The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing ...' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all th ...Show more
Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer by Robert Macklin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
While English-born soldiers, sailors and surveyors have claimed pride of place among the explorers of the young New South Wales colony, the real pathfinder was a genuine native-born Australian. Hamilton Hume, a man with a profound understanding of the Aboriginal people and an almost mystical relationshi ...Show more
Wool Away, Boy!: A Ripping Memoir of Life in the Shearing Sheds by Alan Blunt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A firsthand account of the shearing sheds of the 1950s and 60s. The son of a shearer, Alan Blunt spent his teenage years in the woolsheds of the 1950s and 60s. As his father laboured, Alan would imagine himself opening the batting for Australia or boxing for the world middleweight championship, only to ...Show more
Doing It: Women Tell the Truth About Great Sex by Karen Pickering
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
"Doing It is a bold, explicit and unapologetically feminist look at sex written by women with a great story to tell about a positive sexual encounter, relationship or development in their lives. This collection u memoir, essay, erotica, art u encourages honest discussions about pleasure and desire, and ...Show more
Freeing Peter by Juris Greste
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Freeing Peter tells the extraordinary true story of how an ordinary Australian family took on the Egyptian government to get Peter Greste out of prison. What would you do if a loved one were to suddenly find themselves in the most impossible of situations? That's the question addressed in Freeing Peter ...Show more
Mannix by Brenda Niall
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne's Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect on the wider Australian nation too. Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall has made some unexpected ...Show more
Swifty - A Life if Yvonne Swift by Edmund Campion
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The extraordinary story of how a devoted nun became an equally devoted campaigner for justice- as a successful criminal defence lawyer. When Yvonne Benedicta Swift entered the Sacre Coeur convent in Rose Bay in 1938, she was determined to dedicate herself to religious life. But in the 1970s she did some ...Show more
Rebellious Daughters by Maria Katsonis & Lee Kofman (edited by)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite. In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia's most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories of rebellion and independence as they defy the ex ...Show more
Labour of Love: A Story of Generosity, Hope and Surrogacy by Shannon Garner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Shannon Garner met and married the man of her dreams, had two gorgeous children and lived an idyllic life on the New South Wales coast. So why did she decide one day to pursue altruistic surrogacy? And what made her choose a gay male couple from Sydney? Labour of Love is Shannon's honest and engaging st ...Show more
Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing by Ashleigh Wilson
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"When he died in 1992 Brett Whiteley left behind decades of ceaseless activity:some works bound to a particular place or time, others that are masterpieces of light and line. Whiteley had arrived in Europe in 1960 determined to make an impression. Before long he was the youngest artist to have work acqu ...Show more
Finding A Way by Graeme Innes
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
I learned from my family that most things could be achieved - the challenge was finding a way. Blind from birth, Graeme Innes was blessed. Blessed because he had a family who refused to view his blindness as a handicap and who instilled in him a belief in his own abilities. Blessed because he had the de ...Show more
A Bird on My Shoulder by Lucy Palmer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Over a decade ago, award-winning journalist Lucy Palmer's beloved husband Julian died of cancer, leaving her alone to manage a farm south of Sydney and to raise their three young children. This moving and beautifully written memoir explores her experiences of death, loss, single parenting and growing ol ...Show more