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Kitty’s War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton.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
Life in the Saddle by Alwyn Torenbeek
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'It doesn't matter if there are four thousand people watching or just four - you're a horseman, roughrider, entertainer. At that moment, rodeo has you bitten and it doesn't let you go. You just want another ride. I remember them all and how it all started.'Alwyn Torenbeek's - the Kokotunga Kid - left hi ...Show more
Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Frank and funny, this memoir vividly recounts the first 17 years of the author's life in Sydney's slums and in New South Wales' countryside. Abandoned by her mother as a baby and by her volatile grandmother as a young girl, Kate Howarth was shunted between Aboriginal relatives and expected to grow up fa ...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
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
'Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!' When Kat ...Show more
Running Like China by Sophie Hardcastle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'When I was eleven years old Mum told me, "One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name." Even before I heard these words I was always a child who crammed intense joy into tiny pockets of time.' One day Sophie Hardcastle realised the joy she'd always known had disappeared. She was co ...Show more
Fighter by Paul Warren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Paul 'Warlord' Warren was an Australian Muay Thai kick-boxing champion who was used to the physically punishing world of martial arts at its highest level. But nothing could prepare him for the torment he would face in the Australian army. One month after he arrived in Afghanistan as a soldier in the AD ...Show more
Henry and Banjo by James Knight
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Today most of us know that Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson were famous writers. We know about Matilda, Clancy of the Overflow and the Man from Snowy River; The Drover's Wife, While the Billy Boils and Joe Wilson and his mates, but little else. Here, in a compelling and engaging work, James Knig ...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
A Cook's Life by Stephanie Alexander
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When Stephanie Alexander, AO, opened Stephanie's Restaurant in 1976, it quickly became part of Melbourne food folklore, permanently raising the bar for restaurant dining in Australia. As a restaurateur, Stephanie championed small, local suppliers and also grew her own fresh produce. In 1996, her seminal ...Show more