What I Learned Along the Way by Dawn Fraser
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Our Dawn is a champion. She is one of only three swimmers ever to have won gold in the same event in three consecutive Olympics, and in 1999, she was named the World's Greatest Living Female Water Sports Champion. She's been a rule-breaker, a record-breaker, and Australian of the Year - and she's learne ...Show more
Mayor of MacDougal Street - A Memoir by Dave Van Ronk
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the '60s, he was also a marvelous storyteller, a peerle ...Show more
Queen Bee of Tuscany: the Redoubtable Janet Ross by Ben Downing
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An engrossing examination of a fascinating woman and her irresistible world Ben Downing's "Queen Bee of Tuscany" brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and wen ...Show more
Karen Green - Bough Down
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
With fearlessness and grace, "Bough Down" reports from deep inside the maelstrom of grief. In this profoundly beautiful and intensely moving lament, artist and writer Karen Green conjures the inscrutable space of love and loss, clarity and contradiction, sense and madness. She summons memory and the mac ...Show more
The Bucket: Memories of an Inattentive Childhood by Allan Ahlberg
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The Bucket by Allan Ahlberg is the enthralling childhood story of one of Britain's best-loved children's authors. 'My mother, who was not my mother, I see her now, her raw red cleaner's hands twisting away at her apron as she struggled to speak. Adoption was a shameful business then in many people's eye ...Show more
Wild Tales by Graham Nash
$45.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Graham Nash, lead singer and principal songwriter of the Hollies, then member of supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, made the incredible and possibly unique journey from 60s Manchester to Swinging London to sunny California. And along the way he created many of the iconic songs which defined a ...Show more
Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson by David Day
$32.95 AUD
Category: Historical
For many decades there has only been one published first-hand account of Mawson's expedition - the one written and orchestrated by Mawson himself. Only recently have alternative accounts become publicly available. In this compelling and revealing new book, David Day draws upon all this new evidence as w ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man by Margaret Simons
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Plucked from an orphanage as an infant, Kerry Stokes grew up in the slums and streets of post-Depression Melbourne with his itinerant, adoptive parents. As a boy he trapped, skinned and sold rabbits to make ends meet, and seemed destined to a life of hardship and poverty. Today Stokes is one of Australi ...Show more
Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family by Gabrielle Carey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets. As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan's childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter sets in motion a literary pilgrimage that reveals long-buried family secrets. Like her mother, Stow had gro ...Show more
Twiggy : The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forrest by Andrew Burrell
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The swashbuckling West Australian entrepreneur Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest took on mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto at their own game - and won. In this unauthorised biography, Andrew Burrell traces Twiggy's business triumphs and disasters to reveal the complicated man behind the myth. Why do his mi ...Show more
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3 by Christopher Isherwood
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, Christopher Isherwood journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation. In this final volume of his diaries, ...Show more
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus by Stephen Dando-Collins
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical
May 27, 2015 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes. After he died, the London Times described him as 'a colonial colossus.' Henry Parkes received little schooling and worked on a rope-walk, breaking stones, as an ivory and bone turner, ironmonger, labourer and on the wharves befo ...Show more