Heart of Australia: A Celebration of Community Spirit by Nick Rains
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Nick Rains has photographed people and places across Australia for over 35 years, and in that time he's met people from many different walks of life - people living in remote or rural communities, coastal or urban dwellers, Indigenous Australians, battlers or those who are just plain strange. But the pe ...Show more
Aussie Midwives by Fiona McArthur
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Being present as the midwife at a baby's birth is one of life's glorious adventures.' Nineteen Australian midwives share their incredible stories with passionate midwife and bestselling author Fiona McArthur. Midwives play a vital role in supporting women through some of the most challenging and rewardi ...Show more
Women of the Land: Eight rural women and their remarkable everyday lives by Liz Harfull
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Making your living from the land in Australia is not for the faint-hearted. Isolation, hard physical work, long hours and the vagaries of drought, floods and fire make it a challenging environment for any farmer. But how do you cope when you are a woman in what is traditionally a man's world? Women of t ...Show more
Michael Kirby: Law, Love & Life by Daryl Dellora
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
For most of his life, Michael Kirby has been a man on a tightrope. A person of strong views working in a world governed by objectivity, he has had to balance the potent, sometimes contradictory impulses of passion and duty, honesty and discretion, advocacy and neutrality. He had to hide his real self fr ...Show more
Missing Christopher by Jayne Newling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Christopher was 17 and he had everything to live for. He was smart, charismatic, loving, and deeply loved, and a champion rugby player. Yet behind the veneer of a popular and confident athlete he was struggling. Diagnosed a year earlier with depression and severe anxiety, he hid his fears from family an ...Show more
An Ordinary Life by Luke Pomery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When the author was just 9 years old, he and his mother took an epic bus journey to his new home — a 450,000 acre sheep station outside of Meekatharra, just south of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. It was here where the achingly hard work of helping to run a sheep station began until he wa ...Show more
Kate Kelly: The True Story of Ned Kelly's Little Sister by Rebecca Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Kate Kelly has always been overshadowed by her famous brother Ned, but the talented young woman was a popular public figure in her own right. This moving biography tells her astonishing story in full for the first time.Kate Kelly, the daring sister of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly, was mysteriously fou ...Show more
A Bigger Picture: With new foreword by Malcolm Turnbull
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In A Bigger Picture, the bestselling political memoir of 2020, Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's 29th prime minister, tells the remarkable story of his life. Now in paperback, this edition is updated with an all-new foreword by the author that sheds light on the huge political and cultural changes happening ...Show more
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey through Memory by Mark Raphael Baker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
What right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; it is the story of a son who enters his parents' memories and, inside the darkness, fin ...Show more
Words Without Music - A Memoir by Philip Glass
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Biography lovers will be inspired by the story of a precocious Baltimore boy, the son of a music-shop owner, who entered college at age fifteen, before traveling to Paris to study under the legendary Nadia Boulanger; Glass devotees will be fascinated by the stories behind Einstein on the Beach and Satya ...Show more
Elvis and Me by Gillian Wills
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A world-weary musician and a broken racehorse rescue each other in this inspirational memoir about second chances. At 56 years of age, Gillian Wills bought her first horse on a whim. Elvis was emaciated, scarred, unruly, saddle-phobic and imbued with attitude. However, she sensed in him the remnants of ...Show more
Skimpy: Outrageous True Tales of Crocodiles, Snakes and Pulling Beers in the Outback by Kellie Arrowsmith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Kellie Arrowsmith was a country girl whose idea of a hairdo was tying a ponytail whenever she wanted to go horse riding. But in her early twenties she left her sleepy hometown of Albury on the NSW/Victoria border for the bright lights of the Gold Coast, and soon found herself working in a succession of ...Show more