Hope by Rosie Batty
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australian
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Telling: Stories of Resilience from Nairm Marr Djambana by Nairm Marr Djambana Aboriginal Corporation
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
‘Our Songlines continue through our lived experiences. The strength, resilience, hope and love is heard and felt deeply within each of these stories. Our Elders share their culture and wisdom through their knowledge. We are forever grateful.’ — Kutcha Edwards The 12 short life stories in Telling are gr ...Show more
Finding the Heart of the Nation: The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues (2nd Edition) by Thomas Mayo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas Mayo gets behind the politics and legal speak to explain why the Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to all Australians. Australia is set to vote on a refer ...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
Is That Thing Diesel?: One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil by Paul Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, no longer toiling on offshore drilling rigs, was Paul Carter happily nestled in the cotton wool of suburban life enjoying the fruits of his labour? Was he f**k! With his manic life left far behind and the perfect opportunity to take it easy st ...Show more
Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus by Charmian Clift
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family led in Greece in the 1950's in one volume. For Charmian Clift, Greece was the Promised Land. In 1954 she and her husband, George Johnston, abandoned their sophisticated London existence and set off with two new ...Show more
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.
Gold Rush: How I Made, Lost and Made a Fortune by Jim Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When Jim Richards left the British army to join a modern-day gold rush, he had no language skills, no money and no idea. Jim has prospected and mined in some of the maddest, most dangerous places on earth, where isolation, disease and violent criminals come with the territory. He has struck gold and dia ...Show more
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Being a copper?s son, I?ve always got one eye out for trouble. I can?t help it. But I don?t go looking for it anymore.?In Tim Winton?s fiction, chaos shapes the lives of his characters. So too Winton?s own life. The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind the Curtaintake us be ...Show more
Teacher: One woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching by Gabbie Stroud
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more