Finding A Way by Graeme Innes
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
I learned from my family that most things could be achieved - the challenge was finding a way. Blind from birth, Graeme Innes was blessed. Blessed because he had a family who refused to view his blindness as a handicap and who instilled in him a belief in his own abilities. Blessed because he had the de ...Show more
A Bird on My Shoulder by Lucy Palmer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Over a decade ago, award-winning journalist Lucy Palmer's beloved husband Julian died of cancer, leaving her alone to manage a farm south of Sydney and to raise their three young children. This moving and beautifully written memoir explores her experiences of death, loss, single parenting and growing ol ...Show more
The Boy on a Tricycle by Marcel Weyland
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The Boy on the Tricycle - Marcel Weyland's extraordinary story, describes the three shapers of his life: a beautiful woman, their witch's castle home and a national epic poem; his life in three continents and his three professions - architecture, law and his multi-award winning English translations of P ...Show more
Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane by Elspeth Muir
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In 2009 Elspeth Muir's youngest brother finished his last university exam and went out with some mates to get drunk. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He put his phone, wallet, T-shirt and thongs on the walkway, climbed over the railing, and jumped thirty metres into the Brisbane River b ...Show more
Gay and Lesbian, Then and Now - Australian Stories from a Social Revolution by Robert Reynolds; Shirleene Robinson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'These are our stories. All of us live in them.' -Anton Enus, SBS News This is the story of a peaceful revolution. Drawing on in-depth interviews, it tells the intimate life stories of thirteen gay and lesbian Australians, ranging in age from twenties to eighties. From the underground beats of 1950s ...Show more
Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Cory Taylor is one of Australia's celebrated novelists, the author of the brilliant Me and Mr Booker (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Pacific region), and My Beautiful Enemy (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award). At the age of sixty, she is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her ill ...Show more
Not Right in the Head: How One Family Laughed Their Way Through Alzheimer's by Michelle Wyatt
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A light-hearted, heart-warming account of how one family faced Alzheimer's and how the almost comical events within the secure walls of the nursing home made them realize that humor was the only way through. Michelle Wyatt's mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer's like he ...Show more
Whole Wild World : A Memoir by Tom Dusevic
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In this exuberant and compelling memoir of family and childhood, readers will be swept away by Tom Dusevic's verve, warmth and honesty. Suburban Sydney in the 1970s is an adventure playground, especially for a busybody, free-range kid with energy, big appetites and ungodly urges. In such open space, bac ...Show more
I Knew You'd Have Brown Eyes (Finch Memoir Prize Winner 2016) by Mary Tennant
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
I Knew You’d Have Brown Eyes charts the journey of mother and child from an unhappy parting at birth through the changing of Australia’s adoption laws and a bitter-sweet reunification that stopped, stuttered and restarted before finally becoming a relationship. Spanning forty years and set against a ba ...Show more
Tom Hughes QC: A Cab on the Rank by Ian Hancock
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australian
For more than thirty years, Tom Hughes, a scion of a notable Sydney family of high achievers, was one of Australia's top barristers, renowned, respected and sometimes feared for his dominating presence in the courtroom. Equally at home in all jurisdictions, his theatrical style, command of language and ...Show more
Farewell to the Father by Timothy Elliott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Tim Elliott's story - on his father and love against the odds - will split your heart open." Benjamin Law Towards the end of his first serious suicide attempts, my father said the strangest thing to me...Growing up in 1970s Sydney, Tim Elliott had a loving stay-at-home mum, a professional father, three ...Show more