This is Gail by Gail O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An inspiring story of one woman's journey through heartbreaking loss to renewal and new purpose. In 2008, inspirational surgeon and Lifehouse cancer centre founder Chris O'Brien published his bestselling memoir of his battle with brain cancer, NEVER SAY DIE. But he wasn't the only person in the O'Brien ...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
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...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
Aussie Ark by Tim Faulkner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Tim Faulkner's battle to save Australia's threatened wildlife - a fully illustrated biography featuring stories and lessons from a remarkable life on the frontline of animal conservation. From the time he was old enough to focus on an object, Tim Faulkner has had his eyes glued on things that slither, c ...Show more
Outback Midwife by Beth McRae
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Call the Midwifemeets In the Middle of Nowherein this heartwarming memoir of an adventurous Aussie midwife's life 'catching babies'. Outback Midwifeis the story of Beth McRae's 40 years as a midwife, from her terrifying first day witnessing a birth as a na've student nurse to her training as a midwife ...Show more
An Outback Nurse by Thea Hayes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Thea Hayes trained as a Nurse in Sydney in 1959. A year later she was catapulted out of the safety of her city life into the unknown world of the Outback.Thea knew nothing of the place she was soon to call home, Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, the second largest property in the world under ...Show more
Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Anita Heiss, successful author and passionate campaigner for Aboriginal literacy, was born a member of the Wiradjuri nati ...Show more
Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Twenty-five years ago, a young curator of mammals from the Australian Museum in Sydney set out to research the fauna of the Pacific Islands. Starting with a survey of one of the most inaccessible islands in Melanesia - Woodlark, in the Trobriands Group - that young scientist found himself ghost-whisperi ...Show more
The Fictional Woman by Tara Moss
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Tara Moss has worn many labels in her time, including "author," "model," "gold-digger," "commentator," "inspiration," "dumb blonde," "feminist," and "mother," among many others. Now, in her first work of non-fiction, she blends memoir and social analysis to examine the common fictions about women. She ...Show more
Heartlines : The Year I Met My Mother by Susannah McFarlane
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is what happened the year I met my other mother. In 1965, Robin, unmarried and pregnant, comes to Melbourne to give birth and give her baby up for adoption, then returns to Perth to resume her life having never seen her baby. After 10 days alone, the baby, is taken home, named Susannah, and made pa ...Show more
Memoirs by Mike Willesee
$44.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"After thousands of stories, a legend finally tells his own. Mike Willesee has been Australia's most revered television journalist for over fifty years. And behind the lens, a businessman, powerbroker, trailblazer and enduring enigma. Son of a minister in the Whitlam cabinet, Willesee was a football sta ...Show more