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
Enemy by Ruth Clare
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'I was born into the war still raging inside my father.' Ruth Clare's father came back from the Vietnam War a changed man: a violent, controlling parent and a dominating, aggressive husband. Through a childhood of being constantly on guard, with no one to protect her but herself, Ruth learned to be stro ...Show more
Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. As an Aboriginal Australian, Stan Grant has had to contend with his country's racist legacy all his life. Born into adversity, he found an escape route through education and the writing of James Baldwin, going on to beco ...Show more
The Queensland Caesar: Sir Thomas McIlwraith by Denver Beanland
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This new book provides a fresh analysis of Queensland during the colonial era. It provides new insights into Queensland's past. Sir Thomas McIlwraith thundered across Queensland's political and business landscape for 30 years. The three times Premier took bold and audacious actions, and had the energy a ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, turned the situation to his advantage to become one of the world's greatest ballet stars. Li tells his story with charm and simplicity, wit ...Show more
This is Gail by Gail O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An inspiring story of one woman's journey through heartbreaking loss to renewal and new purpose. In 2008, inspirational surgeon and Lifehouse cancer centre founder Chris O'Brien published his bestselling memoir of his battle with brain cancer, NEVER SAY DIE. But he wasn't the only person in the O'Brien ...Show more
The Family Law by Benjamin Law
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: Why won't his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? ...Show more
The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women in Power by Geraldine Doogue
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Iconic journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue turns her attention to an issue central to our times. How are we, as women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia? In candid and personal conversations with fourteen women leading the way in fields as wide-ranging as business, pol ...Show more
Black and Proud by Matthew Klugman and Gary Osmond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
On 17 April 1993, after an AFL match between St Kilda and Collingwood, Saints star Nicky Winmar made a historic statement in the face of a torrent of racial abuse. Facing the Collingwood crowd after St Kilda’s decisive win, he pulled up his shirt, pointed to his chest and declared: ‘I’m black and I’m pr ...Show more