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
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
Sheila: The Australian Beauty who Bewitched British Society by Robert Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
She wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for 40 years, and died a Russian princessAs a child Sheila Chisholm chased kangaroos on horseback and swam with sharks at Bondi Beach. As a young woman she nursed sold ...Show more
I Survived Kerobokan by Paul Conibeer
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
In 2012, Paul Conibeer, a traveller, was jailed in Bali's infamous Kerobokan Prison - home of Lindsay Sandiford and a host of international travellers on death row for smuggling drugs. Paul's crime - a dispute over an unpaid hotel bill and his failure to "pay off' the right people in the Kuta Police sys ...Show more
Kitty's War: The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton by Janet Butler
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Kitty’s War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same Victorian district of drystone walls, wheatfields and meandering creeks, except many decades apart. The idea of this young nurse setting out ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
'Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!' When Kat ...Show more
The Good Girl Stripped Bare by Tracey Spicer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From bogan to boned and beyond - a full-frontal 'femoir' by one of Australia's best-loved journalists 'Will you ever work in television again?' the journalist asks, thrusting a microphone towards me. 'I hope so,' I say before scuttling into a cafe. It's feeding time and I need to express. But questions ...Show more