Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Ever since I was thirteen years old, all I wanted to do was perform. It was an unusual dream for a kid from the Northern Territory to have ... what I wanted for my life was a world away from what people knew and loved about the "Top End". Even though I've moved south to become an actor, the Territory h ...Show more
Outback Women's Stories by Paul Bugeja
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The word "amazon" generally conjures up images of wild and powerful warrior women, fighting off foes in some primitive matriarchal society where they rule over men who have been subverted to more menial roles. Outback Women's Stories is a compilation of significant Australian women of simple but importa ...Show more
My Adventurous Life by Dick Smith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
ABIA 2022 Biography Book of the Year Entrepreneur, adventurer, philanthropist ... Australian icon Dick Smith shares his extraordinary life story for the first time. 'Part Bear Grylls, part Bill Gates, but 100% Aussie larrikin. Dick is a great innovator, philanthropist and adventurer, who in my eyes can ...Show more
Tsunami and the Single Girl: One Woman's Journey to Become an Aid Worker and Find Love by Krissy Nicholson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Set in humanitarian disaster zones around the world, Tsunami and the Single Girl is the story of Krissy Nicholson's journey to become an aid worker and her (seemingly) never-ending search to find a soul mate. As a free-spirited traveller, Krissy - now almost thirty - needs her life to start taking shape ...Show more
The Family Law by Benjamin Law
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: Why won't his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Teaching Stories by Bill Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Great Australian Stories
From beyond the black stump to the Australian Alps; in schools on stations, missions, mines and over the air, it takes a special kind of person to be an outback teacher. Back then, not only did we have to teach the three Rs but also sewing, arts and craft, music, physical education - you name it. Plus t ...Show more
Elizabeth MacArthur: A Life at the Edge of the World by Michelle Scott Tucker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1788 a young woman raised in an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In an Austen novel that would be the end of the story, but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning. John Macarthur is credited with establis ...Show more
Miss Franklin: How Miles Franklin's brilliant career began by Libby Hathorn, Phil Lesnie
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 7 Kids Picture Books
A fascinating story about Miles Franklin, one of Australian literature's most significant women written by one of the biggest names in children's literature. This is a story about iconic Australian writer Stella Miles Franklin, namesake of two major literary prizes, during her brief but formative time ...Show more
Beneath the Surface by Libby Trickett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The brave and inspiring memoir of one of Australian Swimming's Golden Girls, whose extraordinary achievements masked her private battles with anxiety and depression.
The War Diaries Of Weary Dunlop: Java And The Burma - Thailand Railway 1942-1945 by E.E. Dunlop, Edward E Dunlop
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to o ...Show more
(OE)Georgiana Molloy: The Mind that Shines by Bernice Barry
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
AUSTRALIAN. In 1829, estranged from her family and living in an isolated Scottish village, Georgiana Kennedy made a sudden decision to marry Captain John Molloy of the Rifle Brigade, a handsome hero with a mysterious past. They emigrated immediately to the remote southwest of Western Australiawith the f ...Show more
Talking Sideways by Malcolm Reg; McKinnon Dodd
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 3
'That's the way it is with us mob. We were brought up to talk kind of sideways. That's the respectful, true Aboriginal way.' Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering South Australia's Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has ...Show more