughts, not just because I miss her terribly, but because she was the inspiration for this collection of stories about women who have come from very different places to make a new lif ...Show more
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey through Memory by Mark Raphael Baker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
What right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; it is the story of a son who enters his parents' memories and, inside the darkness, fin ...Show more
Heart of Australia: A Celebration of Community Spirit by Nick Rains
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Nick Rains has photographed people and places across Australia for over 35 years, and in that time he's met people from many different walks of life - people living in remote or rural communities, coastal or urban dwellers, Indigenous Australians, battlers or those who are just plain strange. But the pe ...Show more
Kate Kelly: The True Story of Ned Kelly's Little Sister by Rebecca Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Kate Kelly has always been overshadowed by her famous brother Ned, but the talented young woman was a popular public figure in her own right. This moving biography tells her astonishing story in full for the first time.Kate Kelly, the daring sister of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly, was mysteriously fou ...Show more
Women of the Land: Eight rural women and their remarkable everyday lives by Liz Harfull
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Making your living from the land in Australia is not for the faint-hearted. Isolation, hard physical work, long hours and the vagaries of drought, floods and fire make it a challenging environment for any farmer. But how do you cope when you are a woman in what is traditionally a man's world? Women of t ...Show more