A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back by David Hallberg
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as "the most exciting male dancer in the western world," presents a look at his artistic life--up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury th ...Show more
Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: near fine
It's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan.In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class Bo ...Show more
Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History by Mandy Sayer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present. Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant history of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with the roots of R ...Show more
Beverley Brock: Life to the Limit by Beverley Brock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
After enduring more than her fair share of ups and down u including the heartbreaking public separation from racing-car legend Peter Brock, and the messy legal battle that left her flat broke u Bev continues to celebrate life with inimitable wit, warmth, honesty and optimism. Life to the Limit is her st ...Show more
Mezza Italiana: An Enchanting Story About Love, Family, La Dolce Vita and Finding Your Place in the World by Zoe Boccabella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Growing up in Brisbane in the 1970s and 80s, Zoe Boccabella knew if you wanted to fit in, you did not bottle tomatoes, have plastic on the hallway carpet or a glory box of Italian linens. Though she tried to be like 'everyone else', refusing to learn Italian and even dyeing her dark hair blonde, Zoe cou ...Show more
In Love and War by Liz Byrski
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the aftermath of the Battle of Britain, airmen filled a small town where pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe established revolutionary surgical and therapeutic treatments. For the child Liz Byrski, growing up in East Grinstead, the burnt faces of these airmen filled her nightmares. In her la ...Show more
The Love That Remains: An extraordinary memoir about secrets, life's shocking twists and unconditional love by Susan Francis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
How could I write about the importance of truth and not tell the whole truth myself? After twenty years spent searching for her biological parents, 52-year-old Susan Hull unexpectedly meets the great love of her life - a goldminer named Wayne Francis. He is a gentle giant of a man, who promises Susan th ...Show more
Natural Born Keller by Amanda Keller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Before I had children I thought motherhood would turn me into a cross between Mother Theresa and Edmund Hilary - noble, heroic, good-hearted and selfless. Yeah right. For better or worse, I'm still me...Hilarious and often moving, Natural Born Keller is the story of Amanda Keller's life from her childho ...Show more
Our Vietnam Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From the bestselling author of Bush Nurses and Nurses of the Outback comes this collection of compelling and moving stories of our heroic nurses in the Vietnam War Being a nurse always requires a cool head, a steady hand and an open heart. But if you're working in a war zone, the challenges are much har ...Show more
Inseparable Elements: Dame Mary Durack by Patsy Millett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Dame Mary Durack AC DBE, born to the heritage of a pioneering family, has long been recognised as one of Australia's great literary figures. Inseperable Elements- Dame Mary Durack by Patsy Millett is a daughter's perspective of her mother's life.Dame Mary Durack Miller was born into a pastoral legacy th ...Show more
Lambs of God by Marele Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The classic and bestselling Australian novel, soon to be a major TV miniseries. SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV MINISERIES. 'marvellous' - The New York Times. The flock of nuns and the flock of sheep had been together for so long that the sheep, if they had enough brains to consider the matter at all, thought of ...Show more
Diamonds and Dust by Sheryl McCorry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Sheryl McCorry grew up in Arnhem Land carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell. When she was 18, Broome beckoned, and it was there that - only hours after being railroaded into marriage by a fast-talking Yank - she locked eyes with Bob McCorry, a drover and buffalo shooter. When her marriage ende ...Show more