Run for Your Life by Jill Joliffe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Forced into adoption and taken in by a violent household, the course of Jill Jolliffe's life was set before she had time to choose. She ran away as a teen and has been running ever since. Jolliffe became a thorn in the establishment's side and earned herself a hefty ASIO file in the process. Following h ...Show more
SAS Insider: An Elite SAS Fighter on Life in Australia's Toughest and Most Secretive Combat Unit by Clint Palmer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS. As a bus ...Show more
ASBESTOS HOUSE by HAIGH GIDEON
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century- asbestos. Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie built itself ...Show more
Never, Um, Ever Ending Story by Molly Meldrum
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1974 Ian 'Molly' Meldrum was working as a record producer and music journalist when he was offered the chance to host a new music show called 'Countdown'. It was a show that would run for the next thirteen years and become one of the most-loved and most-watched programs on Australian television. It a ...Show more
Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Frank and funny, this memoir vividly recounts the first 17 years of the author's life in Sydney's slums and in New South Wales' countryside. Abandoned by her mother as a baby and by her volatile grandmother as a young girl, Kate Howarth was shunted between Aboriginal relatives and expected to grow up fa ...Show more
Labour of Love: A Story of Generosity, Hope and Surrogacy by Shannon Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Shannon Garner met and married the man of her dreams, had two gorgeous children and lived an idyllic life on the New South Wales coast. So why did she decide one day to pursue altruistic surrogacy? And what made her choose a gay male couple from Sydney? Labour of Love is Shannon's honest and engaging st ...Show more
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: National Trust History & Heritage
To this day, Beatrix Potter's tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A talented artist who became a scientific expert ...Show more
Saltwater by Cathy McLennan
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent ... your dilemma is not whether the kids are innocent, but which of the kids are innocent.'When Cathy McLennan first steps into Townsville's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service as a young graduate she isn't expecting a major murder cas ...Show more
No Job for a Woman by Sallyanne Atkinson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
"Sallyanne Atkinson was the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the first female senior trade commissioner to Paris and has been a leader in business and corporate life for over four decades. No Job for a Woman takes us from her wartime childhood in Sri Lanka through her early career as a journalist an ...Show more
Ditch the Dead Weight - How My Toughest Choice Became My Greatest Mission by Mike Rolls
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Often in personal or professional development the sole focus is how to get more of something. Mike turns this idea on its head and asks, what could we potentially get rid of to make our lives lighter, freer and more meaningful? Practical, plain-speaking, humorous and inspiring, Mike is an incredibly eng ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Diaries
Helen Garner's second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in l ...Show more
Lisa: THE INSPIRING #1 BESTSELLING MEMOIR by Lisa Curry
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 06
The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple Olympian and wellness entrepreneur Lisa Curry has lived her life in the public eye for four decades. In this very personal memoir, she shares the untold story of being Lisa. A swimming protegee who became o ...Show more