Under a Bilari Tree I Born by Bilari Smith Alice
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Alice Bilari Smith lived in the Pilbara, on stations and in the bush, on government reserves and in towns. Narrowly avoiding removal from her family by 'the Welfare', life on the stations taught her to cook and launder, sew and clean, shoe horses, chop wood and milk cows. As a young married woman she ad ...Show more
Living in Hope by Frank Byrne; Frances Coughlan; Gerard Waterford
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Book one in the Inland Writers-short reads from the Centre of Australia. The killing times were barely over in the Kimberley. What I knew, even as a small boy, was that no-one argued with a whitefella. People talked in whispers. I was still so small. This is the story of the early years of my life. The ...Show more
Challenge Accepted! by Celeste Barber
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted is a hilarious and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas and how to rock a sexy scar. It's real, like totally, really real. Actor, writer and comedian, Celeste Barber is one very funny woman - not to ment ...Show more
Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two ...Show more
Good Morning, Mr Sarra by Chris Sarra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"When Chris Sarra arrived as the first Aboriginal principal of Cherbourg State School, it was a time of high hopes but low expectations in Indigenous education. Over six years, he transformed the school into a national success story. Along the way, he battled the media, the education system and a cultur ...Show more
The Villain Edit: A Memoir About Reality TV and Taking Control of the Narrative by Alisha Aitken-Radburn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A memoir about identity and authenticity in the smoke-and-mirror worlds of politics, reality TV and social media, from Bachelor star Alisha Aitken-Radburn. When former government staffer Alisha Aitken-Radburn was given a 'villain edit' on her first season of The Bachelor, she wasn't entirely surprised-a ...Show more
The Secret by Alexandra Smith
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Gladys Berejiklian was Australia's rockstar premier. The first woman to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with grace and a steady hand. To many Australians, she was 'The Woman Who Saved Australia' for the way in which she navigate ...Show more
Under Her Skin: The Life and Work of Professor Fiona Wood AM, National Living Treasure by Sue Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The remarkable story of Professor Fiona Wood AM, world-leading burns specialist and one of Australia's most innovative and respected surgeons, whose ground-breaking research and technology development has changed the lives of burns patients. When three bombs tore out the heart of Bali and destroyed so m ...Show more
Ugly: My Memoir by Robert Hoge
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
Robert Hoge was born with a giant tumour on his forehead, severely distorted facial features and legs that were twisted and useless. His mother refused to look at her son, let alone bring him home. But home he went, to a life that, against the odds, was filled with joy, optimism and boyhood naughtiness. ...Show more
It’s a Shame About Ray: A Memoir by Jonathan Seidler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY is an extraordinary and powerful memoir about family, love and the power of music. What tracks combine to make a family album? What do we carry from one generation to a next? What is the difference between leaning on and letting go? Blackly funny and frequently devastating, this m ...Show more
Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more