Singing for All He's Worth: Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg by Alex Skovron; Alex Miller; Raymond Gaita
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the early 1990s, after writing for most of his life in Yiddish, his mother tongue, Jacob Rosenberg decided to switch to English. The period of extraordinary creativity that followed was cut short only by his death in 2008, at the age of 86. During those fifteen-odd years, Rosenberg wrote and publishe ...Show more
Black Dog Daze: Public Life, Private Demons by Andrew Robb
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Andrew Robb's battle with the black dog has touched a chord with many Australians. His memoir explores the challenges of managing depression, political ambition and life in the Liberal Party. Andrew Robb's career has been devoted to the Liberal cause - as Federal Director of the Liberal Party, as Execut ...Show more
A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan by Fiona Harari
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This was not the ending either of them expected. Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court judge and human rights champion, and his old friend Teresa Brennan, an exuberant, sometimes controversial US-based academic, had each spent years establishing demanding careers and international reputations, to create ...Show more
Hands Across the Water by Peter Baines
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Peter Baines started out as a police officer in the mean streets of Cabramatta in the early nineties. Becoming a specialist in crime scene forensic investigations he was called upon to bring his skills to the Bali bombings in 2002. But it was the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that forever changed the directio ...Show more
Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady: The true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg by Carol Baxter
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
He was the gentleman bushranger...she was the woman who rode with him. This is the true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady. 'Bail up!' demanded Captain Thunderbolt before he shouted the bar with the inn keeper's own profits. Driven into banditry by injustice, this colonial Robin Hood, magnificent ...Show more
Tea with Arwa: A Memoir of Family, Faith and Finding a Home in Australia by Arwa El Masri
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Born of Palestinian migrants, Arwa did not have a country that she could call home. Just before her ninth birthday her parents came to Australia to give their daughters the greatest gift they could, the right of citizenship and a country that could call their own, a place they could belong. It took a te ...Show more
Almost Full Circle: Harry Seidler: The Life of Harry Seidler by Alice Spigelman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
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