Holding the Man: Popular Penguins by Timothy Conigrave
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
With honesty and insight Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership, and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive to HIV.The mid-seventies - at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
Home to Biloela: The Story of the Tamil Family that Captured Our Hearts by Priya Nadesalingam, Rebekah Holt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The dramatic inside story of the Tamil refugee family which became a cause clbre all around Australia, and the epic fight by a small rural community to set them free. It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumping on the front door signalled the start of a four-year odyssey that would ca ...Show more
A Lady's Pen: The botanical letters of Georgiana Molloy by Bernice Barry
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In December 1836, Georgiana Molloy received an unexpected letter from a stranger in London. Captain James Mangles asked her to collect specimens and seeds of the native plants of Taalinup, where she was living with her family, on Wadandi Pibelmen country. During the last six years of her life, they exch ...Show more
The World of Mab Grimwade by Thea Gardiner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An exquisitely packaged hardback revealing the untold story of an influential Australian philanthropist. Born into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly (1887-1973), or 'Mab' to those who knew her, would grow up to make an enormous contribution to the a ...Show more
My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm by Sam Vincent
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer living in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother- his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but 'not to worry - it wasn't like that scene in Fargo or anything'. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, h ...Show more
Paris for Beginners: A memoir about love, adventure and finding yourself in the City of Llghts by Rachael Coopes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Gorgeous travel memoir set in Paris from Play School presenter, award-winning screenwriter and author of Find Your Strength, Rachael Coopes. For fans of Eat Pray Love,Almost French and Emily In Paris. 'Enchanting, amusing, life-affirming and wise.' Toni Pearen Sometimes the best compass is to follow you ...Show more
Dress Rehearsals by Madison Godfrey
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body. My femininity is not a survival instinct, it is a song. In their brilliant new poetry collection, Madison Godfrey documents a decade of performing womanhood, from teenage fangirl to tender femme. ...Show more
The Space Between the Stars: On Love, Loss and the Magical Power of Nature To Heal by Indira Naidoo
$33.00 AUD
$34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian
A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts. 'Life-changing' Kate Ceberano'Powerfully moving and insightful' David George Haskell For as long as I can remember, there has always been just the three of us. Three sisters. Only a year bet ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clie ...Show more
The Joy of High Places by Patti Miller
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
They didn't know it, but Patti Miller and herbrother, Barney, shared something in common -- a passion for the illuminating joy of wild nature -- with all its challenges and dangers. In this extraordinaryand unexpected book, Patti tells the story of her own long-distance walkingover hundreds of kilometre ...Show more