All for My Children by Sally Faulkner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
On Saturday, 9 May 2015, Sally Faulkner hugged her children as they left for a three-week holiday to Beirut with their father, Ali Elamine. Though Sally and Ali were separated, custody of two-year-old Noah and four-year-old Lahela had never been an issue. The kids lived with Sally in Australia and their ...Show more
The Cost of Bravery by Allan Sparkes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'I was Humpty Dumpty at the bottom of the wall, my heart and the very soul of me shattered into a thousand pieces. I knew that my life was never going to be the same again. I also knew that if I did not get professional help, I'd soon be dead.' Allan Sparkes didn't think twice about rescuing an 11-year- ...Show more
Reservoir Dad by Clint Greagen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'If David Sedaris had got married and had kids, he would have been Reservoir Dad. Fall-on-the-floor funny, sharp, witty and just a little bit sexy...' Best Australian Blog 2013 judge Kerri Sackville sums up the feelings of the legions of fans of Reservoir Dad, aka Clint Greagen, a stay-at-home dad who t ...Show more
Love Your Sister by Samuel Johnson, Connie Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE SISTER HAS LEFT AN ASTONISHING LEGACY. THIS IS HER AND SAM'S STORY.Born a year apart, Connie and Samuel Johnson have always been close. Faced with the devastating news that they would soon be separated forever, they made a decision.After already surviving cancer twice in her young ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier - a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the Daintree coast of far north Queensland, where he was adopted by the local Aborigines for 17 years - as a full member of the tribe, and had a family. He was then in effect kidnapped and returned to Franc ...Show more
Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Tony Kelly, Rebecca Lister
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When Rebecca Lister and Tony Kelly move from Melbourne to Mount Isa to care for Rebecca's elderly mother, Diana, they have no idea what they've signed up for. The isolation, sweltering heat and limited employment opportunities make settling into the mining town a challenge. While Rebecca deals with her ...Show more
Unlike the Heart: A Story of Brain and Mind PB by Nicola Redhouse
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 3
What is a mind? How can its ills be treated when it resides in a body and in a life? With the birth of Nicola Redhouse's first child comes an unrelenting anxiety that quickly overwhelms her. As immense as her love for her children is, it can't protect her from the dread that prevents her from leaving th ...Show more
Nora Heysen: A Portrait by Anne-Louise Willoughby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Hahndorf artist Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and Australia's first female painter to be appointed as an official war artist. A portraitist and a flower painter, Nora Heysen's life was defined by an all-consuming drive to draw and paint. In 1989, aged 78, Nora re-emerged on ...Show more
The Leading Edge: Innovation, Technology and People in Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service by Stephen Langford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The advent of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in the 1930s was a testimony to Australian innovation and ingenuity. Much as been written about the early history of this iconic organisation, adapting aircraft and pedal radios to meet the needs of people in vast remote areas. In this book, Dr Stephen Langf ...Show more
The Sunday Story Club by Kerry Cue; Doris Brett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cry. But the salons have given me the opportunity to look back and think about my life . . . I don't talk to anyone about these feelings outside of the salon.' A book club without books. A key to the stories we all carry within us - wrenching, redemptive, extraordinary, lace ...Show more
King of the Australian Coast by Marsden Hordern
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Phillip Parker King has been described as the greatest of Australia s early marine surveyors. But while the achievements of Cook and Flinders are widely known, this is the first telling of King s story.Unlike Cook and Flinders, King was Australian-born--the son of Philip Gidley King, governor of New So ...Show more
George Clooney's Haircut and Other Cries for Help by Richard Glover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Richard Glover s deeply skewed stories of everyday life are heard each week on ABC radio s 'Thank God It s Friday'. He creates a world which is both weird and wry--a world in which Henry VIII provides marriage advice, JD Salinger celebrates tap-water and naked French women bring forth a medical miracle. ...Show more