The House on the Hill by Susan Duncan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The third and final memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek. In this memoir, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there's no point in sweating long-term ramifications. There aren't any. This new understanding delivers an unexpected bonus u the emotional freedo ...Show more
The Last Crocodile Hunter by Robert E. Irwin; Amanda French; Bob Irwin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Bob Irwin grew up in the Dandenong Ranges where his passion for wildlife was born. A near-death experience made him realize he needed to follow his dreams, so he and his wife Lyn moved their young family to Queensland and opened a wildlife park. The Irwin children grew up around the Beerwah Reptile & ...Show more
Not all Superheroes Wear Capes by Quentin Kenihan
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
When he was a kid, Quentin Kenihan loved Superman. Ironic, really. Quentin didn't need kryptonite to reveal his weakness - born with a rare bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta, his bones broke all on their own. When Quentin was seven, Mike Willesee made a documentary about him. Australians fell in l ...Show more
A Tear in the Soul by Amanda Webster
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
I don't believe it's possible to hurt another person without hurting oneself, an invisible hurt, a tear in the soul that allows the essence of one's humanity to leak out, like bleeding from a cut. Awareness of the loss might come infrequently or only in the dead of night or when staring at the bottom of ...Show more
Lazarus Rising (Revised Edition) by John Howard
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australian politics through the eyes of the ultimate insider John Howard spent decades under media scrutiny, and while his credentials as a political leader, devoted family man and sports tragic are beyond dispute, in this autobiography he reveals much more about himself. In Lazarus Rising Howard traces ...Show more
Margaret Bailey: Pioneering Headmistress of Ascham School by Jane Gilmour
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Businesswoman and educational innovator, Margaret Bailey was one of a small number of women who transformed education for girls in the first half of the twentieth century. She was committed to providing opportunities for independence and educational equality for young women. She was the headmistress ...Show more
To Prey and To Silence by Joan Katherine Isaacs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"There have been extraordinary revelations at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse but the testimony of survivor Joan Isaacs was particularly confronting" ...Joan is one of "Australia's heroes" ...one of the "brilliant voices ...shining through the gloom". -Van Badham, ...Show more
The House that Jack Built: Jack Mundey Green Bans Hero by James Colman
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the story of how an ordinary bloke from the bush became the key figure in a movement that would change the shape of our cities and bring about lasting political and legal reform. This is the story of the house that Jack Mundey built. Without the green bans movement of the 1970s, Sydney and many ...Show more
The Unknown Judith Wright by Georgina Arnott
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Judith Wright (1915-2000) remains a giant figure within Australian art, culture and politics. Her 1946 collection of poetry, The Moving Image, revolutionised Australian poetry. She helped to establish the modern Australian environmental movement and was a key player in early campaigns for Aboriginal lan ...Show more
An Ordinary Man, an Extraordinary Life by Malcolm Linsell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An unfortunate accident as a toddler left both of Malcolm Linsell's hands burned. At the age of 13, a Plastic surgeon released a burns scar contracture on his right hand, and it was from this day on that unknowingly inspired Malcolm to become a plastic surgeon.
In Sickness, in Health ... and in Jail: What Happened When My Husband Surprised Me by Going to Prison for Two Years by Melissa Jacob
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The funny, insightful and moving account of what happens to a close, loving middle-class family when the father is unexpectedly thrown in jail.
Hack in a Flak Jacket by Peter Stefanovic
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
For almost ten years Peter Stefanovic was Channel 9's foreign correspondent in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. During that time he witnessed more than his fair share of death and destruction - all while putting his own personal safety very much in the firing line. This is his memoir of those experie ...Show more