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
Fourteen: My Year of Darkness, and the Light That Followed by Shannon Molloy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Optioned for a major film and adapted to the stage, Fourteen is this generation’s Holding the Man – a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man’s search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay k ...Show more
Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A triumphant story of hope and survival. I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and fac ...Show more
In Bad Faith: Inside a secret ultra-Orthodox sect and the brutal betrayal it tried to hide by Dassi Erlich
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'I am a sexual abuse survivor, but I am also more than a survivor. I will continue fighting for justice for all victims.' Dassi Erlich grew up in St Kilda East, the fourth of seven children born to parents who had joined one of the strictest ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the world. As a girl, he ...Show more
Anything Can Happen by Susan Hampton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Warm and wry, mixing high culture and suburban realism, the laconic and the artful, Anything Can Happen is a memoir from one of Australia’s literary trailblazers. Funny, heartbreaking, it has exactly the arc of a good story, with a theme about storytelling and lies and how truth and memory are complex. ...Show more
Weatherman Goes Bush by Graham Creed
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A memoir about the unexpected joys and challenges of a tree-change from a television studio to a farm, from a beloved former ABC weather presenter. The expectations of a tree-change rarely meet the reality, but for TV weatherman-cum-farmer Graham Creed, being immersed in the weather every day, rather th ...Show more
Life Keeps Me Dancing: 108 years well lived, grounded in creativity, adventure and love by Eileen Kramer
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'I am not old. I have just been here for a long time.' Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; ...Show more
The Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few have talked about. In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmani ...Show more
Helena Rubinstein: The Australian Years by Angus Trumble
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behind This meticulously researched and wryly entertaining portrait of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) focuses on the years she spent in Australia as a young woman, recoveri ...Show more
I'd Rather Not by Robert Skinner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"I was sleeping in what might reasonably be described as a ditch, though I tried not to think of it in those terms for morale reasons … " Robert Skinner arrives in the city, searching for a richer life. Things begin badly and then, surprisingly, get slightly worse. Pretty soon he’s sleeping rough and t ...Show more