We're All Going to Die (Especially Me) by Joel Meares
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
My late twenties have felt like a series of slow-motion epiphanies, each one sneaking up before slapping me in my newly acquired jowls. Everything I said I'd do 'by the time I'm thirty' as a glassy-eyed graduate is now in the 'by the time I'm forty' box. Much has been made of the delayed adulthood of Ge ...Show more
Mannix (HB) by Brenda Niall
$50.00 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 d ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!' When Kat ...Show more
Daughter of the Territory by Jacqueline Hammar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline's childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin. With the outbreak of World War Two, she moved to Brisbane to finish her education. Returning to her be ...Show more
An Eye for Eternity, the Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Manning Clark was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna's compelling biography of this giant of Australia's cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark's extensive private letters, journals and diaries-many that have never been read before. An Eye for Eternity paints a sweeping ...Show more
I'm Very into You - Correspondence 1995--1996 by Kathy Acker
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Semiotext (E)
"Why am I telling you all this? Partly 'cause the whole queerness/identity thing for me stretches through everything, absolutely everything. Slipping between straight/gay is child's play compared to slipping between writer/teacher/influence-peddler whatever. I forget who I am. You reminded me of who I p ...Show more
Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time by Robert Dixon
$42.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Alex Miller: the ruin of time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels.
Hello Beautiful - Scenes from a Life by Hannie Rayson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"I realise that, despite all the references to my longing to be a writer, two things are apparent. The first is that I don't actually do much writing; the second is that my teenage reflections display absolutely no talent for it. My Diary is prima facie evidence of self-delusion on a grand scale." A mem ...Show more
Water Diviner by Andrew Anastasios
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is not a war novel, not even an anti-war novel. Instead it focuses on the battles that go on inside the hearts and minds of a small group of Australians and Turks as they struggle to bury their dead and rebuild their lives after the First World War. The story is based on first-hand resources, diari ...Show more
Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out - accompanied by her nine-year-old daught ...Show more
Murder of Allison Baden-Clay by David Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
It began with a phone call to Brisbane police on 20 April 2012. Allison, wife of real-estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay, was missing. When investigating officers arrived at the family home, in one of the city's wealthiest suburbs, a neatly dressed Gerard had been getting the couple's three daughters ready ...Show more
Carla Zampatti - My Life, My Look by Carla Zampatti
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The compelling story behind a fascinating Australian legend - fashion designer Carla Zampatti. Carla Zampatti is an enduring Australian fashion icon. In 2015, in a remarkable feat of longevity, she'll be celebrating the 50th anniversary of her fashion house in Australia. And despite the fact that so man ...Show more