Women of a Certain Age by Jodie Moffat
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Anne Aly, Liz Byrski, Sarah Drummond, Mehreen Faruqi, Goldie Goldbloom, Krissy Kneen, Jeanine Leane, Brigid Lowry and Pat Torres are among fifteen voices recounting what it is like to be a woman on the other side of 40. These are stories of identity and survival, and a celebration of getting older and w ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Nungar
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jig ...Show more
Still Smiling by June Dally-Watkins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'Still Smiling' is the moving account of an illegitimate girl's amazing journey from country New South Wales, to a romance with Gregory Peck off the set of 'Roman Holiday', to being one of Australia's most celebrated business-women. This special Diamond Anniversary edition biography, 'Still Smiling', is ...Show more
The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir (HB) by Anh Do
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days - could ...Show more
Growing up in Adelaide in the 1950s by Susan Blackburn (ed.)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
‘Growing up in the fifties was a time of isolation and innocence. We didn’t know what was going on in the rest of the world. We could only compare ourselves with those around us.’ So writes Max Lees in his reminiscence, ‘Freedom’, one of the 13 contributions to this delightful evocation of childhood edi ...Show more
Bush Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. They patch people up and keep them alive while waiting for the doctor to arrive, they drive the ambulances, operate the clinics and deliver the babies. They are on call around the clock and there are no days off. All th ...Show more
Hard Times by Jack Mercer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the spirit of A B Facey's 'A Fortunate Life', Jack Mercer's 'Hard Times' is the true story of the author's amazing adventures. In 1911, growing up in an Ararat pub, he faces the terror of a violent stepfather and a mother who barely acknowledges his existence. But one thing keeps him sane: a plan to ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man by Margaret Simons
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Plucked from an orphanage as an infant, Kerry Stokes grew up in the slums and streets of post-Depression Melbourne with his itinerant, adoptive parents. As a boy he trapped, skinned and sold rabbits to make ends meet, and seemed destined to a life of hardship and poverty. Today Stokes is one of Australi ...Show more
Boganaire: the rise and fall of Nathan Tinkler by Paddy Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
Hunter Valley electrician Nathan Tinkler borrowed big to turn a fortune from a speculative coal play, bursting onto the rich list in 2008 and quickly becoming Australia's youngest billionaire at the age of 35. Tinkler was emblem of both Australia's new aspirational classes and its once-in-a-generation r ...Show more
Was it Something I Said? : Misadventures in Suburbia by Ros Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Whether writing about her foiled attempt to seduce her husband, the homesick Irishman she found on the beach or why dog-people and cat-people can never be friends, Ros Thomas does so with the kind of humour and clarity that keeps her readers coming back week after week. These stories are for anyone who ...Show more