One Leg Over by Robin Dalton
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
bioAt the age of ninety-six Robin Dalton looks back on a rich and colourful life, and especially her sumptuous love life. This is a story of romance and love like no other. After marrying young and disastrously, society belle Robin Eakin divorces. The event makes the front page of the Sydney newspapers, ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx by Ruth Park
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The second volume of Ruth Park's autobiography is the tender portrait of her partnership with D'Arcy Niland in life and work. They were two talented, volatile people who shared dreams, disappointments and triumphs.
A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Written as vividly as any of her novels, Ruth Park's autobiography is a moving, passionate, often funny account of the people and places which influenced her early years. Her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand fed her fertile imagination; her convent education encouraged her love of wo ...Show more
A Beautiful Game by Mark Nicholas
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Mark Nicholas, anchor for Channel 9's Test commentary team in Australia and Channel 5's Cricket on Five show in the UK, has a unique knowledge and perspective on the world game of cricket. As both a former player and now a professional observer and commentator on the game he knows all the key figures in ...Show more
Only: A Singular Memoir by Caroline Baum
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far between. Mostly, there was only me...Only is a painfully honest and entertaining story of an unconventional c ...Show more
Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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-Australian-with-some-Turkish-and-Moroccan-background Muslim woman. With her hijab quickly christened a "tea cosy" there could not be a more unlikely place on earth ...Show more
The Helen One Hundred: 100 Dates in Less Than a Year by Helen Razer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A hundred dates in less than a year. Will they heal her broken heart or make it worse? Brilliant, hilarious and excruciating confessions from bestselling writer and journalist Helen Razer.
Sharp 1942 - 1979: A Biography of Martin Sharp as Told to Lowell Tarling by Lowell Tarling
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Martin Sharp was an integral part of international Pop Art in the 1960s, magnified through his covers for OZ magazine in Sydney and London, his covers for Cream, and posters of Dylan, Hendrix and Donovan. His efforts at making The Yellow House and Luna Park cultural precincts, were aided by his screen p ...Show more
Dymphna by Judith Armstrong
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Dymphna Lodewyckx was a brilliant linguist who easily won prizes and scholarships but cannot be said to have pursued a career; instead, she married Manning Clark, who earned great fame as an Australian historian. Occasional translations and classes gave Dymphna much pleasure and some pride, but they wer ...Show more
Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Nungar
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jig ...Show more
Come Home You Little Bastards by Carl Beauchamp
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Born in inner-Sydney to an alcoholic mother and an absent father, Carl Beauchamp and his brother Neville ran wild until they were taken into care. That care turned out to be a nightmare, with the boys placed in separate boys' homes, and in Carl's case in the hands of sexual predators. The boys survived, ...Show more
In the Name of I by Bea Eschen
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A short and eventful autobiographical novel telling about the upbringing of a woman in Germany and her later life in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Political and cultural events on the different continents interconnect with the private life of Alannah, who fights for the realization of her dre ...Show more