Fourteen: My Year of Darkness, and the Light that Followed by Shannon Molloy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Fourteen is this generation's Holding the Man - a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man's search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regio ...Show more
Albanese: Telling It Straight by Karen Middleton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Anthony Albanese has been at the heart of Labor politics in Australia for a decade. For the previous decade he persistently worked to ensure that the Labor left was a vital part of all ALP activities. This is his story. The turbulent years of federal politics with a deeply personal dimension, this is th ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again! When Kate ...Show more
Everything to Live For: The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt by Turia Pitt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: General Adult
In September 2011, Turia Pitt, a beautiful 25-year-old mining engineer working her dream job in the far north of Western Australia, entered an ultra-marathon race that would change her life forever. Trapped by a fire in a gorge in the remote Kimberly region, Turia and five other competitors had nowhere ...Show more
Son of the Brush: A memoir by Tim Olsen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family by Gabrielle Carey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets. As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan's childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter sets in motion a literary pilgrimage that reveals long-buried family secrets. Like her mother, Stow had gro ...Show more
Our House is Certainly Not in Paris by Susan Cutsforth
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Sequel to the bestselling 'Our House is Not in Paris'. Join for the first time, or continue to share in this sequel, the French renovee trials and triumphs of Susan and Stuart Cutsforth, an 'ordinary' Australian couple. Our House is Certainly Not in Paris is a magical memoir about their renovation of an ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Great Australian Stories
Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES. 'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...' Boasting the biggest beat ...Show more
Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia by Allen, Max
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The fiery burn of rebellion rum, a thirst-quenching gulp of ice-cold beer, the medicinal tang of restorative bitters... What did the drinks that shaped Australia first taste like? In search of answers, award-winning writer Max Allen takes us on a personal journey through Australia's colourful and comple ...Show more
Best Foot Forward by Adam Hills
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
*The Sunday Times Bestseller* A hilarious and honest collection of stories, thoughts, and tales of a life in comedy from the presenter of The Last Leg, Adam Hills Adam Hills is one the UK's best-loved comedians. For thirty years he has been performing stand-up, hosting TV shows and winning the hearts of ...Show more
The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
On 2 September 2008, in a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second decision that would change his life. His display of extraordinary courage that day saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the first Australian to receive our highest award for braver ...Show more
Twinning It!: Dance, Acro, Friendship, YouTube & Living Life to the Fullest by Sam Rybka, Teagan Rybka
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Youtube acro sensations, Sam & Teagan Rybka (aka The Rybka Twins) share their story so far, along with their best tips for balancing friendship, success, fitness and family.