My Relations, by Robin Ann Eakin by Robin Dalton
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1929 an eight-year-old child, who had very few relations, imagined an assortment of eccentric aunts, uncles and cousins. She wrote and illustrated a little book about them, which her grandmother kept. This is it.
Kerry Stokes: The Boy from Nowhere by Andrew Rule
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The inspirational, bestselling story of the rags to riches life of Kerry Stokes. Kerry Stokes is a remarkable Australian. Not because he is one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful people, but because of what he overcame to get there and because he has endured when others didn't. His success and ...Show more
Sweet Boy Dear Wife: Jane Dieulafoy in Persia 1881-1886 by Heather Rossiter
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'What! That sweet boy is a woman?' asked the Shah. 'Indeed, your Majesty,' replied Colonel Dieulafoy, 'she is Madame Dieulafoy, my dear wife.' Captivated by enamelled tiles and bricks used in Islamic buildings, Jane Dieulafoy's search in great cities and small villages, despite illness, religious fanati ...Show more
More Cloak Than Dagger: One Woman’s Career in Secret Intelligence by Molly J. SASSON
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Foreword by Peter Coleman AO More Cloak than Dagger: One Woman’s Career in Secret Intelligence is the remarkable autobiography of Molly J. Sasson who, during her long and eventful career, worked with secret intelligence organisations in three countries – Britain, the Netherlands and Australia – at the ...Show more
Before Rupert by Thomas Roberts
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Following the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch said his greatest regret was that he had let his father down. Popular history views Sir Keith Murdoch (1885 - 1952) as a fearless war correspondent, author of a brave, censor-evading letter that led to the evacuation of the Anzac forc ...Show more
Unseen ANZAC: How an Enigmatic Explorer Created Australia's World War I Photographs (HB) by Jeff Maynard
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The previously untold story of an extraordinary man and a great war photographer.Cameras were banned at the Western Front when the Anzacs arrived in 1916, prompting correspondent Charles Bean to argue continually for Australia to have a dedicated photographer. He was eventually assigned an enigmatic pol ...Show more
Island Home - a landscape memoir by Tim Winton
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is ...Show more
Plain-Speaking Jane by Jane Caro
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'At some point, I gave up trying to play it safe. I stopped trying to control the uncontrollable.'Jane Caro is known for saying what she thinks across the news and entertainment media. In an era where public figures talk about themselves as brands, and manage every moment accordingly, this is not just r ...Show more
No Fixed Address Short Black 11 by Robyn Davidson
$7.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Short Blacks
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar; the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins; the circumambulators of the Buddhist ko ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog: Short Black 10 by Les Murray
$7.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Short Blacks
'On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later ...at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. ...Show more
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice Short Black 4 by Helen Garner
$6.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Short Blacks
'They say that tourist ships to Antarctica, even more than ordinary human conveyances, are loaded down with aching hearts. Deceived wives and widowers, men who've never been loved and don't know why, Russian crew forced to leave their children behind for years at a time ...And then there are the married ...Show more
Body Lengths: A Story About Growing Up in Bathers by Leisel Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'From the moment I am born, I am like no-one else around me. I am a fish out of water. Even in the pool.' Leisel Jones is rightly regarded as one of the greatest breaststrokers ever. At just fifteen, she won two silver medals at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000; she went on to win gold at Athens and Bei ...Show more