Kylie Tennant : An Australian Life by Jane Grant
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This is a long overdue study of the life and work of Australian writer Kylie Tennant. Based on the National Library's substantial holdings of Tennant manuscripts and correspondence, this second work in the National Library's "An Australian Life" series provides key insights into Tennant's prolific liter ...Show more
A Life by Design: The Art and Lives of Florence Broadhurst by Siobhan O'Brien
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Florence Broadhurst, the one-time chanteuse of Shanghai, Bond Street salon owner, world-renowned wallpaper designer and Sydney socialite lived a life steeped in subterfuge and deception. Here for the first time we get a glimpse at the fascinating woman behind the hand-printed brocades.
Repeating the Leaving: An Unauthorised Memoir by Charles Waterstreet
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The hero of "Precious Bodily Fluids" is back! This time Charlie's 16, his hormones are pumping and he's desperately trying to join the burgeoning sexual revolution from the confines of a Sydney boarding school. But when tragedy strikes he leaves school, and boyhood, behind forever.
12 Edmondstone Street by David Malouf
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
First published in 1985, this book combines autobiography with a sense of the ways in which the objects with which we surround ourselves, and the places in which we live, build our private maps of reality and shape our personal mythologies. By the author of "An Imaginary Life" and "Antipodes".
One Crowded Hour - Neil Davis, Combat Camerman 1934-1985 by Tim Bowden
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
One Crowded Hour is the bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest combat cinecameramen and an extraordinary Australian. First published in 1987, One Crowded Hour remains a must-read for aspiring photographers, cinematographers, journalists and war buffs. For over twenty years, from the early ...Show more
Me of the Never Never: The (Chaotic) Life and Times of Fiona O'Loughlin by Fiona O'Loughlin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Fiona O'Loughlin is certainly the funniest (and possibly one of the busiest) working mothers in Australia today: a stand-up comedian based in Alice Springs and Adelaide, she is on the road for most of the year, doing live performances, plus regular television appearances. Fiona has also had successful s ...Show more
Black Swan: A Koorie Woman's Life by Eileen Harrison
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years in a mission to discovery of her talent as a painter "It's bad luck to catch a black swan." Eileen Harrison grew up at in an Aboriginal mission station in the 1950s as one of 11 children in a tight-knit, loving family. ...Show more