Craft For A Dry Lake by Kim Mahood
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Kim Mahood takes us back to the Australian Outback of her youth. In this award-winning memoir, she explores her relationship with her father, her art and the places where she grew up, examining how a settler population relates to history and to land.
Meet Me in the In-Between by Bella Pollen
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Interwoven with exquisite passages of graphic memoir, Meet Me in the In-Between is bestselling author Bella Pollen's surprisingly tender, frequently funny and achingly poignant quest to keep on looking for the extraordinary in an ordinary life. Growing up the middle child of transatlantic parents, Bella ...Show more
Not Your Average Nurse: From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary Career by Maggie Groff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
To a young girl the life of a student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it's never easy. So when Maggie Groff defies her parents' wishes and embarks as a student nurse at London's King's College Hospital, she must quickly get to grips with the demands of her chosen career. It's ...Show more
Romulus, My Father: Text Classics by Raimond Gaita
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Romulus Gaita fled Yugoslavia aged thirteen, and came to Australia with his wife and their son soon after World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary and moving tale to tell of growing up with his father in country Victoria. Romulus, My Father is t ...Show more
Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love by Mark Raphael Baker
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
One minute my wife was there. In a flash she was gone. In the ten months of Kerryn's dying, I prepared myself for everything except for her death. Now that she is gone, I am desperate to know her as I never knew her. Thirty Days is a portrait of grief, of a marriage and of a family. It is the moving mem ...Show more
Miracles Do Happen by Fela;Rosenbloom Rosenbloom
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1933, a 10-year-old Jewish girl, Fela Perelman, befriended a new family that had moved into her street in Lodz, Poland. There were three children in the Rozenblum family - Rose, Felix, and Maria. Fela and Rose became best friends, while Felix kept his distance. Five years later, Fela and Felix discov ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sand Eel by Will Millard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank whiling away the day catching fish. As he grew older his competitive urge to catch more and bigger fish led him away from that natural connection between him, his grandfath ...Show more
One Halal of a Story by Sam Dastyari
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
As in life, Sam Dastyari?s memoir is unexpected and unorthodox. This is the man who introduced Pauline Hanson to the halal snack pack and accountability to big banks.Named Sahand by his hippy Iranian parents, he changed his name to Sam to fit in with his schoolmates. But Sam was always going to stand ou ...Show more
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This insightful and accessible new biography of Alfred Deakin, Australia's second prime minister, shines fresh light on one of the nation's most significant figures. It brings out from behind the image of a worthy, bearded father of federation the gifted, passionate and intriguing man whose contribution ...Show more
The Art of Flight by Fredrik Sjöberg
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years old, I spent a whole night singing romantic songs in the top of a pine tree. ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Being a copper?s son, I?ve always got one eye out for trouble. I can?t help it. But I don?t go looking for it anymore.?In Tim Winton?s fiction, chaos shapes the lives of his characters. So too Winton?s own life. The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind the Curtaintake us be ...Show more
Unbreakable: Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope by Jane Caro
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Every woman has a story of survival. In this revealingly honest collection, successful Australian women talk about the challenges they have overcome, from sexual assault and domestic violence to racism, miscarriage, and depression. While delving deep into these experiences and their personal cost, the c ...Show more