Albanese: Telling It Straight by Karen Middleton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Anthony Albanese has been at the heart of Labor politics in Australia for a decade. For the previous decade he persistently worked to ensure that the Labor left was a vital part of all ALP activities. This is his story. The turbulent years of federal politics with a deeply personal dimension, this is th ...Show more
Aussie Ark by Tim Faulkner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Tim Faulkner's battle to save Australia's threatened wildlife - a fully illustrated biography featuring stories and lessons from a remarkable life on the frontline of animal conservation. From the time he was old enough to focus on an object, Tim Faulkner has had his eyes glued on things that slither, c ...Show more
Vegemite: The True Story of the Man Who Invented an Australian Icon by Jamie Callister
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Published to coincide with Vegemite's 100th anniversary, the fascinating true story of the man who invented Australia's most enduring cultural icon, fully revised and updated. 'An amazing yarn' Sydney Morning Herald Today Vegemite is recognised around the world, but when the salty black paste was first ...Show more
The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
On 2 September 2008, in a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second decision that would change his life. His display of extraordinary courage that day saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the first Australian to receive our highest award for braver ...Show more
Two Cultures, One Story by Robert Isaacs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'I stood at the school gates with nothing but the clothes on my back. I had no money, no family, no home — nothing to show for the past 16 years except my cheap cardboard suitcase and a reasonable grasp of reading, writing and arithmetic … I didn't know what I was going to do next, but I knew that whate ...Show more
How to Get There by Maggie MacKellar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
After Maggie Mackellar's acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of settling there. In 2011 Maggie Mackellar moved from her family's farm in Central West New South Wales to the east coast ...Show more
Women of Note: The Rise of Women Compose by Rosalind Appleby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
In the early twentieth century being a female composer was a dangerous game; one composer was diagnosed as mentally insane by her psychiatrist husband, several achieved success only after their divorces and often the only way to get their music published was to lie about their gender. Still, the allure ...Show more
Women of the Land: Eight rural women and their remarkable everyday lives by Liz Harfull
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Making your living from the land in Australia is not for the faint-hearted. Isolation, hard physical work, long hours and the vagaries of drought, floods and fire make it a challenging environment for any farmer. But how do you cope when you are a woman in what is traditionally a man's world? Women of t ...Show more
Michael Kirby: Law, Love & Life by Daryl Dellora
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
For most of his life, Michael Kirby has been a man on a tightrope. A person of strong views working in a world governed by objectivity, he has had to balance the potent, sometimes contradictory impulses of passion and duty, honesty and discretion, advocacy and neutrality. He had to hide his real self fr ...Show more
Missing Christopher by Jayne Newling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Christopher was 17 and he had everything to live for. He was smart, charismatic, loving, and deeply loved, and a champion rugby player. Yet behind the veneer of a popular and confident athlete he was struggling. Diagnosed a year earlier with depression and severe anxiety, he hid his fears from family an ...Show more
Reservoir Dad by Clint Greagen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'If David Sedaris had got married and had kids, he would have been Reservoir Dad. Fall-on-the-floor funny, sharp, witty and just a little bit sexy...' Best Australian Blog 2013 judge Kerri Sackville sums up the feelings of the legions of fans of Reservoir Dad, aka Clint Greagen, a stay-at-home dad who t ...Show more