Hard Times by Jack Mercer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the spirit of A B Facey's 'A Fortunate Life', Jack Mercer's 'Hard Times' is the true story of the author's amazing adventures. In 1911, growing up in an Ararat pub, he faces the terror of a violent stepfather and a mother who barely acknowledges his existence. But one thing keeps him sane: a plan to ...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
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
Boganaire: the rise and fall of Nathan Tinkler by Paddy Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
Hunter Valley electrician Nathan Tinkler borrowed big to turn a fortune from a speculative coal play, bursting onto the rich list in 2008 and quickly becoming Australia's youngest billionaire at the age of 35. Tinkler was emblem of both Australia's new aspirational classes and its once-in-a-generation r ...Show more
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
Sheila: The Australian Beauty who Bewitched British Society by Robert Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
She wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for 40 years, and died a Russian princessAs a child Sheila Chisholm chased kangaroos on horseback and swam with sharks at Bondi Beach. As a young woman she nursed sold ...Show more
Was it Something I Said? : Misadventures in Suburbia by Ros Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Whether writing about her foiled attempt to seduce her husband, the homesick Irishman she found on the beach or why dog-people and cat-people can never be friends, Ros Thomas does so with the kind of humour and clarity that keeps her readers coming back week after week. These stories are for anyone who ...Show more
Run for Your Life by Jill Joliffe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Forced into adoption and taken in by a violent household, the course of Jill Jolliffe's life was set before she had time to choose. She ran away as a teen and has been running ever since. Jolliffe became a thorn in the establishment's side and earned herself a hefty ASIO file in the process. Following h ...Show more
SAS Insider: An Elite SAS Fighter on Life in Australia's Toughest and Most Secretive Combat Unit by Clint Palmer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS. As a bus ...Show more
ASBESTOS HOUSE by HAIGH GIDEON
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century- asbestos. Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie built itself ...Show more
Never, Um, Ever Ending Story by Molly Meldrum
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1974 Ian 'Molly' Meldrum was working as a record producer and music journalist when he was offered the chance to host a new music show called 'Countdown'. It was a show that would run for the next thirteen years and become one of the most-loved and most-watched programs on Australian television. It a ...Show more
Kitty's War: The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton by Janet Butler
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Kitty’s War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same Victorian district of drystone walls, wheatfields and meandering creeks, except many decades apart. The idea of this young nurse setting out ...Show more