Outback Heroines by Sue Williams; Georgie Parker (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Horse-whispering, crocodile-hunting and single-handedly changing an 80-kilo flat tyre on a road train in 40-degree heat...there is nothing these modern-day outback women can't do. But when it comes to hardship and heartbreak, they've endured far more than their fair share. Living and working in some of ...Show more
Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Good Muslim Boy is Osamah Sami’s true depiction of his life as a young Muslim man. From his early life with his family in Iran during the Iran/Iraq war, to their migration to Australia, his tale is in turns comic and tragic, and explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love and marriage, ...Show more
Snakes and Ladders by Angela Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Angela Williams' incredible memoir of going to prison, getting out and getting clean, then the beauacratic bungle that sent her back to prison again.
How to Get There by Maggie MacKellar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
After Maggie Mackellar's acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of settling there. In 2011 Maggie Mackellar moved from her family's farm in Central West New South Wales to the east coast ...Show more
Fabulous Fred: The Strife & Times of Fred Cook by Paul Amy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Fred Cook is one of the great Melbourne stories that combines the life of a true legend of football with exploits of true crime! Fred was a champion footballer who started his career with Footscray in the VFL and then went to Port Melbourne where, in the 1970s he enjoyed fame akin to a pop star. He was ...Show more
Warren Mundine in Black and White: A great, untold Australian story by Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Overcoming segregation, discrimination, personal hardship and political betrayal - Nyunggai Warren Mundine tells it all in black and white. Warren 's raw, intimate success story shines a bright and inspiring light showing there is no limit to what you can achieve. His curriculum vitae runs into pages of ...Show more
Two Cultures, One Story by Robert Isaacs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'I stood at the school gates with nothing but the clothes on my back. I had no money, no family, no home — nothing to show for the past 16 years except my cheap cardboard suitcase and a reasonable grasp of reading, writing and arithmetic … I didn't know what I was going to do next, but I knew that whate ...Show more
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