Helena Rubinstein: The Australian Years by Angus Trumble
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behind This meticulously researched and wryly entertaining portrait of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) focuses on the years she spent in Australia as a young woman, recoveri ...Show more
I'd Rather Not by Robert Skinner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"I was sleeping in what might reasonably be described as a ditch, though I tried not to think of it in those terms for morale reasons … " Robert Skinner arrives in the city, searching for a richer life. Things begin badly and then, surprisingly, get slightly worse. Pretty soon he’s sleeping rough and t ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress.Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's family. A h ...Show more
Everything and Nothing by Heather Mitchell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A powerful, immersive and intimately candid memoir exploring the light and shade that co-exist in love, family and the arts, from esteemed Australian stage and screen actor Heather Mitchell. Behind the scenes, Heather Mitchell's real life has taken many remarkable twists and turns. Training an unflinch ...Show more
Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land (h/B) by Maggie MacKellar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. In Graft, Maggie MacKellar describes a year on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life – and death – th ...Show more
Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent? As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her husband's a ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more
Drink Against Drunkenness - The Life and Times of Sasha Soldatow by Inez Baranay
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Biography of Sasha Soldatow (1947-2006): anarchist, activist, artist, and unforgettable personality. Born in Germany to a Russian family that emigrated to Australia when he was two, Sasha grew up in Melbourne then moved to Sydney, attracted by its anarchist tradition and new underground radical publishi ...Show more
Pearls - Wisdom from the Women of New South Wales by Angela Schaffer; Liz Schaffer (Editor)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Pearls is a series of intimate, face to face interviews with a broad spectrum of women across NSW. Taking two years to complete, the author and her journalist daughter travelled over 12,000 km criss-crossing the state in search of both remarkable and everyday stories from a vibrant cast of curious, crea ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Following on from last year's Yellow Notebook, Helen Garner's much-anticipated second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore th ...Show more
A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening by Ashleigh Wilson
$45.00 AUD
A must-have for culture lovers, A Year with Wendy Whiteley sees the biographer and critic Ashleigh Wilson painting a portrait of the inimitable Wendy Whiteley-in her own words. We sit at the table, opposite each other, a tape recorder and a microphone between us, and I begin by saying that I don't want ...Show more
Bohemian Negligence by Bertie Blackman
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The celebrated musician's evocative and intimate memoir of the magic and vulnerability of her bohemian childhood growing up as the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman. If you could touch your memories, how would they feel? My first memory of life is blurry. A blurry red dot. A strawberry in a thi ...Show more