Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
$22.95 AUD
Category: Australian
In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her first steps towards a life in music, from childhood piano lessons with a local jazz muso to international success as a concert pianist. As she discovers passion and ambition, and confronts doubt and disappointment, she learns about much more than t ...Show more
Killer company James Hardie Exposed by Matt Peacock
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Peacock rips the cloak of secrecy from one of the greatest corporate scandals in Australia. His research reveals how the Reid family amassed a fortune as its asbestos company expanded, killing in its wake thousands of workers and customers, and oversaw a strategy that ignored the dangers of asbestos and ...Show more
Mama Jude: An Australian Nurse's Extraordinary Other Life in Africa by Judy Steel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Despite plans to enjoy her retirement after working as a nurse for over three decades, Judy Steel found herself in Uganda at the age of 58, providing medical aid to some of Africa's most disadvantaged people. Since 2000, she has returned every year for several months at a time, establishing a small hosp ...Show more
Mama Mia: A Memoir of Magazines and Mother Hood by Mia Freedman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Newspaper columnist- author and former magazine editor Mia Freedman has been called the voice of her generation and in MAMA MIA she writes candidly about the myth of perfection so many high profile women try to maintain.
William Charles Wentworth: Australia's Greatest Native Son by Andrew Tink
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Described by Manning Clark as 'Australia's greatest native son', William Charles Wentworth led a life of firsts. A man of rat cunning, great intelligence and sharp wit, he wrote the first book by an Australian to be published, was joint editor and proprietor of the colony's first independent newspaper, ...Show more
Poppy by Gregor Salmon
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Afghanistan has become the world's largest producer of opium and its offshoot, heroin - all under the noses of Western civil and military stakeholders. At the nexus of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, truth is as elusive and fragile as the new democracy itself, now on the brink of being consumed ...Show more
Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir by Mark Tredinnick
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The Blue Plateau is a lyrical exploration of a classic Australian landscape - the Blue Mountains - and its people, and the story of one man's journey to find home. The book's evocative narrative follows the author's attempt to settle in this difficult terrain, yet The Blue Plateau is a book of many stor ...Show more
Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds by Kate Lance
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Based on extensive research in both Australia and England, Kate Lance has produced a fascinating portrait of Villiers and the world he inhabited. Alan Villiers was born in Melbourne in 1903 and, from boyhood, had a passion for the sea and sailing. In 1921, after a lucky break won him a job as a journali ...Show more
Andrew Fisher - An Underestimated by BASTIAN Peter
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Australians take for granted the presence of their federal government, yet it is impossible to overestimate the role Andrew Fisher played in its development. This book reveals the skills with which Fisher led the ALP in its early years and his important contributions as wartime Prime Minister and as Hig ...Show more
Stanley and Sophie by JENNINGS Kate
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
A wise, wry book about two border terriers, by the keenly intelligent, prize-winning writer who lost her heart to them.
On Paths of Ash by Robert Holman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
"On Paths of Ash" is an extraordinary Australian World War Two story. Robert and Jack Holman were working-class brothers who enlisted to fight for their country and found themselves in three of the most horrific experiences of the war. Caught up in the fall of Singapore, they were interned at Changi pri ...Show more
David Williamson - Behind the Scene by WILLIAMSON Kristin
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
David Williamson is one of Australia's most celebrated cultural figures. For over thirty years his plays have been the mirror to which many Australians have turned to see themselves reflected. His wife, Kristin, takes us behind the scenes to give us the ultimate portrait of the man whose plays have so d ...Show more