Monash : The Soldier Who Shaped Australia by Grantlee Kieza
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia - the first major biography of Monash in over a decade John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider, poor, Jewish in an era which still practiced anti-Semitism, bookish at a ti ...Show more
Anti Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Brutal, brave, hilarious - a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you. Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while ...Show more
Running Like China by Sophie Hardcastle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'When I was eleven years old Mum told me, "One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name." Even before I heard these words I was always a child who crammed intense joy into tiny pockets of time.' One day Sophie Hardcastle realised the joy she'd always known had disappeared. She was co ...Show more
Inside Out : An Extraordinary Story of Ambition, Addiction and Redemption by Greg Fisher
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
When Greg Fisher was a child his mother said he'd either be very successful or end up in jail. After a comfortable upbringing in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Greg Fisher did what he thought a good Jewish boy should do. He married, had a child and started making his way up the corporate ladder. But after co ...Show more
Letters to my Grandchildren by David Suzuki
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful. He challenges his grandchildren - and us - to do everything at full tilt. He explains why sports, fishing, feminism, ...Show more
What My Daughters Taught Me by Joseph Wakim
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A heartwarming memoir of a widower bringing up his three daughters - and the precious life lessons they taught him along the way.
Skimpy: Outrageous True Tales of Crocodiles, Snakes and Pulling Beers in the Outback by Kellie Arrowsmith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Kellie Arrowsmith was a country girl whose idea of a hairdo was tying a ponytail whenever she wanted to go horse riding. But in her early twenties she left her sleepy hometown of Albury on the NSW/Victoria border for the bright lights of the Gold Coast, and soon found herself working in a succession of ...Show more
Without My Mum by Leigh Van Der Horst
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Perhaps the only thing that can impact and shape a woman's life with the same power as her mother's love and guidance is her mother's death. In Without My Mum, Leigh Van Der Horst shares her own honest, heartfelt story of losing her beloved mother to cancer in 2008. She invites us on a journey that is a ...Show more
Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family's Long Road to Justice by Michael Magazanik
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'The baby started to come out. Head first, everything OK. But then I saw that there were no arms. And then no legs. The little girl had only a torso and a head.' Lyn Rowe was born in Melbourne in 1962, seven months after her mother Wendy was given a new wonder drug for morning sickness called thalidomid ...Show more
Australian Farming Families by Deb Hunt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'This is a book about the human aspects of life on the land - the stories of success and failure, life and love, of hardship and celebration - and the passion and gritty determination that characterised every family I interviewed.'Author Deb Hunt sets out to discover what makes what makes Australian far ...Show more
Vera - My Story by Vera Wasowski; Robert Hillman
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A story of courage, unconventionality and lust for life. Vera Wasowski was just seven years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov Jewish ghetto in Poland. She watched her father take his own life and her mother accede to sexual blackmail in order to ensure her and Vera's survival. Wi ...Show more
A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Moscow in the 1960s was the other side of the Iron Curtain: mysterious, exotic, even dangerous. In 1966 the historian Sheila Fitzpatrick travelled to Moscow to research in the Soviet archives. This was the era of Brezhnev, of a possible 'thaw' in the Cold War, when the Soviets couldn't decide either to ...Show more