Nora Heysen: A Portrait by Anne-Louise Willoughby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Hahndorf artist Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and Australia's first female painter to be appointed as an official war artist. A portraitist and a flower painter, Nora Heysen's life was defined by an all-consuming drive to draw and paint. In 1989, aged 78, Nora re-emerged on ...Show more
The Sunday Story Club by Kerry Cue; Doris Brett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cry. But the salons have given me the opportunity to look back and think about my life . . . I don't talk to anyone about these feelings outside of the salon.' A book club without books. A key to the stories we all carry within us - wrenching, redemptive, extraordinary, lace ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier - a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the Daintree coast of far north Queensland, where he was adopted by the local Aborigines for 17 years - as a full member of the tribe, and had a family. He was then in effect kidnapped and returned to Franc ...Show more
Aussie Midwives by Fiona McArthur
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Being present as the midwife at a baby's birth is one of life's glorious adventures.' Nineteen Australian midwives share their incredible stories with passionate midwife and bestselling author Fiona McArthur. Midwives play a vital role in supporting women through some of the most challenging and rewardi ...Show more
The Cost of Bravery by Allan Sparkes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'I was Humpty Dumpty at the bottom of the wall, my heart and the very soul of me shattered into a thousand pieces. I knew that my life was never going to be the same again. I also knew that if I did not get professional help, I'd soon be dead.' Allan Sparkes didn't think twice about rescuing an 11-year- ...Show more
Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Tony Kelly, Rebecca Lister
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When Rebecca Lister and Tony Kelly move from Melbourne to Mount Isa to care for Rebecca's elderly mother, Diana, they have no idea what they've signed up for. The isolation, sweltering heat and limited employment opportunities make settling into the mining town a challenge. While Rebecca deals with her ...Show more
Heart of Australia: A Celebration of Community Spirit by Nick Rains
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Nick Rains has photographed people and places across Australia for over 35 years, and in that time he's met people from many different walks of life - people living in remote or rural communities, coastal or urban dwellers, Indigenous Australians, battlers or those who are just plain strange. But the pe ...Show more
An Ordinary Life by Luke Pomery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When the author was just 9 years old, he and his mother took an epic bus journey to his new home — a 450,000 acre sheep station outside of Meekatharra, just south of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. It was here where the achingly hard work of helping to run a sheep station began until he wa ...Show more
Rewilding the Urban Soul: searching for the wild in the city by Claire Dunn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
We're a famously nature-loving nation, yet 86 per cent of Australians call the city home. Amid the concrete and the busyness, how can we also answer the call of the wild?Once upon a time, a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Yet love and the possibil ...Show more
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey through Memory by Mark Raphael Baker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
What right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; it is the story of a son who enters his parents' memories and, inside the darkness, fin ...Show more
Happy As: Stories of summer, childhood and the magic of family by Larry Emdur
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Larry Emdur is one of Australia's most popular and enduring TV personalities. Happy As is a memoir of becoming Larry. Long before the game shows and morning TV, Larry Emdur was just Larry, a cheeky kid from Bondi who grew up paddling round the kiddies' pool on a foam surfboard, and rocking a safari suit ...Show more
A Bigger Picture: With new foreword by Malcolm Turnbull
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In A Bigger Picture, the bestselling political memoir of 2020, Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's 29th prime minister, tells the remarkable story of his life. Now in paperback, this edition is updated with an all-new foreword by the author that sheds light on the huge political and cultural changes happening ...Show more