Prehistoric Joy by Andrew Sneddon
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Hailed as a real-life Boy Swallows Universe, a 'bold, brutal and unforgettable' memoir of growing up in the criminal underbelly of Queensland's Gold Coast in the 1980s.If being powerless makes you jumpy, then being poor makes you envious. You notice when other people are happy and you become keenly awar ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
Love, Dad: Confessions of an Anxious Father by Laurie Steed
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
A must-read for all parents, Love, Dad explores what it means to be a father in the twenty-first century.The father of two young boys, Laurie reflects on how his own experiences have defined the kind of man he is and the kind of parent he would like to become. His stories - triumphant, funny and sad - d ...Show more
Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country by Ryan Cropp
$37.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could changeIn the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity ...Show more
The Great Race: 60 years of the Bathurst 1000 by Aaron Noonan
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
The cars, the stars, the thrills and the spills from 60 years of the Bathurst classic by Australia's premier motorsports journalist with a foreword by five-time winner Garth Tander The Bathurst 1000 is undoubtedly Australia's 'Great Race', forever part of the sporting fabric of the nation. The 1000-kilo ...Show more
No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works (and why you should care) by Sam Koslowski, Zara Seidler
$35.00 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Understand the news stories that matter. Be part of the important conversations. And feel confident - whether you're walking into a date, a work event or a voting booth. From the creators of the phenomenally successful news service The Daily Aus comes your ultimate playbook for how the world works.Do yo ...Show more
Purple Threads: First Nations Classics by Jeanine Leane, Evelyn Araluen
$19.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai.Growing up in the shifting landscape of Gundagai with her Nan and Aunties, Sunny spends her days playing on the hills near their farmhouse and he ...Show more
Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
$29.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. WINNER OF THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more
Unravelling Us by RENEE MCBRYDE
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
In 2017 Renee McBryde published her best-selling memoir in which she learned she was daughter of a convicted murderer, a secret she was made to keep by her mother, shrouding her childhood and early adulthood. In Unravelling Us, Renee delves into the most important relationship in her life, her mother, w ...Show more
Banks (PB) by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Lust, science, adventure -- Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery The extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped b ...Show more
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager: Life in the Outback and a Whole Lot More by Sally Warriner
$36.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to Australia’s far nort ...Show more
Red Herrings for Breakfast by Annabet Ousback
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
This beautiful and poignant memoir traces the lives of Annabet and Anders Ousback, who grew up in seemingly idyllic conditions in a boat shed in Balmoral. Annabet grew up to be a fashion and clothing designer and manufacturer and Anders became a world recognised chef and was largely responsible for deve ...Show more