Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse by Paul Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Non-fiction
A take no prisoners' approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization, and reason.
John Olsen by Darleen Bungey
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This landmark biography by Darleen Bungey, the author of the celebrated biography of Arthur Boyd, graphically depicts the forces that drove John Olsen to become one of the country's greatest artists. An exhilarating book, both trenchant and tender, it strips away the veneer of showmanship and fame to sh ...Show more
Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There by Paul Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The author of Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs shares more hugely entertaining stories of his seriously crazy, sometimes terrifying, always hilarious adventures Paul Carter is still, well . . . Paul Carter. He's still risking his life performing daredevil acts like trying to break speed records on un ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. A ...Show more
Stars over Shiralee: A Sheryl McCorry Memoir 2 by Sheryl McCorry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Sheryl McCorry's memoir Diamonds and Dust was a runaway bestseller in 2007. Now, in Stars over Shiralee, Sheryl brings her story up to date, picking up from the death of her husband Bob McCorry. Having moved from the Kimberley to a property called the Shiralee, Sheryl is rocked by the death of her ex-hu ...Show more
Women of a Certain Age by Jodie Moffat
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Anne Aly, Liz Byrski, Sarah Drummond, Mehreen Faruqi, Goldie Goldbloom, Krissy Kneen, Jeanine Leane, Brigid Lowry and Pat Torres are among fifteen voices recounting what it is like to be a woman on the other side of 40. These are stories of identity and survival, and a celebration of getting older and w ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more
Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Nungar
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jig ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...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