One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$24.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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 Kate ...Show more
For Love of Country by Anthony Hill
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
When one choice can lead to triumph or failure, life or death, glory or destruction . . . what will you choose? With Choose the Future, YOU decide how, when, where and with whom the Doctor will fight to save the world! In this brand new adventure, Night of the Kraken, the Twelfth Doctor meets a roguish ...Show more
Georgiana Molloy: The Mind That Shines by Bernice Barry
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This meticulously researched biography tells the extraordinary story of Georgiana Molloy, one of Australia's first internationally successful female botanists.From the refined beauty of 19th century England and Scotland, to the dramatic landscape of the West Australian coast, Georgiana Molloy: The Mind ...Show more
Surrender by Joshua Yeldham
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Welcome to the extraordinary and wonderful world of Joshua Yeldham. I hope you wore sensible shoes." Richard Roxburgh In this journal for his daughter Indigo, Joshua Yeldham charts his life from growing up on the Hawkesbury River to becoming one of the most astonishing artists Australia has produced in ...Show more
Rosetta by Alexandra Joel
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The scandalous Australian woman who enchanted British society Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls. The pair reinve ...Show more
William Yang: Recompositions by Helena Grehan
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Acclaimed photographer William Yang has captured the zeitgeist like no-one else. Yang has provided a very personal insight into the evolution of Mardi Gras, the spectre of AIDS, Sydney's theatrical and social scenes, and changing notions of 'belonging' in multicultural Australia. In this groundbreaking ...Show more
Road Series by Hugo Race
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In the spirit of Patti Smith's M Train, Road Series is both love story and elegy. Renowned musician Hugo Race's evocations of Melbourne, Sydney, the USA, Europe and Mali, and the life of a rock musician on the road are revealing, incisive and exquisitely written. 'A cerebral "road-poem" of the musician- ...Show more
Murderer No More: Andrew Mallard and the Epic Fight That Proved His Innocence by Colleen Egan
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1994 Pamela Lawrence was brutally bashed to death in her jewelry shop in Perth. Fairly quickly, police suspicion fell on a young, psychologically fragile drifter named Andrew Mallard; he was ultimately charged and convicted of this murder. It took 13 years for this injustice to unravel. Here is it's ...Show more
Ken Done: a Life Coloured In by Ken Done
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An impressionistic and exuberant memoir by Australia's best-loved artist. Ken Done has an extraordinary place in the hearts of Australians - we've all worn or decorated our homes with his artwork. His vivid, optimistic images are part of our collective consciousness and have helped define us to the wor ...Show more
After Before Time by Robbi Neal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Stories of life from a remote Aboriginal community that sing with vivid and simple life, truth and power. At the end of 2008, Robbi Neal and her family travelled to the other end of mainland Australia to a remote Aboriginal community. They planned to stay for twelve months. Seven years later, they are ...Show more
Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Frank, fearless, funny, articulate and inspiring, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a dynamo, a young Muslim dynamo offering a bracing breath of fresh air - and hope. At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Austr ...Show more
Outback Penguin Richard Lane's Barwell Diaries by Elizabeth Lane
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Richard Lane was one of three brothers who founded Penguin Books in 1935. But like all great stories, his life didn't start there. After sailing to Adelaide in 1922, Richard began work as a boy migrant - a farm apprentice living in rural South Australia as part of the 'Barwell Boys' scheme. In Austra ...Show more