Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo. Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-s ...Show more
Still Smiling by June Dally-Watkins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'Still Smiling' is the moving account of an illegitimate girl's amazing journey from country New South Wales, to a romance with Gregory Peck off the set of 'Roman Holiday', to being one of Australia's most celebrated business-women. This special Diamond Anniversary edition biography, 'Still Smiling', is ...Show more
The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir (HB) by Anh Do
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days - could ...Show more
Growing up in Adelaide in the 1950s by Susan Blackburn (ed.)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
‘Growing up in the fifties was a time of isolation and innocence. We didn’t know what was going on in the rest of the world. We could only compare ourselves with those around us.’ So writes Max Lees in his reminiscence, ‘Freedom’, one of the 13 contributions to this delightful evocation of childhood edi ...Show more
Bush Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. They patch people up and keep them alive while waiting for the doctor to arrive, they drive the ambulances, operate the clinics and deliver the babies. They are on call around the clock and there are no days off. All th ...Show more
Hard Times by Jack Mercer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the spirit of A B Facey's 'A Fortunate Life', Jack Mercer's 'Hard Times' is the true story of the author's amazing adventures. In 1911, growing up in an Ararat pub, he faces the terror of a violent stepfather and a mother who barely acknowledges his existence. But one thing keeps him sane: a plan to ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man by Margaret Simons
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Plucked from an orphanage as an infant, Kerry Stokes grew up in the slums and streets of post-Depression Melbourne with his itinerant, adoptive parents. As a boy he trapped, skinned and sold rabbits to make ends meet, and seemed destined to a life of hardship and poverty. Today Stokes is one of Australi ...Show more
Boganaire: the rise and fall of Nathan Tinkler by Paddy Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
Hunter Valley electrician Nathan Tinkler borrowed big to turn a fortune from a speculative coal play, bursting onto the rich list in 2008 and quickly becoming Australia's youngest billionaire at the age of 35. Tinkler was emblem of both Australia's new aspirational classes and its once-in-a-generation r ...Show more
Was it Something I Said? : Misadventures in Suburbia by Ros Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Whether writing about her foiled attempt to seduce her husband, the homesick Irishman she found on the beach or why dog-people and cat-people can never be friends, Ros Thomas does so with the kind of humour and clarity that keeps her readers coming back week after week. These stories are for anyone who ...Show more
Run for Your Life by Jill Joliffe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Forced into adoption and taken in by a violent household, the course of Jill Jolliffe's life was set before she had time to choose. She ran away as a teen and has been running ever since. Jolliffe became a thorn in the establishment's side and earned herself a hefty ASIO file in the process. Following h ...Show more
SAS Insider: An Elite SAS Fighter on Life in Australia's Toughest and Most Secretive Combat Unit by Clint Palmer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS. As a bus ...Show more
ASBESTOS HOUSE by HAIGH GIDEON
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century- asbestos. Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie built itself ...Show more