Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land (h/B) by Maggie MacKellar
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Biography
In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. In Graft, Maggie MacKellar describes a year on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life – and death – th ...Show more
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (First Nations Classics) by Doris (Nugi Garimara) Pilkington
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Biography | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
A Stolen Generations story of astounding courage- three Aboriginal girls, taken from their mothers, escape barefoot back to their beloved homeland in East Pilbara.This is the true account of Nugi Garimara's mother, Molly, made legendary by the film Rabbit-Proof Fence. In 1931 Molly led her two sisters o ...Show more
Broke: A story about love, when love is all you have by Sam Drummond
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
A memoir about downward mobility, disability and hope. In Broke, lawyer and disability advocate Sam Drummond weaves a poignant, stirring and deeply humane tale of life on the fringes.
Loud by Tana Douglas
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Biography | Reading Level: very good
What goes on tour stays on tour - unless you're the the first woman roadie in the world At just fifteen, Tana Douglas ran away to the circus that was rock 'n' roll in the 1970s, taking a job with a young and upcoming band called AC/DC. While still a teenager she headed to the UK and later the US to wor ...Show more
The Beatles: Get Back by The Beatles
$80.00 AUD
Category: New Biography
The book opens in January 1969, the beginning of The Beatles' last year as a band. The Beatles (the White Album) is at number one in the charts and the foursome gather in London for a new project. Over 21 days, first at Twickenham Film Studios and then at their own brand-new Apple Studios, with cameras ...Show more
Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir by Catherine Gildiner
$26.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
Cathy is rarely out of trouble whether it's asking why seeing Elvis below the waist is a sin, stabbing the school bully with a compass, breaking through police cordons to interview the Tuscadora Indians or swapping holy water for vodka to test the local priest's alcoholism. She even delivers Nembutal to ...Show more
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World by Michelle Scott Tucker
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any 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 too ...Show more
A Touch of India: Chutney Mary, Charming Irregularities and an Unlikely Romance by Valerie Britton-Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
In A Touch of India, Valerie Britton-Wilson discovers the challenges and charms of modern India whilst uncovering the life of her mother Pearl, a young Anglo-Indian woman growing up in end-of-Empire Bombay.Pearl was a journalist with the Times of India in the 1940s who unexpectedly fell in love with a b ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Biography | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
Lisa: THE INSPIRING #1 BESTSELLING MEMOIR by Lisa Curry
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Biography | Reading Level: 06
The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple Olympian and wellness entrepreneur Lisa Curry has lived her life in the public eye for four decades. In this very personal memoir, she shares the untold story of being Lisa. A swimming protegee who became o ...Show more
Walking with Ghosts - A Memoir by Gabriel Byrne
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
A highly anticipated memoir by Gabriel Byrne, the award-winning star of over 80 films, Walking with Ghosts is an exquisite portrait of an Irish childhood and a remarkable journey to Hollywood and Broadway success. "Make no mistake about it: Walking with Ghosts is a masterpiece. A book that will wring o ...Show more
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
Acclaimed biographer Sebba offers the first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the 20th century--and one of the most talked about women of her generation.